WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL

Yurra Yurra!

There are many interesting STROIES being spoken about by Fist Nations peoples leading up to the National conversation and deliberation on Constitutional Recognition. 

I have to wonder if White Australia is really aware of, let alone ready
to make a decision on this? I have noticed a space of silence around Constitutional Recognition by Mainstreamers and it is quite unsettling I must say...

Is the future of my Great Grannies in the hands of todays voting public?

Now White Australia might say they're willing to, and welcome the recognition of First Nations peoples within the Constitution. BUT are they able to collectively make the Mind Shift that interrupts the status quo? Are they capable of and prepared to take fair, appropriate and just ACTIONS which gives voice to a NEW Australian Story and Identity?

So far much attention again has been focused on the Indigenous peoples of Australia as a problem....it is a model of deficit that has been applied to us throughout history and continues to follow us around like a naughty lost puppy looking for a home and a good feed. Sure everyone knows it's there, it may get a few scraps from the table to fill its belly and the occasional pat on the head, but no one wants to own it really...its like everyone expects that someone else will take pity on it and either take it home, put it in the pound or if it's neglected long enough - for its own good it may die...

We as First Nations people need to talk Constitutional Recognition up with each other - no matter if we support it or not - it needs to be talked about! We also need to begin talking to our Non-Indigenous families and friends and communities....

Don't wait hoping someone else will do it...The future of your Great Grannies depends on the decisions and actions you take today.

Yurra Yurra
Wendy

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What is success - Leadership Development and Training

A very famous and very successful public figure in business once said, with not a trace of irony, that he had pushed his business to the very top having started with absolutely nothing – apart from the first “half million his father had given him to get his business going in the first place”.

Okay, that’s an amusing story but it does call into question quite how we all define success.

What does success mean to you?

At the Stars Institute's Youth Leadership Development, we wouldn’t presume to tell you what success should mean in your particular circumstances.  That is something that each of us as individuals must define for ourselves.

Even so, there are a few things that we think need to be thought of in this context.

·         Is someone who has a business worth $1,000,000 a success?  It may sound as though that is a no-brainer but what if their business was worth five million dollars a year ago?

·         Would you describe someone who has a team working for them of 50 people as an important and successful leader?  Maybe so but what if that person is loathed and detested by their team? 

·         Is the person who is phenomenally busy and with a reasonable income successful?  What about if that means that they never see their family?

Ultimately, there can be no universal definition of success.

At the Stars Institute, we’d like to see this in terms of the extent to which you as an individual are content and happy that you are utilising your potential to the maximum amount possible.   Leadership development and training in this context transcends ideas of status and income.

What this means is that it is important to define personal success criteria that are meaningful to you.  Surprisingly, not everyone who is a self-made millionaire is happy and content and some, by their own admission, will tell you that they do not consider themselves to be successful.

So, the question at the outset repeats itself - what do you think of as success in your context?

Frankly, we haven’t a clue to that in isolation and we can only help you to think about it further if you join us on one of our development sessions.

We’d love to see you there! 

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STARS - Making a Difference

YOU CAN DO IT!

Believe it or not self-doubt is very natural. Its your brains way of keeping you safe by avoiding having you doing anything that with put it or you under threat!

To make the difference you are here to make, and live the life you are excited to lead you must learn to master self-doubt. 

STARS loves to re-educate people in how to focus your emotions and redirect your thoughts so they don't run away with your dream...

Practice redirecting your thoughts each time self-doubt creeps in. It does take time, intention and attention.

Enjoy Yarra Yarra

http://www.starsleadershipinstitute.com/

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Racism against Indigenous People of Australia

NO ROOM FOR RACISM - SO WHY IS IT ON THE RISE...?

In 2013 there was a 59% increase in racist hatred and vilification complaints to the Human Rights Commission according to Megan Mitchell National Children's Commissioner.
According to research;
*80% of students from non-Anglo backgrounds reported experiencing racial discrimination
*racism has a wide range of negative impacts on children's mental, physical & social well-being.
*schools are the main settings for racist behavior
* reasons for not reporting racism include fear the issue won't be dealt with properly, and fear of further bullying.

Megan was a speaker at the Generation Next Conference I attended last Friday on the Gold Coast.

In 2013 a survey on racism by the Lowitja Institute found almost every Aboriginal Victorian interviewed had experienced racism in the previous 12 months.

The Racism IT STOPS WITH me campaign hopes to ensure more Australians recognize that racism is unacceptable in our community.

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STARS - the only leadership organisation who does it right!

Consider that our minds have become entangled within inter-generational colonial belief systems which have us perpetuate variation of the past...

This is happening at the speed of light and off the radar of our consciousness...It does not empower us, rather it keeps or minds and our capacity to lead fully in a dormant state of crisis...

It has enabled Australia to not recognize the impacts of racisms and the Silent National Lie that continues to bubble and shape our National identity...

"Out of the Box Thinking on Indigenous Leadership" takes you on a personal journey on how to begin recognizing where you are blocked up by rubbish from the past, how to begin decolonizing your mind, taking back your spirit and determining your identity and the direction of your life and your leadership ...and much, much more....

STARS Institute is the only leadership organisation in the country doing this level of work...it is needed now ore than ever before!

Go to our website and PRE-ORDER "Out of the Box Thinking on Indigenous Leadership" and take advantage of the discount prices.

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Muckaty Community Leadership is an Example for Us All...

I was enlivened by the news of victory for the Muckaty Community near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Finally after 8 long years of battling with the Australian Government their Ancestral Lands will no longer be consider as the location for a nuclear waste dump. What is going to be the communities next biggest challenge is healing the family & community divisions & trauma that has now become the emotional & social legacy of this battle...it makes me weak that in spite of the empowerment experienced by Muckaty people they are also now left to deal with a now fractured community. I wonder how & if the Australian government is going to support the Muckaty people through this???

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Empowerment

I got a new understanding about self-empowerment that I wanted to share with you. 

When I can say to myself that I am willing to be 100% responsible for my life and the choices and decisions I make then I experience being empowered. I am not waiting on others to do it to me or for me I am my own go to self-empowerment person...

I used to think to myself when my 4 year old and 13 year old sons stop stirring each other up then I'll show calmness and patience...let me tell you that approaching wasn't working too well for me or the boys.

But the moment I choose to BE calm and loving with the boys even when part of me wanted to scream at them "stop fighting" a sense of peace occurred within me and within them...I was still able to say to them "stop fighting" but it was coming from me being centred and calm rather then being from a place of anger and resentment. What I have found is that when I am being this way with them, their battles are fewer and they are now usually able to sort their power struggles out between themselves very quickly.

Choosing to be 100% responsible for how I Be in any given situation is one essence of self-empowerment. And what I love is that when I Be self-empowerment on a stick it gives my boys permission to Be the same.

Many a great leadership lesson has come from allowing my children to grow me up...
Wendy     

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