Future proofing tomorrow’s leadership champions
Indigenous-led intergenerational knowledge transfer for mentorship and/or coaching
Year granted: 2020
Organisation location: Mitchelton, QLD
Themes: Mental health and social emotional wellbeing, Empowerment
Project summary: This project explored the idea of Indigenous-led intergenerational knowledge transfer for mentorship and/or coaching. Through facilitated supportive relationships, the idea was to improve intergenerational connections between senior community leaders and young people willing to learn and develop their leadership capacities.
‘Our project focuses on advancing the leadership aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young peoples through Indigenous-led intergenerational knowledge translation mechanisms. Our pilot sites, a small number of Community Controlled Health Organisations across Queensland, will be ‘lighthouses’ for the hopes, aspirations and legacies of Senior Leaders and Elders, to leave a rich leadership heritage to younger generations who will then pass on further leadership wisdom and knowledge to other generations to follow.’
– Eddie and Suzanne Watkin, Founders and Project Leads
