Several people asked for a version of the Conversation Matters - Conversations Matter lectures without pictures. Here they are!   more »

Marie presented a series of lectures for the Mature Adults Learning Association. A wide range of conversational processes were explored.   more »

The Goodbye Graffiti curriculum materials aim to: • increase the overall understanding in schools and more generally in the community about graffiti and its effects • increase understanding about the purposes of graffiti and other, legal, ways in which these purposes can be fulfilled • give a clear message to people who might be doing graffiti or thinking about doing graffiti that these activities are illegal.   more »

Adapted from Martin, M. 2004. The Nature of the Lived Experience of Co-Teaching: A Phenomenological Study, unpublished thesis). When co-teachers enter into a co-teaching experience, they want it to work. Their professional reputations, goals and aspirations are on the line. They want the experience to be ‘successful’ and ‘effective’. No matter what are their previous experiences, no matter why they are entering into co-teaching, regardless of whether it is a chosen or imposed way of working, co-teachers want to make the best of the situation.   more »

Morrison (2002: 5) wrote that “‘Complexity’ derives from the Latin root meaning ‘to entwine’”. Co-facilitation is ‘entwined’ in complex responses between co-facilitators, between co-facilitators and the group, and between the co-facilitators, the group and the culture, environment, and the wider world. Stacey (1996:119) pointed out that complex systems “seem to display a space for novelty, or creativity, located just at the end of system disintegration”. This paper applies these concepts of complexity in order to describe the experiences of co-facilitators.   more »

Good Food for New Arrivals (GFNA) is a nutrition awareness program designed to facilitate and improve access to sound and relevant information by newly arrived humanitarian and refugee families with young children.   more »

"The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. Economists and other social scientists have heeded its power for centuries; for just as long, politicians and popular opinion have largely ignored it." Norton   more »

These workshops were offered for the Mature Adults Learning Association in 2006 and specific workshops have been offered since for Loftus Community centre. The workshops explore issues facing grandparents in the 21st Century.   more »

Amongst the ‘public conversations’ we have designed, developed and/or delivered are:

·         teacher support materials for Aussie Lunch-Box World On-Line

·         curriculum materials for the Count Us In! Disability Awareness and Fundamental Movement Skills packages

·         learning packages for Constable Care

·         the evaluation of training programs for volunteers in not-for-profit organisation

·         facilitation of the 2005 Volunteering WA conference proceedings and evaluation

·         keynote addresses, papers, information sessions and seminars for conferences and other organisational events.

Disability Services Commission funded this project which provides curriculum materials for every level of schooling to support students in living and working with people with disabilities. http://www.dsc.wa.gov.au/2/312/105/Count_Us_In_cu.pm

Marie was the writer for the Curriculum Materials for this fabulous project. Not only does the site have great teaching and learning ideas, but there is also information for families about packing nutritious lunches.

In 2001, Marie Martin worked with Dr Beth Hands to develop a teacher resource for Fundamental Movement Skills. Parallel to the development of the project, Marie and Beth facilitated an action learning process with the teachers who participated. http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/shop/details.cfm?ProdID=284