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• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community

The student workbook is an essential component of our new program and the graphic design team at our funding partner EG added just the right pizzaz to make it pop...

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community

After 12 months of design and collaboration, our new program came to life...

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Community

Should we focus on highly impactful, intensive interventions delivered to few beneficiaries, or interventions with positive influence (at varying degrees) delivered to many?

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• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

Are you a photographer or videographer? Or both? We're looking for a talented volunteer to help us capture photos and videos of our new Wellbeing and Community Leadership program.

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• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community

With great pride we introduce to you our new facilitators. These facilitators will run our new program, set to launch in a matter of weeks.

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• category: Community, Fundraising 

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement celebrated annually in December. The day was created to remind and energise all people to give back to community and do good for the world.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

Atlassian Foundation has long supported The Helmsman Project including as a funding partner. Atlassian Foundation shares a commitment in wanting to support young people.

• posted by Belinda Robinson |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community

Belinda Robinson joined our team of professional coaches in 2020. She reflects on her first coaching experience on our programs, and the unique impact Covid-19 had on her experience.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills 

At the core of our programs are two fundamental methodologies: experiential learning and reflective process. Using these processes Kim reflects on leadership lessons from COVID.

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• category: Community, Fundraising 

We are very excited to welcome Steadfast Foundation as funding partner of The Helmsman Project.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Community

Kim reflects on how the 'water cooler conversations' and the benefits of those interactions don't exist in a work-from-home environment. The random, unplanned chats can often be one of the ways in which information flows between departments, collaboration ideas spark and organisational culture thrives. So how can we create a ‘water cooler’ effect in a remote working environment?

• posted by Matthew Robinson |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community

COVID 19 has had and is continuing to have a significant and substantial impact on the education of billions of students around the globe. Schools have been closed and teachers have had to develop remote educational experiences and content, almost overnight, using new and at times unfamiliar online technologies.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

As the reality of self-isolation, social distancing and home schooling sets in, I can’t help myself but to think that some positive - dare I say, great - things will come out of this dire situation.

• posted by Matt Robinson |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community, Life skills 

Our organisation has been working with young people for nearly seven years, supporting them to maintain a positive wellbeing, and we would like to offer families some of our expert knowledge in this space.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills 

Three of our groups were fortunate enough to attend a design thinking and team-building workshop hosted by Amazon Web Services Australia.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community, Life skills 

As the world faces unprecedented events due to coronavirus, 'business as usual' is disrupted. Appreciative Inquiry is a strengths-based leadership technique to engage in meaningful, positive conversations in support of successful change initiatives.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills , Research 

Innovation has become a positive buzzword in the business world. Everyone wants to innovate. Change, on the other hand, is this confronting state we need to try and 'manage'.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

We are very excited to announce Amazon Web Services Australia as a funding partner of The Helmsman Project.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills 

On Tuesday 11 February we launched our first round of programs for 2020 with a community project workshop day.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Coaching , Community, Fundraising , Research 

As we welcome a new year, Kim gives an overview on how The Helmsman Project is kickstarting 2020.

• posted by Leanne Pickering |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills 

The Technical Training Branch at Endeavour Energy conducted a 6-week program with some Year 9 Helmsman students. The program was designed to teach skills to manage risks, build confidence and prepare young people for employment.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Adventure education , Coaching , Community, Life skills 

On Wednesday 4 December, The Helmsman Project celebrated 63 young people from schools across Western Sydney completing our program. The Helmsman Project graduation is a highly anticipated event. It gives everyone an opportunity to hear directly from the students the impact the program has had on them.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community, Fundraising 

As we farewell another year, the time is ripe to take stock on where we are...

• posted by Zena Dabaja |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

Zena shares her reflection on the impact The Helmsman Project has not only on the participants, but the surrounding community.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Coaching , Community, Fundraising 

We have received excellent news from our Birrong Girls group who recently held a fundraising event as part of their community project. 

• posted by Tonnie Slater |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

We recently received exciting news that The Helmsman Project has been selected to receive a Community Grant from the Westpac Foundation for 2019. 

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

The Helmsman Project Youth Board was given the opportunity to run a two-hour workshop with 60 professionals from Macquarie Bank global offices.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

In my six years in the not-for-profit sector, I’ve come across really successful examples of corporate foundations engaging their employees in their community objectives. The best of these managed to not only generate a sense of purpose among their employees, but also made a tremendous impact on the charities they supported.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

We are very excited to announce Atlassian Foundation as a funding partner of The Helmsman Project.

• posted by Kim Larochelle |
• category: Coaching , Community

Kim's summary and reflection on attending the community project workshop day for our second wave of programs in 2019.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community, Fundraising 

On Friday 21 June, Goodman Foundation hosted their annual bake-off fundraiser in support of The Helmsman Project.

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Coaching , Community, Life skills 

We are proud to present the completed community project from our Term 1 2019 Cumberland high school boys group.

• posted by Robert Milne |
• category: About The Helmsman Project , Community

In my first week at The Helmsman Project I was lucky to visit the schools and meet the students enrolled in our programs. One of the highlights of The Helmsman Project’s program is the community projects which students plan and commit to once the program concludes....

• posted by Craig King |
• category: Community

We are so fortunate at The Helmsman Project to be assisted by dedicated, professional and skilled volunteers. We interviewed Craig King, Senior Graphic Designer at Goodman, who designs collateral on a variety of projects for us, and asked him about why he enjoys working with The Helmsman Project.  

• posted by The Helmsman Project |
• category: Community

We are so fortunate at The Helmsman Project to work with a group of dedicated, professional and skilled volunteers. In this blog, we speak to Corinne O’Sullivan, one of our amazing volunteers, on why she loves sharing her time and talent to helping The Helmsman Project.