formation Program: 

Gathering on Gimuy: A Vision for Reconciliation

A program for strategic or Senior Management Leaders within EREA, such as members of School Executive/Leadership Teams, alongside leaders of First Nations Education and Reconciliation, particularly First Nations staff.

For Senior Leaders, this program would ideally follow participation in A Vision for Liberation.

Through Cultural engagement and exploring decolonising practices this program will prompt reflection, dialogue and action planning on Gimuy (Cairns) Country. 

Guided by First Nations’ voices, this program provides opportunities for connecting to Country, truth-telling, confronting racism and addressing issues of inequality, so that we might build a national identity that values and recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and rights as integral to who we are. In addition, it provides participants with the opportunity to reflect upon the strategic intent expressed by their schools/offices, identify the challenges and opportunities present, and articulate their next steps in realising or evolving this intent.

Participants are invited into ‘head, heart and hands’ relationships and activities that build their capacity to enact the strategic intentions and spirit of Reconciliation within their communities.