Rochester Changemaker Workshop

Are you passionate about your community?

Do you want to make change happen in your community?

Join us for a two-day Changemaker Workshop – Rochester

13–14 March 2025 // 8.30am – 4.30pm
Rochester Community House
43/45 MacKay Street, Rochester, VIC

Join a network of changemakers across rural, regional & remote Australia

• As a collective, delve into your region’s readiness for change.
• Explore how change happens, practise how to adapt to change and how to overcome resistance.
• Become a changemaker, adapt your skills to enable your involvement in creating new and exciting things, managing setbacks and work collectively and purposefully with others.

Take part in diverse community conversations

• Understand the local ecosystem; undertake purposeful and inclusive engagement; step into informed and authentic conversations.
• Learn how to have those conversations, suspend judgement and assumptions, and build trust and transparency for connection and diverse relationships.

Create momentum within your community

• Unpack what forms and shapes a community.
• Learn how a community can be more inclusive.
• Considering the impacts of drought, trauma, and other events, gain the tools to better support others and balance giving and taking within a community.

Contribute to and inspire your community’s future

• Explore ideas to shape the future you would like to see for your community.
• Understand the importance of language and the power of storytelling in motivating and mobilising others.
• Learn what makes a good story and how to connect with the hearts and minds of others.

This workshop is fully subsidised with thanks to the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. It is delivered by the Australian Rural Leadership

Foundation, as part of the Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative.

Note: This is a face-to-face workshop. All catering and stationery provided. Registrations close either when fully booked or 7 days before the workshop. For more information visit rural-leaders.org.au or contact:

Gemma Rostron
0421 031 418
[email protected]

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When

Location

Rochester Community House, 43 Mackay Street, Rochester, 3561, View Map