Design | Evaluation | Facilitation | Participation

About

Leanganook Yarn facilitates collaborative effort and practice to build the foundation of projects, programs and organisations for improved effectiveness and to inspire change.

Our underlying approach is to use participatory and strength-based processes to assist you to do what you do better.  We support organisations, programs and projects to work more effectively in complex, cross-cultural environments.  We build deep analytical rigour for strategic direction.

Services

PLANNING & DESIGN

PLANNING & DESIGN

We use Theory of Change/program logic and outcome mapping to rigorously design projects, programs and undertake strategic planning.

FACILITATION

FACILITATION

We use a variety of processes and facilitation styles depending on an assessment of your needs. We are emergent facilitators: this means that we do good planning and preparation but on the day we facilitate what needs to be facilitated, adaptively, and if that means adjusting or throwing out the plans, then so be it.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Working with executive and leadership teams, we help to plan and implement organisational change.

Training

We hold public training events on all the methods and tools we use.

Click here to find out more about upcoming training.

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Projects

Indigenous Australia
PROJECTS
Indigenous Australia
Conservation & Natural Resource Management
PROJECTS
Conservation & natural resource management
Gender Equity
PROJECTS
Gender equity
Rural & Regional Australia
PROJECTS
Rural & regional Australia
Training
PROJECTS
Training

Our clients include:

Oxfam Australia

City of Greater Bendigo

Marwonga Aboriginal Corporation

Why Warriors NGO

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development

Bread for the World

Wide Bay Conservation Association, PNG

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA)

Caritas Australia

Anglicare PNG

Catholic Care Sandhurst

Go Goldfields (Maryborough)

St Lukes, Anglicare

Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Victoria

Native Title Services Victoria

Unity of the First Peoples’ Australia (Western Australia)

Women’s Health Loddon Mallee

Advocacy and Rights Centre (Central Victoria)

The team

NATALIE MOXHAM
NATALIE MOXHAM

Natalie is the principal consultant in participatory program design, monitoring and evaluation. This includes facilitation work in community development contexts, both internationally, and in Australia with Indigenous Australians, International NGOs and the Australian Community and Government sectors.

Natalie’s participatory approach uses Appreciative Inquiry, Theory of Change, Program Logic, Outcome Mapping and the Most Significant Change technique (MSC) and is taking a leading role in adapting the Most Significant Change technique.

Natalie works in Australia, the Asia Pacific and with Indigenous Australia.

ISABEL ROBINSON
ISABEL ROBINSON

Isabel is an international development practitioner, evaluator and writer with over 10 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector. As a Program Coordinator at the Anglican Board of Mission, Isabel managed DFAT-funded programs in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and China, with a focus on capacity building and the facilitation of community-led change. She has extensive research experience in the Asia-Pacific, including an evaluation of the DFAT-funded Vanuatu Church Partnership Program and a nation-wide quantitative survey in PNG on behalf of NGO Population Media Centre. Isabel is passionate about inclusive and participatory development, and is interested in creative methods of data collection, including the use of photography and film to capture stories of change. She speaks fluent Tok Pisin and Bislama, and is working on her Mandarin Chinese.

Collaborators

Leanganook Yarn collaborates with the following excellent people:

Linnet Good at Goodscribble www.goodscribble.com

Elizabeth Geddes www.elizabethgeddes.com

Duncan Rintoul & Vanessa Hood at Rooftop Social www.rooftopsocial.com

Comments from our clients:

“Leanganook Yarn is rigorous, inquiring, tailored, outcome focused, pragmatic, sustainable, ethical, values driven, grounded, local/global.  A unique combination of evaluation and OD expertise facilitating bridges to organisational/program effectiveness”  – Gini, Learning & Development Manager, Oxfam Australia

“Natalie works with people to help them discover their dreams and harness the power they have already and give them ways of thinking and doing and simply being that mean they can continue doing and being the best they can! She gently break down barriers between people so they see the gift in others”.  – Meagan, Manager Monitoring & Evaluation, Anglicare PNG

“Natalie gathers groups to creatively plan, learn and communicate”  – Carl, Indigenous Program Manager, Caritas Australia

“Natalie brings a lens to efforts and achievements” – Nikki, Program Manager Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Central Land Council

"Natalie effectively enquires, appropriately challenges, focuses and engages the team and transforms the work." – Jane, CEO Advocacy & Rights Centre

“Natalie coaxes insights and confidence to explore and enable positive change. Her methodologies provide clear and tangible pathways and working with her is a joy and inspiration” – Jane, Director Indigenous Health NSW, Australian Department of Health

Social & environmental sustainability

Leanganook Yarn is a social enterprise that strives for environmental sustainability.

Leanganook Yarn works with one client annually in a pro bono capacity. Wages are capped and any income earned above this is reinvested into collaborative projects. These are projects that build community and international tools and methods profiling Indigenous peoples’ methodological developments and improve indigenous led program design.

Leanganook Yarn strives for environmental sustainability – we are solar powered, and reuse, recycle and repurpose where possible.  We prefer workshops to involve non-bottled water, glass glasses and china plates and metal cutlery; and are happy to pitch in with the washing if that is an issue.  For catering, wholesome, organic meals from local sources is preferred.  The nature of this work involves a lot of travel and hence the consumption of carbon miles. To counter this, we undertake revegetation work, pulling weeds and planting native bush plants in two locations.

The name

Leanganook is the DjaDja Wurrung (the local Indigenous people) word for the mountain that dominates the landscape where we are based.  Leanganook is situated in the central goldfields, near the town of Castlemaine and in the Mount Alexander Shire, in Victoria, Australia. This is Dja Dja Wurrung country.

Yarn is a word used often in Australian Aboriginal English describing people talking to each other in a relaxed way.  It represents story telling and the significant place that yarning holds in building relationships and undertaking work with people, projects and organisations.  Yarn is also a thread used in many women’s craft, and for us represents women weaving their story into the strength of an organisation and program.  The yarn in women’s craft can hold their social, cultural and spiritual traditions and strength.  This is also about the consideration of gender in our work.

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