The Centre for Rural Communities   
Inc.

The Centre for Rural Communities was formed in 1995 to work towards the development of rural communities that are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable.

The Centre’s vision is of people and place existing in harmony.

The Centre is now operating primarily from Nowa Nowa in East Gippsland, Victoria.

Workshop materials  
Dr Helen Sheil
The Centre for Rural Communities has developed a series of tools to help Community Facilitators engage their community in ice-breaking and thought-provoking conversations.

Cape York Institute Leadership Academy  
Helen Sheil, July 2009

The Centre for Rural Communities has consistently worked to facilitate the inclusion of local knowledge into mainstream thinking through skilling and resourcing those whose lives are impacted by changing policies and practice.  While there are additional layers of complexity, the strategies of collaborative engagement have relevance to the goals of the Leadership Academy.