Creative Connections: Session 22
Intercultural Working
Guest panelist:
Mark Yettica-Paulson (Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples), Founder and Chief Super Native Unlimited: An Indigenous leader from the South East Queensland and North East NSW regions, Mark Yettica-Paulson is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples. He is the Core-Facilitator of the Australia Council for the Arts’ Custodianship Program. Mark is the founder and Chief of Super Native Unlimited, specialising in creative and cultural leadership development. Mark brings decades of wisdom from his career in leadership development and community education across the corporate and government sectors.
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About This Episode
How can we more effectively listen to and follow the leadership or Custodianship of our First Nations people(s)?
An opportunity to listen and learn from our Custodianship Program Core-Facilitator Mark Yettica-Paulson, who will share insights into culturally safe working practices. Mark will talk through how we might approach working with a more culturally safe practice, and some of the tools and considerations that are crucial to developing our practice and protocols for independents and organisations.
Mark is an Indigenous leader from the South East Queensland and North East NSW regions, Mark Yettica-Paulson is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples.
About The Series
Creative Connections is an online webinar series for the cultural and arts sectors and will offer practical, accessible and useful content delivered by industry experts on key topics and emerging themes.
The series is focused around the theme of adaptation, and sessions will explore digital adaptation, leadership adaptation and arts practice adaptation. Sessions will be facilitated by experts in specific topic areas, with over thirty sessions available.
Topic: Intercultural Working
Date: 10 June 2020
Time: 3 pm
Guest’s clan and/or language groups: Mark Yettica-Paulson – Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples
Location of guest: Mark Yettica-Paulson – Turrbal, Yuggera (Brisbane)
Location of host: Ian RT Colless – Eora, Gadigal, (Sydney)
Contact Us
For questions about the series, please contact the Capacity Building team at leadershipprogram@creative.gov.au
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The Custodianship Program Core Facilitator: Mark Yettica-Paulson
An Indigenous leader from the South East Queensland and North East NSW regions, Mark Yettica-Paulson is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples. He is the founder and Chief of Super Native Unlimited, specialising in creative and cultural leadership development. Mark brings decades of wisdom from his career in leadership development and community education across the corporate and government sectors.
Mark is currently the Deep Collaboration Lead for Collaboration for Impact, Australasia’s leading capacity building & learning network for responding to complexity through effective collaboration. He has facilitated leadership programs and advised organisations such as NAB, the AFL, Medibank Australia, Australia Post and The Foundation for Young Australians. He was Joint Campaign Director for Recognise, the recent campaign for a National Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and remove discrimination.
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