About Lunch & Learn

About Lunch & Learn

Come together to explore community-led change

ChangeFest Lunch & Learn sessions are free online conversations held throughout the year as part of the ChangeFest Learning Network.

Sessions explore stories of community-led change, as well as provide space to connect with each other.

Importantly the Learning Network sessions explore the ChangeFest Principles in action:

  • Shared leadership: between First Nations and other Australians requires equitable ways of working together across races and cultures.
  • Collaboration: we recognise that everyone has a role to play in changing the systems they are a part of. We need all stakeholders from local to national levels to collaborate on complex challenges that communities are facing. 
  • Power: that effective place based change is when communities are enabled to lead and work in collaboration with other decision makers and power holders. This requires all groups to be aware of the power they have and how this can be shared and harnessed to centre community in decision making.

During a Lunch & Learn session, participants share insights from their experience and take new ides back into their own work and communities.

Learning grounded in experience

Sessions are shaped by the people and communities involved.

Rather than presenting one answer or model, the sessions create space for different perspectives, honest reflection and collective learning. They recognise that learning happens differently when it is grounded in place, relationships and lived experience.

Participants often say the Learning Network helps them see their work differently -- and recognise how it connects to something larger happening across the country.

Help shape a future session

If you have an idea for a Lunch & Learn session, we’d love to hear from you. This might be your story of change – or someone you know, or perhaps it’s a question you have that you’d love to explore with other members of the movement. We’re always keen to hear your ideas - please get in touch here.