Wellbeing for Community Engagement Practitioners
Foundation
Do you want to learn how to incorporate community wellbeing into your engagement planning and how to make it a priority when planning your engagement activities?
An IAP2 Australasia specialised course, in partnership with COMACON.
Enhance your skills as a community engagement practitioner by focusing on wellbeing—yours, your team’s, and the community’s.
*Please note, this course does not contribute towards the IAP2 Australasia Certificate of Engagement.
This is a full day course, delivered online.
Course Outcomes and more
Key Benefits:
• Learn to prioritise community wellbeing in line with Australia’s new national wellbeing framework.
• Gain tools to manage difficult situations while safeguarding personal and team wellbeing.
• Understand the Australian Government’s “Measuring What Matters” national wellbeing framework and how it guides project and service delivery.
• Build your personal wellbeing goals and develop strategies for your team and community.
Course Outcomes:
• Understanding the importance of wellbeing in engagement and practical ways to incorporate it.
• Legislative insights on Australia’s National Wellbeing Framework.
• How to set meaningful goals, cultivate a growth mindset, and create effective boundaries.
• Develop team and community wellbeing plans with actionable templates and guides.
Takeaways:
• An operating system to manage your personal wellbeing
• A toolkit to deal with difficult situations and protect your personal wellbeing
• Templates for team and community wellbeing plans that integrate into engagement strategies.
Who is this Course for?
Whether you’re new or experienced, this course empowers you to enhance wellbeing in every aspect of your work. Suitable for engagement practitioners in Australia and New Zealand.
Cost
- $895 AUD Members including GST
- $1245 AUD Non-members including GST
About the Trainer
Donna Groves
Donna is a community engagement specialist with 30 years’ experience delivering the stakeholder and community engagement for over 200 infrastructure and natural resources projects. She has owned and operated Comacon for 15 years and throughout her career has worked in senior stakeholder and community engagement roles for both Government and the private sector, including and 18 month second as Head of Communications and Engagement for Infrastructure Australia.
Donna has a passion for supporting people and communities to own and share their stories, including how they are engaged with. The wellbeing of communities and people is at the core of her work and the focus of Comacon’s delivery of stakeholder and community engagement.
Donna is a passionate sportsperson and supporter. She is a current football (soccer) player, a retired netballer, a current netball coach and sits on the board of numerous sporting bodies. Wellbeing, community empowerment and supporting women in sport are what drives Donna.
Donna Groves is the Managing Director, of Comacon, author of Shine and A Difficult Woman (to be released late 2024), and hosts the Shine podcast.
