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It is a reminder to join with and the principle of saying yes to all that we share in common.\nPost the Bushfires which preceded COVID19 arriving on our shores, ChangeFest had the benefit of hearing from Sabrina Davis, Humans of Kangaroo Island. She shared her story and the stories of many others in the dark days that followed the Island community when in the summer of 2019/2020 46% of the entire Island was burnt, including 96% of Flinders Chase National Park. It was at that boundary that Sabrina and her family lived and are now rebuilding. From the ashes and  horror, loss of wildlife, farm animals, human lives, and all kinds of flora and fauna species, what has risen along with the mental health challenges, is a tenacity and a wholeheartedness to find ways to call on each other and hear each others stories as part of the healing.  The radical generosity of others on and off the Island was tangible and Sabrina set about documenting these stories. A film is forthcoming.  Relationships between communities and peers – farmers to farmers in particular – drove home the truth that we are all in this together and in this climate emergency, some places are taking it harder than others.\nSabrina is one of the community leaders involved in the Menzies Foundation Leadership project and her evidence is contributing to building knowledge about the emergence of leaders.\nIt is clear in these two presentations the shift from belonging to being influential, with both of the presenters in these sessions being called on for public policy advice, participating in research and being in demand to share their stories of changemaking and mobilising others.\nHeart Centred Change Making\nThere is an Uluru shaped hole in the heart of Australia as the journey to de-colonise begins to grow.  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These tools to understand and deconstruct our behaviour are a central piece of Deep Collaboration and the training on offer to facilitators who want to learn and apply this practice.\nOther glimpses included local people lining up when it was time for breaks for drinks and food, applauding and joining in some of the sessions and  sing-a-longs in the evening.  Holding the event in a public place, an act of radical transparency brought its challenges, however is a feature of any movement building, shifting some of the more familiar institutional barriers into the shared space.\nI am going to call this movement the decolonisation movement and it showed up at ChangeFest in the visible leadership and co-leadership of sessions. It was also hard wired as an intention of ChangeFest to have sessions they were hosted by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal leadership.  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It is a reminder to join with and the principle of saying yes to all that we share in common.\n\nPost the Bushfires which preceded COVID19 arriving on our shores, ChangeFest had the benefit of hearing from Sabrina Davis, Humans of Kangaroo Island. She shared her story and the stories of many others in the dark days that followed the Island community when in the summer of 2019/2020 46% of the entire Island was burnt, including 96% of Flinders Chase National Park. It was at that boundary that Sabrina and her family lived and are now rebuilding. From the ashes and  horror, loss of wildlife, farm animals, human lives, and all kinds of flora and fauna species, what has risen along with the mental health challenges, is a tenacity and a wholeheartedness to find ways to call on each other and hear each others stories as part of the healing.  The radical generosity of others on and off the Island was tangible and Sabrina set about documenting these stories. A film is forthcoming.  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You may:\n\n(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;\n\n(b) download pages and materials from our website \n\n(c) print pages from our website; and\n\n(d) stream audio and video files from our website\n\n(e) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);\n\n(f) show material from our website in public;\n\n(g) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or\n\n(h) redistribute material from our website.\n\nAcceptable use\n\n**You must not:**\n\n(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;\n\n(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;\n\n(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;\n\n(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;\n\n(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;\n\n(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or\n\n(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).\n\n**Your content: licence**\n\nIn these terms and conditions, \"your content\" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.\n\nYou grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media in relation to this website, Collaboration for Impact and any successor website.\n\nYou hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.\n\nWithout prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all ofyour content.\n\n**Your content: rules**\n\nYou warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.\n\nYour content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).