Join Human Geographer, Ishara Sahama, on a journey of (re)discovery around your personal values & ensuring they inform and guide you through your work, passions & social impact! This session is designed to amplify what makes you unique and how that is crucial to how you transform community and processes with the work you do! A not-to-be missed workshop for those who wish to work with community or on socio-environmental issues.
IN THIS CLASS:
- Understand your key personal values that makes you unique
- Recognise and ground your values to your passion(s)
- Transform your outlook to ensure your passions, work or social impact align with your values
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OUR SPECIAL GUEST FOR THIS CLASS:
Ishara Sahama is a passionate social and gender justice advocate, community organizer and education facilitator. She currently works in the NFP/social enterprise space, providing strategic thinking, community organising, project management and advisory support. Ishara is part of the founding team and board for two upcoming enterprises which focus on:
- transforming family businesses across Australian/New Zealand to for-purpose and for-planet businesses, and
- supporting, empowering and up-skilling Womxn in family business by addressing issues concerning intergenerational equity and gender
inequities
Ishara is also a Climate Reality Leader and community organizer for UNAA Young Professionals Queensland and The One Women Project. She has presented and organized several presentations, panel discussions, forums on topics such as the climate crisis, sustainable development goals (SDGs), youth engagement, anti-racism, gender equity in urban planning and environmental concerns and, intersectional justice. Ishara has particular career interest in ensuring that culturally and linguistically diverse and gender-fluid groups are recognized and included in civic decision-making processes pertaining to socio-economic and urban development. Ishara believes that by addressing system flaws and improving them through shared decision-making with diverse citizen participation, can systematically dismantle socio-environmental injustices in rural-urban areas. She graduated at the end of 2019 with a BA Honours Geography and BSc Geographical Sciences, from The University of Queensland.
Ishara is a Womxn of Colour, with mixed Sri Lankan cultural heritage.
Pronouns: She/her