Language Leadership Program
The Language Leadership Program provides tailored intensive training, cross-cultural experiences and networking opportunities for language workers and teachers around the country.
The Program sees us running a Language Leadership Workshop once a year. Due to high interest in this program, when we are looking for a new cohort to take part, we advertise the workshop and hold an application process for people that would like to join us. Read about the Language Leadership Workshop (LLW) below:
Intensive Training
We work with participants to identify what training the workshops should include and create training programs to accommodate the overall needs of the group attending.
The topics we offer in these workshops are based on the topics we offer in our Community-based Workshops, but the training is normally more intensive and more advanced.
See our training topics here.
Cross-Cultural Experiences
We like to hold our Language Leadership Workshops in partnership with community-based organisations, to be able to provide insights into the day-to-day workings of a Language Centre or established language programs.
Throughout the workshop there are also opportunities for participants to hear from and share with people from different language groups.
Wherever workshops are held, we like to bring on the local community to be able to share language and culture with the groups we bring together.
Networking Opportunities
Everyone invited to our LLW works with language in different roles within their communities.
This allows people to share ideas & thoughts, provide advice to one another and build relationships with like-minded people from around the country or their state.
We try to create the space in our workshops for this relationship-building to happen.
We like to support the ongoing networking between the group (and other people working with language) by providing opportunities for group activities, sharing and support.
History of the Program
Our Language Leadership Program was first funded by ILA and piloted in 2014. Before being called the Language Leadership Program, this program was called our Professional Development Program.
From 2014 to 2019 these workshops were always held in Melbourne. With the restrictions and changes that COVID-19 brought us in 2020, it pushed us to reframe and rework the model of this program. 2021 saw us provide two state-based workshops held in Nambucca Heads, NSW and in Cairns, Qld.
The change of name for this program came about because it was clear that our graduates have gone on to do some great language work in their communities, regions and even nationally.
We now invite people that have been through this program, and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that work in language work, to join us in the delivery of Language Leadership Workshops and to mentor or support other language workers around the country.
Interested in our Language Leadership Program?
If you are interested in this program, we advertise when applications open on our website and social media, as well as in our Newsletter.