\n\nYour content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:\n\n(a) be libellous or maliciously false;\n\n(b) be obscene or indecent;\n\n(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;\n\n(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;\n\n(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;\n\n(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;\n\n(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;\n\n(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;\n\n(i) be blasphemous;\n\n(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;\n\n(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;\n\n(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;\n\n(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;\n\n(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;\n\n(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;\n\n(p) constitute spam;\n\n(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or\n\n(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.\n\n \n### Breach Policy \n\nWithout prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:\n\n(a) send you one or more formal warnings;\n\n(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;\n\n(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;\n\n(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;\n\n(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;\n\n(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or\n\n(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.\n\nWhere we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.\n\n\n### Limited Liability Policy\n\nThis website and its contents have been developed by Collaboration for Impact in partnership with funders, communities and other capacity building organisations.  It has been prepared for specific use by systems change leaders and initiatives. It is not intended to be used or relied upon by anyone else and is published for general information only. While all efforts have been taken to ensure accuracy, Collaboration for Impact does not accept any duty, liability or responsibility to any person in relation to this website.\n\n \n**Limited warranties**\n\nWe do not warrant or represent:\n\n(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;\n\n(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or\n\n(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.\n\nWe reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.\n\n \n**Limitations and exclusions of liability**\n\nNothing in these terms and conditions will:\n\n(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;\n\n(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;\n\n(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or\n\n(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.\n\nTo the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.\n\nWe will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.\n\nWe will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.\n\nWe will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.\n\nWe will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.\n\nYou accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).\n\n### Law and jurisdiction Policy\n\nThese terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian law.\n\nAny disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia\n\n \n\n### How to contact us\n\nFor further information about our Terms and Conditions or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:\n\nCollaboration for Impact\n37 Roscoe Street\nBondi Beach\nNSW 2026\n\n \n\n### Changes to Terms and Conditions\n\nCollaboration for Impact reserves the right to amend the Terms and Conditions at any time, without any reason, without notice to you. Any changes will be published here, and you should check this website to access our most current Terms of Use. We will publish a “last updated” date at the bottom of this page.\n\n\n### Purchasing Policy\n\nThe coaching sessions and learning events offered for purchase on this website are subject to the following terms and conditions.\n\n**Purchasing terms and conditions**\n\n• Coaching sessions or learning event places will be secured upon full payment by the participant through the booking system or by invoice that will be issued by Collaboration for Impact.\n\n• All costs are in Australian dollars and include GST\n\n• Credit Card payments incur a 3% surcharge\n\n \n\n**Coaching session are subject to the following cancellation and refund policy:**\n\n• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing 5 days to the course date, they will receive a refund of the total course fee minus a AU$20.00 administrative fee;\n\n• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing less than 2 days prior to the course date, a 50% cancellation fee is incurred and the balance will be refunded. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed.\n\n• If the participant fails to attend on the day, they will receive no refund of the course fee. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed. \n\n• Collaboration for Impact will refund all payments made if the coaching session is cancelled by Collaboration for Impact. \n\n \n\n**Learning events are subject to the following cancellation and refund policy:**\n\n• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing 14 days prior to the course date, they will receive a refund of the total course fee minus a AU$20.00 administrative fee;\n\n• If the participant withdraws from the nominated session or event by advising Collaboration for Impact in writing less than 14 days prior to the course date, a 50% cancellation fee is incurred and the balance will be refunded. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed.\n\n• If the participant fails to attend on the day, they will receive no refund of the course fee. In special cases deferral to a later training course may be allowed. \n\nNote: The participant/organisation may nominate a replacement at any time before the first day of the course.