Lookrukin Participants Information
OCPE developed the Lookrukin Indigenous Women’s Leadership Development Pilot Program in response to calls for a women’s version of the highly successful Kigaruk Indigenous Men’s Leadership Development Pilot Program, which was successfully conducted in 2003/2004.
Lookrukin was developed in close consultation with a reference group of Indigenous women drawn from across a range of NTPS agencies, academic institutions, and private sector organisations. The consultation process included input from women representing all areas of Darwin and the regions.
Program
The program is intended as a formal learning experience that couples significant personal learning with organisational development strategies, designed around the principles and processes of Action Learning.
The Action Learning methodology has a number of features:
- Formal learning content is applied directly to the context of each participant’s workplace. The learning is presented in a format that allows time for reflection and application.
- Participants apply the aspects of learning that are most relevant and critical to supporting the requirements of their agency as well as contributing to their own personal and professional development.
- Individuals are encouraged to take responsibility for the learning needed to strengthen their own personal effectiveness.
- Components of Action Learning processes include:
- formal learning units;
- unit reflection;
- mentoring support;
- learning teams or networks – Action Learning Groups;
- self and peer assessment.
- formal learning units;
- Academic support for participants is made available through the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS), which is part of the Indigenous Support Unit, Community and Access, at CDU.
- Learning advisers from the Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment are also on hand to support participants should they require additional assistance.
Further information on the Program is available in the Prospectus and Course Structure.
Accreditation
The Lookrukin Indigenous Women’s Leadership Development Program is accredited as a Diploma of Business (Frontline Management) through CDU.
Presentation days
Three days are set aside for participants to engage in personal learnings discussions and group project presentations.
Personal learnings are assessed on an individual basis and participants submit a written account of their Lookrukin learning journey (adapted from their journals), as well as participate in an informal discussion of their learnings and successes with a small panel comprising Indigenous elders and academics.
Project presentations involve group written reports, as well as team oral and visual presentations of those reports to assessment panels comprising Chief Executives and other senior members of the various representative agencies. Participants also engage in discussion of their group learnings with members of the assessment panel.
Eligibility
Enrolment and participation in the Lookrukin Indigenous Women ’s Leadership Development Program is through your agency’s formal nomination and selection processes. Participants will be drawn from across a range of NTPS agencies. Maximum number of participants is restricted to twenty so early nomination is recommended.
The Lookrukin logo was developed and designed by
Kungarakan Elder, Mildred McGinness. The story attached to the logo design is that of beetle-like insects (up to 5mm in length) that skim busily in small or large groups on the surface and edges of fresh waterways. Their presence signifies the purity of the water. The Aboriginal colours of black, red and yellow are used to signify the wake caused by the little beetles as they skim swiftly across the water.