What is Deep Collaboration?

By working in this way, you will be better able to:

• Facilitate purposeful collaboration between First Nations and other Australians
• Build different relationships, dynamics and connections through your work
• Understand and work with complex forms of power and power dynamics in systems and groups
• Facilitate others to deepen their understanding of power in systems and groups
• Hold and work constructively with conflict in groups
• Identify, understand and work across diverse worldviews
• Support yourself and others throughout this process

• Curiosity about how you can collaborate better
• Openness to shift the way you work
• Willingness to take risks, encourage others, find inspiration along the way
• Desire to learn, adapt and change in response to new ideas and perspectives
• Adequate level of Cultural Competency, Cultural Intelligence and awareness of relevant First Nations cultures

You will also need an adequate level of understanding and competency concerning the other cultures and people you are working with, whether First Nations or other Australians, before using these resources.

Deep Collaboration builds on this existing foundation by increasing your understanding of relationships and power dynamics between First Nations and other Australians when working together.

We focus on the collaborative skills required to work together and change:

• Relationships and connections
• Power dynamics
• Worldviews or Mental Models