Three Leadership Gardens
An Indigenous Australian Framework for Multicultural Leadership by Mark Yettica-Paulson
The Three Leadership Gardens seeks to address some key learning areas for practitioners arising from Deep Collaboration and for those who work in the spaces of leadership development that involves First Nations and other multicultural Australians.
Mark Yettica-Paulson is an Australian Indigenous and First Nations expert in leadership and facilitation, with over 30 years of experience in cross cultural dialogue. Learn more about Mark’s extensive work at www.supernativeunlimited.
Supporting Frameworks
The Three Leadership Gardens is based on three foundational pillars or conceptual frameworks:
1. Deep Collaboration
2. The Intercultural Framework, and
3. The Bundjalung practice of Banaam and Gogaun.
Leadership Learning Circles
Using Deep Collaboration practices, we will hold separate leadership learning circles for First Nations practitioners and non-indigenous Australian practitioners.
Each circle will be co-facilitated in a Banaam role by myself and another facilitator from that respective cohort. Additionally, each learning circle will also have a male and female senior practitioner to take up a Gogaun role.
Each learning circle will have a topic for preparation reflections and to arrive ready for dialogue. The discussions will gather insights and learning to bring into the combined middle space.
The seperate learning circles will alternate and be set to occur between the Combined middle space learning circles. in the Combined middle space learning circles we shall collate our learning for dissemination to others wanting to improve their knowledge and understanding of living and working across differences with a specific reference to working alongside First Nations.
Artwork Story
A Leadership Garden as a concept is not an original idea. There have been others who have made the link between the attributes of good gardeners and good leaders. There have also been others who have utilised the metaphor of gardens to demonstrate the nurturning discipline of leadership to grow others and oneself in leadership.
In this project, I seek to use the metaphor of Three Leadership Gardens to signify the cultivated, curated, and cared for space where practitioners come together, discuss their leadership challenges, and learn with and from each other.
