Over five days, participants engaged in a program of activities, combining systems design workshops and immersive experiences on Country with healing and creative practices. The program focused around our collective enquiry:
Guided by the overarching themes of matriarchal strength and intergenerational knowledge, we explored how our inner knowing and centuries of wisdom offer us practices and processes that can shape liveable and thriving systems. As we examined what peacebuilding means in our contexts, we discovered that this deep relational work generates the kind of evidence that can truly guide systems change.
The Camp revealed that when we work from this place of knowing, new tools naturally emerge for our collective medicine bag—practices and approaches that can only arise from being together in this sacred way, reminding us that the most powerful work happens through relationships, time and trust, with Country holding and guiding us throughout.
We were also joined by BighART and a collective of artists to share and capture stories of matriarchal power and practice through Punkaliyarra.
The Camp marks the beginning of the Institute’s staged approach to create a national infrastructure that supports women's leadership, exchanges knowledge, coordinates efforts, and builds evidence of how to drive systemic change through a peacebuilding approach.
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