The Lakes Post recently had the following article on the launch of the revised edition of Growing and Learning in Rural Communities on 19th November 2024. Dr Helen Sheil launched her latest publication Growing and Learning in Rural Communities at the Lakes Entrance Library last Tuesday with a large audience in attendance. Before Helen spoke […]
While living in East Gippsland, Helen was inspired by the Rural Women’s Program introduced by Helenè Brophy. This led to her enrolment in Adult Education at the University of South Australia, to teach Diploma of Community Development at TAFE, and later to research and design a post-graduate program for Regional Community Development facilitators at Monash […]
A professional development manual for facilitators on the front-line of community engagement and management. An introduction to theory, practice and evaluation of a model of Collaborative engagement for transformation.
Publication Date: 19th July 2024.
Communities, government and professionals are all seeking more effective tools to assist positive change in rural communities. The Centre for Rural Communities has produced two publications that distill 15 years of community work into a process for working effectively and positively to enable communities to achieve their own goals and dreams. Growing and Learning in […]
July 21st, 22nd, 23rd 2023 Sharing memories of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust Football legendary players, games and histories has been emotional. Everyone had stories. Some elicited smiles in telling of the early days. In 1901 players walked from the Trust to Cunninghame (Lakes Entrance) to catch a boat to Bairnsdale to play, coming home […]
Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust : Time to share memories and memorabilia: Omeo League, Football history Friday 21 July: 5.00 – 8.30 PM – Lake Tyers Trust Hall Saturday 22 July: Swifts Creek game and memorabilia (transport available) Sunday 23 July – 10:30 am – Auskick game – Lake Tyers Trust Full Program available here
Recent events in Victoria highlight the importance of politicians paying attention to the rural voice and the issue of rural well being. The substance of this paper demonstrates the capacity of rural communities to contribute a missing link in the chain of decision making in regard to the future well being of regional Australia. To […]
Stories is about our lake and we are delighted that people travelled from Mallacoota, Bruthen, Clifton Creek, Phillip Island and Melbourne to be part of this gathering that shared different yet equally influential stories. When we make the space people bring their stories and we all learn. Here is a snapshot of people who came […]
Lakes Entrance fishing: Whenever we listen to local fishing, farming or forestry folk the message is clear, bigger is not better for the region: not access to the product or for the environment. The corporate ownership of these finite natural community resources changes the agenda from long term use to short term extraction detrimental to […]
Stories of Influence 2021 involved some new faces and some familiar. Neil Murray and Todd Cook sang stories we relate to giving us hope. Jan Wositzky entertained and expanded our hearts, Don Ashby shared the power of art in all times, especially in this time, Chris Flynn used imagination to look at our world and […]