“Curriculum didn’t arrive on a boat, pedagogy didn’t arrive on a boat, it was always here”. (Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, 2015).

As public narrative and organizing coaches and trainers, we have a responsibility to design and deliver curriculum and pedagogy that connects with everyone who comes to learn. For these experiences to be deeply meaningful and relevant, it requires us to critically review and adapt our ways of knowing, being, and doing through the lens of ancient wisdom and Indigenous practices.

As we continue to refine our purpose to equip leaders to step into our definition of leadershipーaccepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertaintyーwe must weave ancient wisdom and Indigenous practices into our curriculum and pedagogy that is deeply rooted in the traditions, customs, heritages, and cultures that lie at the heart of our people and communities. These actions will inherently push back colonial systems of oppression that continue to breed division and destruction.

This session is part of the learning series Practicing Justice as Coaches & Trainers, intended for coaches & trainers of the People, Power, Change framework. We’re opening early registration to those joining the full series. Space is limited, so we encourage you to reserve your spot soon.

If you are interested in joining for part of the series, please reach out to Community of Practice Lead Sachiko Osawa at sachiko.osawa@leadingchangenetwork.org.

*This session is adapted from Session 3 of The Liberation Lab: A Course on Agency, Identity, and Restoration, a program to explore democratic public leadership, focusing on reflection, restoration, and race dynamics, developed by Arc of Change LLC and led by trainers Abel Cano and Kortni Malone.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how “Indigenous Terms of Reference” can better inform our ways of knowing, being, and doing as coaches and trainers 
• Apply a justice lens to Public Narrative and Organizing curriculum and pedagogy 
• Create new actions as coaches and trainers to build individual and collective cultural capabilityーby moving from cultural destructiveness to cultural sustainability

Katrina is a Global Leadership Architect shaped by a childhood filled with memories of her family teaching her values like loyalty, resilience, and respect. Drawing strength from her faith and life’s challenges, she is called to serve others to create prosperity in both life and business. As a proud Gooreng Gooreng woman, from Australia, she leans into her heritage to inform her leadership and business practice as the Co-Director of Monash University’s Master of Indigenous Business Leadership. Katrina is also a graduate of LCN’s Train the Trainer Program and Public Narrative Coach Training Program, and served as a Teaching Fellow on the online course Public Narrative: Leadership, Storytelling, and Action at the Harvard Kennedy School.

For more information about this event please contact Sachiko Osawa