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No More Shame

Regional community mapping, Robinvale and Mildura

Context: Community and stakeholder mapping across approximately six regional Victorian communities, with youth, family and Elder engagement.
Emeli's role: Community researcher, mapping lead and facilitator.
Methods: Community and stakeholder mapping, engagement with young people, families and Elders, identification of community strengths and service gaps.
How it influenced CxCD: Shaped the Locate and Map stages of CxCD, and the principle that community knowledge is legitimate evidence.

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Reach Foundation

First Nations and youth community practice

Context: Long-term practice across Alice Springs and Central Australia, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and regional Victoria.
Emeli's role: Facilitator, program designer and facilitator developer.
Methods: Youth camps, school and community programs, Elder engagement, national parks-based learning, train-the-trainer and community-led adaptation.
How it influenced CxCD: Established repeat relationships as infrastructure and local capability over external dependency.

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Catholic Archdiocese

Reconciliation Action Plan processes and cultural capability

Context: Work across First Nations stakeholders, staff, executives and institutional gatekeepers.
Emeli's role: Facilitator, cultural capability practitioner and partnership builder.
Methods: Reconciliation Action Plan processes, cultural capability training, community engagement and staff facilitation.
How it influenced CxCD: Sharpened the distinction between consultation and shared authority, and between symbolic reconciliation and practical change.

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The Virtues Project International

Teacher development, Botswana and Namibia

Context: Educational program adaptation with local educators, including engagement concerning San communities and government systems.
Emeli's role: Facilitator and program adaptation practitioner.
Methods: Teacher development, culturally responsive implementation, co-determination of what translated and what required redesign.
How it influenced CxCD: Confirmed that imported solutions must become locally interpreted responses.

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Community placement, Northern Ireland

Post-conflict community learning, Belfast

Context: Approximately ten weeks of cultural and community learning across Falls Road and Protestant community contexts, with communities affected by the Troubles.
Emeli's role: Participant practitioner and community learner.
Methods: Immersive community learning across history, religion, identity, place and inherited conflict.
How it influenced CxCD: Reconciliation cannot be externally imposed.

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Experiential education program, upstate New York

Youth development with young people from the Bronx and Brooklyn

Context: Approximately three months of experiential education and youth development practice.
Emeli's role: Youth practitioner and facilitator.
Methods: Experiential education, belonging, confidence and participation, adapting programs to lived realities.
How it influenced CxCD: Programs must adapt to the lived realities of participants, not the reverse.

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Midsumma

Research, evaluation and organisational practice

Methods: Participatory inquiry, qualitative synthesis and organisational learning.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed evidence-to-decision translation within cultural organisations.

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ILGA Oceania

Regional research and convening practice

Methods: Participatory inquiry, collective sensemaking and regional facilitation.
How it influenced CxCD: Strengthened Pacific relational practice within CxCD applications.

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Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network

Pacific community and movement practice

Methods: Relational practice, leadership development and collective capability.
How it influenced CxCD: Shaped the Pacific and Pasifika community infrastructure application.

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University of Melbourne

Collective Potential impact report

Methods: Qualitative synthesis, evidence-to-decision translation and evaluation framing.
How it influenced CxCD: Contributed to the research and evaluation capability grouping.

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Keystone Radiology

Organisational culture and human systems

Methods: Organisational review, decision-making and ways of working design.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed the Workplace CxCD application and 90-day implementation approach.

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W. L. Gore

Organisational culture and human systems

Methods: Facilitation, culture and ways of working.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed practice on distributed authority and role clarity.

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Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Organisational culture and human systems

Methods: Facilitation, leadership and team practice.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed large-workforce implementation practice.

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ICC Sydney

Organisational culture and human systems

Methods: Facilitation and organisational practice.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed practice on meetings, communication systems and accountability.

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CareerSeekers

Organisational culture and inclusion practice

Methods: Facilitation and participatory practice.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed Restoring Dignity application development.

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Safe and Equal

Sector and organisational practice

Methods: Facilitation, participatory inquiry and organisational learning.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed feminist practice and repair capability.

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Medical Pantry

Organisational and social enterprise practice

Methods: Facilitation and systems practice.
How it influenced CxCD: Informed social enterprise application of CxCD.

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ASHM

Research and evaluation practice

Methods: Participatory inquiry and evaluation framing.
How it influenced CxCD: Contributed to evaluation framework development.

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Birdcage

Women's leadership and feminist practice

Methods: Leadership retreats, facilitator development and participatory practice.
How it influenced CxCD: Shaped female facilitator development within CxCD capability building.

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