Three Leadership Gardens -
An Intercultural Leadership Dialogue
Australian First Nations
Combined Middle Space
Settler Australian
A New Path for Leadership Development
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 in partnership and collaboration with Settler Australians.
Supporting Frameworks
The Three Leadership Gardens is based on three foundational pillars or conceptual frameworks: Collaboration for Impact’s Deep Collaboration, Mark Yettica-Paulson’s Intercultural Framework, and the Bundjalung practice of Banaam and Gogaun. The process model is drawn from a similar process that produced the foundational work of Lost Conversations.
Leadership gardens for learning and sharing
The leadership gardens are like learning circles or communities of practice.
Using Deep Collaboration practices, we will hold separate leadership gardens for First Nations practitioners and Settler Australian practitioners. Both gardens will be co-facilitated and have a male and female senior practitioner to take up a Gogaun role.
Each garden will gather insights separately and bring them into the Combined Middle Space for learning and sharing.
In the Combined Middle Space Garden we will collate our learning for dissemination to others wanting to improve their knowledge and understanding of living and working on this land with dignity alongside First Nations.
Hear from Three Leadership Gardens participants 2025
Member participant. May 2025
This initiative is made possible by the generous support from Collaboration for Impact, The Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellowship and the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, University of Melbourne.