\n\nIn event of rescheduling or cancellation of a learning event:\n\n• Collaboration for Impact reserve the right to cancel a course if a minimum of 12 participants has not been achieved 2 weeks prior to course commencement.\n\n• Collaboration for Impact will refund all payments made if the course is cancelled or postponed. The participant may also choose to transfer his/her registration (of equal value) to any other Collaboration for Impact course or to any other person attending a Collaboration for Impact course without incurring any additional cost (subject to the availability of places). Collaboration for Impact will also try to accommodate alternative arrangements acceptable to the client.\n\n\n### Breach Policy\n\nWithout prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:\n\n(a) send you one or more formal warnings;\n\n(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;\n\n(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;\n\n(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;\n\n(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;\n\n(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or\n\n(g) suspend or delete your account on our website.\n\nWhere we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or **prohibition** **or blocking.**"},"privacyPolicy":{"text":"**ChangeFest Privacy Policy**\n\n**1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy****\n**ChangeFest (“we”, “us”) is committed to protecting your personal information. We collect and use information only when we need it to provide our services, run events, communicate with you or if our funding requires us to collect some personal information about the people who use our services or attend our events. . \n\nIn Australia there are rules for organisations to tell them how they collect personal information. These are called the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We follow these and have summarized them in Appendix 1 below\n\n**2. What This Policy Covers****\n**This policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share personal information across our platform, mailing list systems, event registrations and other services.\n\n**4. How We Collect Your Information****\n**We collect information when you sign up, register for an event, join a mailing list, contact us, respond to a surveys, or use our website.\n\n**3. What Personal Information We Collect****\n**Personal information is any information that can identify someone. If we collect your information, it will include the following types of personal information:\n\n\\- Name\n\n\\- Contact details such as phone, email and postal address\n\n\\- Profile information\n\n\\- Event registration details\n\n\\- Communication preferences\n\n\\- Website usage data\n\n\\- Other information that you may choose to give us. \n\n\\- provide. \n\n**5. Why We Collect and Use Your Information**\n\nWe only collect data that is necessary for the services we provide and the events we run. We use your information to provide services, send updates, improve our services, support participation, for statistical and reporting purposes, overall systems administration and security.\n\n\n\n\n**6****. How You Can Control Your Information****\n**We respect your personal information and this means it will always be your information even if we have a copy of it. You can ask us to give you a copy of the personal information we have for you. You can also update your details, decide that you don’t want to receive any communications from us, or let us know if you want us to correct or delete any of your personal information.  \n\nPlease email us at [hello@changefest.com.au](mailto:hello@changefest.com.au) and provide your name, email address and/or telephone number and a clear outline of your request.  We will respond to you as soon as possible.  \n\n\n**7****. Children and Young People****\n**We do not seek to collect data from children under 16 years unless we have the permission of their parent, caregivers or carers or guardian. If we find out that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without appropriate permission, we will delete that information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16 without parental consent, please contact us.\n\n**8****. When we use other services**\n\nTo run our programs and events we sometimes use other services, for example Humanitixto sell tickets for events. We choose these services carefully, especially when they will need to also collect personal information, and when you use their services, your personal information is protected by their privacy policy.\n\nWe do not sell or rent personal information to others and only share personal information with another organisation when the law says we must or to protect the safety of people at ChangeFest, the users of our website or the public.  \n\n**9****. Cookies and Website Tracking****\n**We use cookies to understand usage and improve our website. \n\nTechnical information about cookies and web beacons; logging practices; external links; and Do Not Track (DNT) can be found in our Technical Information at the bottom of this document (Appendix 2). \n\n**10****. Data Security and Retention****\n**We protect your information and only retain it as long as necessary.