Monday 9th December 2024
Dear Centre Members, Aligned HDR Colleagues, and Allied Members,
This week we welcome new allied members – Kathie Ardzejewska and Jane Merewether (both from Edith Cowan University). Along with Sandra Wooltorton (The University of Notre Dame – Australia) and David Rousell (RMIT) they are part of the group who are leading the appreciative inquiry called “Culturally Regenerative Universities”. The CRF will be participating in this project and we are looking forward to designing and conducting our own appreciative inquiry next year.
Jo is back (YAY) and we are now in full planning mode for 2025. If you have some ideas and suggestions please email the CRF inbox regeneratingfutures@deakin.edu.au. We will take nominations for diverse ideas for our Futures Forum – these might be colleagues you know or would like to hear from. They could be internationally located or here as visiting scholars… or they might be locals doing great work and you think CRF members need to know what is happening.
We will also take suggestions for Regenerators – we intend to focus on capacity building around the Deakin Achieve and promotion process at Deakin as well as focussing on funding proposal development (long term) while also holding space for discussions about WAM / research management.
We are planning to host another Warrnambool Retreat this year… and would love to invite you to be a part of the planning team. Yes – this one will be planned by committee. We will host an On Country event connected to this and we will also connect to the Hycel team in Warrnambool again too (and hopefully enjoy their very fancy new facilities on campus).
We have many suggestions for our On Country events and look forward to introducing them as these plans firm up. Strand events will continue as our strands strengthen in their focus and practice.
Next weeks newsletter will be our final one for the year (46 newsletters across 2024) – it will showcase our developing plans and the outcomes of our On Country day this coming week.
This week we host our 5th On Country event (but really our 6th as the one in February was planned initially for 2023 and needed to be rescheduled). We are excited to be connecting with the Critical Forest Collaboratory and many international colleagues to meet and spend time exploring in Sherbrooke Forest – near Kallista. The day begins at 10am and ends at 3pm. Lunch is at Corks on Cooks Corner! The weather will be cool and perfect for forest bathing! Come along and enjoy a year end experience that has the possibility of being highly research productive.
Please Note the Enabler mini reports – these were included to provide you with inspiration to plan to use this fund source next year. You have one more week to take up the Goal Setter strategy – take a mentor out to lunch (and claim the refund). Be sure to discuss your plans to use the Enabler in the Goal Setting.
This newsletter also contains some great ideas and resources as we prepare for our end of year break. The Longtime Academy, a great climate related book, and the Climate Councils tricky conversations support (essential for Chrissy family events), and then some Parks Victoria and Melbourne Museum opportunities for the break. Go camping for free – but be prepared, plan well, and focus on rejuvenating.
We hope to see you this week at our On Country day – the event will be “zoomed” and maybe recorded….
Best wishes
Peta and Jo