{"id":9051,"date":"2025-04-08T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:05:35","slug":"case-study-5-4-the-natural-flow-of-landcare-group-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/case-study-5-4-the-natural-flow-of-landcare-group-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: The Natural Flow of Landcare Group Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-block issue-block\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Knowing when to step in and when to step back as a coordinator in navigating the natural cycle of Landcare Groups<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/header>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Landcare groups, like any community-driven initiative, experience phases of growth, consolidation, and reflection. As a result we can see Landcare groups become quite disheartened when they reach low points in the adaptive cycle. Making it harder to boost morale and progress forward into a new chapter of growth.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Understanding when to actively support a group\u2019s development and when to allow organic momentum to take its course can be a tricky question for Landcare Coordinators. Knowing when to step in and guide a group though the highs of growth or step back and allow a group to cycle through the lows of reflection and rebirth<\/span>.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Murrumbidgee-Landcare-Inc-The-Natural-Flow-of-Landcare-Group-Life-Case-Study-1.pdf\">Case study: The Natural Flow of Landcare Group Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"hr-thin\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"tag-line\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0LEP23_036_LLC4_5<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Knowing when to step in and when to step back as a coordinator in navigating the natural cycle of Landcare Groups Landcare groups, like any community-driven initiative, experience phases of growth, consolidation, and reflection. As a result we can see Landcare groups become quite disheartened when they reach low points in the adaptive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lep-case-studies","pmpro-has-access","category-341","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9598,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/9598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}