\n\nBecause it follows APP Principles?? \n\n**1****1****. Changes to This Policy****\n**We will review this policy each year and publish the most up to date version on our website. \n\n**1****2****. Contact Us****\n**Email us at hello@changefest.com.au if you:\n\n\\- have questions about how we collect or use your personal information; \n\n\\- are unhappy about the way we handle your personal information; \n\n\\- think we need to update any of the personal information we hold about you; \n\n\\- or wish to access the personal information we hold about you.  \n\nWe will respond to any requests as soon as possible.  \n\n\n\n**Appendix 1 – The Australian Privacy** **Principles**\n\n \n\n**APP 1 — Open and Transparent Management of Personal Information**\n\nOrganisations must handle personal information openly and transparently, including having a clear, uptodate privacy policy. \n\n**APP 2 — Anonymity and Pseudonymity**\n\nWhere possible, you must be given the option to interact with an organisation anonymously or using a fake name, except in specific situations where identification is required. \n\n**APP 3 — Collection of Solicited Personal Information**\n\nOrganisations may collect personal information only when necessary—especially sensitive information, which requires stricter protection. \n\n**APP 4 — Dealing with Unsolicited Personal Information**\n\nIf an organisation receives personal information it didn’t ask for, it must decide whether it could have collected it legally. If not, it should destroy or deidentify it. \n\n**APP 5 — Notification of the Collection of Personal Information**\n\nWhen collecting personal information, organisations must tell you what they’re collecting, why, how it will be used, and other relevant details. \n\n**APP 6 — Use or Disclosure of Personal Information**\n\nPersonal information can only be used or shared for the purpose it was collected unless an exception applies. \n\n**APP 7 — Direct Marketing**\n\nOrganisations can use or share personal information for marketing only if certain conditions are met, and individuals must be allowed to opt out. \n\n**APP 8 — Cross****border Disclosure of Personal Information**\n\nBefore sending personal information overseas, organisations must take steps to make sure it will be protected. \n\n**APP 9 — Adoption, Use or Disclosure of Government****related Identifiers**\n\nOrganisations generally can’t use government identifiers (like Medicare or tax file numbers) as their own identifiers except in limited circumstances. \n\n**APP 10 — Quality of Personal Information**\n\nOrganisations must ensure any personal information they collect, use, or disclose is accurate, up to date, complete, and relevant. \n\n**APP 11 — Security of Personal Information**\n\nOrganisations must protect personal information from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access, and destroy or deidentify it when it’s no longer needed. \n\n**APP 12 — Access to Personal Information**\n\nYou have the right to access your personal information, and organisations must provide access unless a specific exception applies. \n\n**APP 13 — Correction of Personal Information**\n\nIf your personal information is incorrect, organisations must take reasonable steps to fix it\n\n \n\n**Appendix** **2** **-** **Technical Information**\n\n**Logging Practices**\n\nWhen you use the ChangeFest website, we automatically collect your **IP address**.\nAn IP address is a unique number assigned to your device when it connects to the internet. Most internet connections use a “dynamic” IP address, which means the number changes regularly. However, some broadband connections use a “static” IP address that stays the same. In those cases, the IP address may be linked to your specific device and could be considered personal information.\n\nWe also collect information about:\n\n• The website you visited just before coming to the ChangeFest site\n\n• The search terms you used to find us\n\n• Which pages you visit on our site and how long you spend on them\n\n• Your searches on our website (these remain anonymous and confidential)\n\nWe use this information only to understand what content is most useful to visitors and to help improve the website.\n\nIn addition, we may collect certain technical details your device sends automatically as part of standard website traffic analysis, such as:\n\n• Your browser or device type and version\n\n• Your operating system\n\n• The date and time you accessed the website\n\n• How much data was transferred\n\n \n\n**External Links**\n\nOur website contains links to external sites created and maintained by other organisations. These links are provided for your convenience.\n\nWhen you click one of these links, you leave the ChangeFest website. This means our privacy policy no longer applies. We strongly recommend reading the privacy policy of any external site before sharing your personal information.\n\n \n\n**Cookies and Web Beacons**\n\nOur website uses **cookies** and **web beacons** (small files or tags placed on your device) to help us understand how people use our website over time.\n\nWe use:\n\n• **Session cookies** — active only while your browser is open\n\n• **Persistent cookies** — remain on your device and recognise you when you return\n\n• **Web beacons** – only used if you have signed up for a marketing and open them \n\nThese tools help us:\n\n• Identify returning visitors\n\n• Make the website easier for you to use\n\n• Understand how people navigate the site\n\n• Balance traffic across our servers\n\nWe may also use **tracking cookies**, **third****party cookies**, and similar technologies to support features like social media sharing or to understand how you engage with our emails. \n\n**Do Not Track (DNT)**\n\nSome browsers allow you to send a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked. 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