Future Rural Leaders Program
The MSRF Future Rural Leaders Program is based on a week-long residential training program. All MSRF scholarship holders participate in the program, and additional participants are selected on merit, based on their MSRF scholarship applications. Attendance is by invitation only.
Program aims:
- Grow existing leadership skills in young, rural Victorians
- Foster new leadership skills in young, rural Victorians
- Build a network of young rural leaders in Victoria
Program overview:
- Seven day residential program conducted in rural Victoria each year
- Open to youth participants from rural & regional Victoria
- Designed for young people with demonstrated leadership capabilities or potential
- Focus on “transformational leadership” – the ability to drive positive change in a rural community
- Experiential learning based on group activities and supplemented by guest speakers
- Participants are selected based on merit
- All participants leave with a clear action plan for a project to help their own community, and membership of the MSRF alumni network
- All participants are provided with meals, accommodation and a travel allowance
- Proven international course content and certified coaches provided by Lucca Leadership Australia
Please note: Participants will be selected based on the strength of their scholarship applications.
Photographs from January 2012 Future Rural Leaders Program:
