Within communities, people hold different views of the world developed from their own experiences.
Study Circles provide a forum where these differences can be respected and learnt from to work towards a common goal.
Members of a Study Circle become familiar with how to work in this democratically responsible manner.
The Centre has published a Study Circle’s kit that will assist groups to:
“It was a very good method of each individual learning to understand how groups work and it had very sound foundations.”
(Study group member, Sandy Point, 1999)
Copies of the Study Circle Kit are available for sale for a printed copy or free for a download copy, through our Publications page.
Recognising innovative, sustainable and socially just co-operative community culture. Not a competition – a recognition.
Which Awards?
Not the Order of Australia, Australian of the Year, Logies, Arias or even Citizen of the Year- but ‘The OTHER Awards.’ The Awards that celebrate the work of local community groups who work creatively, tirelessly, co-operatively and ingeniously for the good of the community.
Why have ‘The Other Awards’?
There are many levels of recognition of achievement in Australia. Some of these are initiated by Federal, State or local government while others come from sporting clubs, schools, universities, workplaces, etc. They honour all sorts of excellence from the arts and entertainment through to charity work. Most awards honour outstanding people who have made a difference in their industry, workplace or community.
But before ‘The Other Awards’ there wasn’t any community initiated awards that recognise and acknowledge the work of their own local community groups and the amazing accomplishments they achieve from year to year.
More information on ‘The Other Awards’ is available here (PDF 1.3 Mb)
An evening with Dr Helen Sheil. Connect with others. Be inspired. Enjoy! Discussing the value of networking personally, professionally and publicly in navigating complexities of community life. What I learnt about networking’s contribution to transformative change and ways to design it into processes and projects. As a model of collaborative engagement networking is one of […]
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 […]
Book re-launch revisits the art of successful community engagement in a divided world. Regional Community Development researcher and former Monash University educator, Dr Helen Sheil will be re-releasing a revised edition of her definitive community engagement textbook ‘Growing and Learning in Rural Communities’, on Tuesday 19th November, between 2-3pm at the Lakes Entrance Library. Having […]