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Molong to host The Land “Next Crop” Forum Molong has been selected to host a unique forum setting out to unearth good ideas of how rural communities could be more successful using their existing resources and capabilities. Other districts selected for this year’s forums include Glen Innes, Tooraweenah and Yass. This is a new way of having conversations that focus firstly, on what is agreed or can easily be agreed - attending to ENQUIRY, exploring and expanding of what CAN be done, rather than arguing, debating and going into battle on fixed view resulting in inactivity.
Holding on to businesses and services in country towns through this drought has become a serious concern for a lot of the state's rural communities - let alone maintaining community vitality. Last year when The Land newspaper kicked off its Next Crop series of forums across the state (at Cooma, on March 1, 2018, and which concluded in November in Orange), the season was dry and getting drier. Areas such as Walgett and Lightning Ridge had already been experiencing drought conditions for a couple of years, but few people anticipated just how intense and widespread the drought would become, nor for how long it would continue. The forums set out to unearth good ideas of how rural communities could be more successful using their existing resources and capabilities. What was unearthed was a huge interest and desire for change, and great enthusiasm for good ideas and support on where to start with positive change, said The Land's editor, Andrew Norris. Given the number of people asking "what's next", The Land looked for ideas around how to step up the concept from simply a discussion platform that unearthed good ideas, to something that could enable communities to drive their own change from the grass roots level. Fortunately, the forum process uncovered behavioural scientist and negotiation expert Allan Parker, whose business, Peak Performance Development Pty Ltd, has clients across Australia and internationally. Mr Parker has agreed to partner with The Land to give his time and help get this concept up and running, chiefly as a facilitator of the individual community revitalisation
This “Considered and Sensitive Conversations” approach is delivered by Mr Allan Parker, Behavioural Scientist and International Negotiator from www.peakpd.com Proudly supported by The Land newspaper and Cabonne Council. On Monday 4 March 2019 at 6:00pm. RSVP to
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project meetings. "We will be equipping the communities to act on what the community can do, not wait for politicians to do," Mr Parker said. "It's about exploring innovation and resulting in new goals and new ways to network together in the community. “We’re trying to get community conversation to take place, not another community committee meeting,” he said, to articulate the difference in how this process would work compared to other community meeting experiences people are likely to have had. It would therefore be a gathering, rather than a meeting, run as an informal conversation that also crosses generational boundaries. He said, if successful, the process would improve the relationships within the community, both individually, between self interest groups and as a whole. "It will be conversations that are inclusive, consider the interests of all of us and are what we agree on," he said. "People need to be willing to explore the reality that there are easier and more productive ways to have good conversations - don't focus on what I can't have, or don't want, or can't do. "Instead we'll look at what we want and that can be acted upon now." The meetings will be open to the whole community in the towns in which they're held. This includes Glen Innes, Tooraweenah, Yass and Molong. The Molong meeting will be held on Monday, March 4, at the Molong Community Hall, Bank
Behavioural scientist Allan Parker, Peak Performance Development Pty Ltd, has partnered with The Land to bring a new project to rural NSW communities. Street, Molong. Other communities with which The Land will launch revitalisation projects includes Glen Innes, Tooraweenah and Yass. Once up and running, The Land will aim to report on each community's progress at key times, and explain the process, goals and outcomes. All are welcome and urged to attend what should be an interesting and worthwhile event. RSVP to https://www.trybooking.com/book/ event?eid=474158& - Story and photo: The Land.
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