Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 4 of 8 · Agenda

Keeping Strong

Thursday 11 June 2026 · 11:00–13:00 · Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia

Modules

Lead

Metia

Co-fac

Mandy

In room

Lukas

Timeline

Time	What	Who leads
11:00–11:06 6 min	Welcome back + Acknowledgement Session 4 of 8 · group knows each other - keep it short and warm	Mandy or Metia opens (Mandy's choice) + agreed reader (Acknowledgement)
11:06–11:11 5 min	Housekeeping + today's roadmap Standard block · NO dedicated housekeeping slide in this deck - run it verbally off slide 4	Metia
11:11–11:21 10 min	Icebreaker From M7 · one thing this week that made you feel good	Mandy (goes first)
11:21–11:48 27 min	What is 'Keeping Strong'? From M7 · definition + four quadrants + CA realities + culture and Country	Metia (Mandy adds one example per quadrant)
11:48–12:00 12 min	Activity intro + EXAMPLES walkthrough From M7 · worksheets out · first pass before lunch	Metia (setup) · Mandy (shares her own answers)
12:00–12:15 15 min	Lunch + break Catering on at 12:00 · 15 min standard - extend to 20 if the room is cold	All
12:15–12:37 22 min	Keeping Strong worksheet (the work) From M7 · P6 booklet page · the protected activity	Both walk the room - Mandy offers scribing
12:37–12:46 9 min	Share-back From M7 · optional · one thing from any box	Mandy (shares first) + Metia
12:46–13:00 14 min	Wrap-up + feedback + Appreciations + next week From M7 · Appreciations is the new going-out ritual	Metia (wrap) · Mandy (runs Appreciations)

What we keep

M7 runs near-full - first single-module session of the cohort, no folding, room to breathe
The full slides 6-9 arc: definition, four quadrants, CA realities, culture + Country - with slide 9 handled exactly as designed (read as written, 'That's yours.', never author)
10-min icebreaker back in (M7-native: 'one thing this week that made you feel good')
Two-block activity pattern preserved: intro + EXAMPLES + start before lunch, finish after
Share-back optional with pass - co-fac shares first, fresh content
Appreciations introduced as the going-out ritual - Mandy runs it, models specific
Worksheet is the protected activity - if behind, trim share-back or the 'one thing' round, never the work block

Held over to next session

Source module written for 10:00-12:00 - shifted to our 11:00-13:00 block; the mid-session 15-min break becomes the standard 12:00 lunch block (catering pattern from S1-S3)
Housekeeping block added (planner standard since S2) - the 16-slide M7 deck has no housekeeping slide, so it runs verbally off slide 4; welcome compressed from the source's 10+5 min to 6+5 to fund it
'What is Keeping Strong' stretched 25 -> 27 min - single module means slide 9 gets unhurried handling
Deck slide 3 says 'Week 7' (NT 9-week module numbering) - facilitator says 'Session 4' to the room; flag the label to the deck build
Heat-day variant not in play (June session) - cold-morning variant active instead: hot drinks, heaters, break extendable to 20 min
Easy Read variant (sentence-starter scaffold, scribing-default) specified in the worksheet but lands at Phase 7 - scribing offer covers the gap this delivery
DAS-original quadrant icons for the P6 worksheet still blocked on the Phase 4.5 design pass - print the current spec version

Laptop + projector with S4 deck preloaded (16 slides, built from the M7 spec) - do not depend on cloud
Keeping Strong worksheet (4 pages, one question per page) (P6 blank, A3) - 1 per participant + 5 spare
Keeping Strong EXAMPLES handout (A3, CA examples) - 1 per participant, held back until slide 11
Per-session (Layer 1, traffic light) feedback forms - 1 per participant; SW feedback forms for attending support workers
Pens, pencils, textas + large-grip pens for scribing-supported participants
Hot drinks from arrival - tea, coffee, hot water (June-August cold-morning variant); heaters on early
Tissues - 1 box on the table (soft permission for emotional moments)
Mandy's script notes on paper, if she wants them (per Co-Fac Handbook)
CA Leadership Story 8 (Tony and the footy team) - printed, back pocket for a flat room
Topics tracker - tick Session 4 at the wrap
Group Agreement poster (from S1, on the wall)
Camera (only with Photo Permission Form consent)
Catering for 12:00 per dietary requirements - confirmed headcount day-before
First aid kit

Participant flags + needs are on the Emergency contacts and Run sheet (facilitator-only) — kept off the agenda to keep this one scannable.

Adapted for Central Australia by DAS, in partnership with Inclusion NT under the PATH MOU 2025–26. Original curriculum © Inclusion NT.