COPRRRA Ways of Working & Membership Expectations
Our Collective Commitment
COPRRRA’s values include:
• Community-led and justice oriented: We centre the perspectives, needs, and aspirations of communities, particularly those facing structural disadvantage, cultural loss, dispossession, or past harms.
• Collaborative learning and joint inquiry: We embrace curiosity, collective problem solving, and co-creation of knowledge across professional boundaries.
• Trust, respect, and reciprocity: We create a supportive environment where people can share candidly, where diverse views are welcomed, and where contributions are acknowledged and valued.
• Evidence informed and practice grounded: We work to improve practice through sharing lived experience, research insights, and lessons from real world relocation initiatives.
• Long-term relationship building: We recognise that relocation is a long horizon process and commit to nurturing relationships that support sustained learning and collective action.
What Members Can Expect from COPRRRA
COPRRRA activities will include:
• Regular learning spaces: Opportunities to participate in 60–90 minute online sessions every 2–3 months, an annual in-person workshop, and occasional place based knowledge exchanges.
• Knowledge sharing: Learn from Australian and international relocation experiences through shared challenges, peer learning, and community narratives
• Cross sector connections: Engage in facilitated introductions, network mapping, and collaboration opportunities across communities, professions, and jurisdictions.
• Policy and planning engagement: Opportunity to engage with policy actors, contribute practitioner insights, and shape best practice standards and principles.
• Shared tools and resources: Benefit from applied tools, co produced outputs, and curated knowledge drawn from research, industry, and community practice.
COPRRRA Membership
Membership is open to community leaders, NGOs, researchers, consultants, and government representatives (local, state, federal) engaged in or considering relocation and retreat.
To create a meaningful and thriving community of practice, members are invited to:
• Participate consistently: Engage in sessions and contribute perspectives, questions, and reflections that support collective learning.
• Share practice: Bring real challenges, lessons learned, and work-in-progress, including the practical, political, social, and emotional dimensions of relocation.
• Uphold a safe and respectful space: Maintain confidentiality, respect sensitive information, and help amplify diverse voices.
• Contribute to evolving practice: Share insights, tools, and dilemmas, and raise emerging topics or gaps in practice that the community should address.
• Support community-led principles: Ensure discussions reflect community priorities, acknowledge past and ongoing harms, and promote ethical, equitable, place-based approaches to relocation.
Ways of Working (How We Operate as a CoP)
Our ways of working provide a flexible structure that supports collective learning, collaboration, and practical action:
• Chathum House Rules: Any ideas can be shared beyond this group, but nothing will be linked back to any individual or organisation to protect privacy and enable free discussion.
• Shared learning agenda: The learning agenda evolves based on member needs and emerging relocation challenges
• Multiple modes of participation: Members can engage through group discussions, peer exchange, co-produced outputs, and informal networking
• Flexible structure and facilitation: COPRRRA maintains a light structure with responsive facilitation that supports member needs, fosters safe and inclusive discussions, strengthens relationships, and helps translate learning into practical action
• Commitment to impact: The community aims to strengthen relocation practice, influence equitable policy and planning, improve tools and standards, and build stronger connections among those working on relocation and retreat across Australia.