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This is Hot House Community Projects

Hot House is about creating a nurturing environment where communities can grow and thrive.

Hot House Community Projects is an emerging social enterprise, based in the west of Melbourne, with a focus on learning and development through transformational pedagogies

and community development principles.

Hot House works with community in all its glorious diversity in local neighbourhoods, along with workers in the human services and social sectors (including community, youth, health, education, local government) to build great communities and better futures for people and planet! 

Hot House is founded and led by Helen Rodd,

an experienced community development practitioner and educator.

Check out Helen on Radio National's Life Matters, discussing how to build community

with the fabulous Dee Brooks!

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The Hot House values and approach is embedded in community development principles and practice.

 

We aspire to work in ways that support the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. 

Start with what they know.

Build with what they have. 

The best of leaders are those that, 

when the job is done, 

when the task is accomplished, 

the people will say 

we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

leadership

PROGRAMS

Working with communities to strengthen knowledge, skills, networks, confidence and courage to lead local change and build thriving communities

Learning & DEVELOPMENT

Developing community and practitioner knowledge and skills through active, experiential and transformational pedagogies 

Research & FACILITATION

Dynamic and sensitive facilitation of groups of all shapes and sizes.

Building practice wisdom through community- based research and evaluation

hot house living lab

The Living Lab is a not-for-profit, registered charity focussing on community sheds and neighbourhood houses as sites for local leadership, resilience and thriving

We have had the privilege to work with...

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, especially the lands of the Kulin Nations whose countries surround the city of Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

 

We recognise their sovereignty and continuing connection to land, waters and culture, and the importance of the current and ongoing dialogue for Treaty and a Voice to parliament. We recognise the sorrow this struggle brings and admire their strength to continue. We are appalled by the impact of our colonial past but see that all of us have benefited from this dispossession.

 

We give our commitment to being good allies towards the achievement of justice and healing. This includes honouring the work and ways of knowing of First Nations people with whom we collaborate.

We publicly acknowledge the grief, loss, sadness and vulnerability of survivors and victims of family, private & gender-based violence. In recognition we commemorate children, young people, adults and older adults surviving and those who have died as a result of such violence. Please take 30 seconds of quiet contemplation for change and reflect on HOPE, COURAGE and HEALING for victims, our community and ourselves.

Thank you Güler Altunbas for these words. See www.shrineforus.com

E: info@hothouseprojects.org     P. 0437 747 600

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 © 2021- 2025 Helen Rodd,

Hot House Community Projects,

Hot House Living Lab.

Hot House ABN 78 691 717 215

Living Lab ABN 30 447 196 721

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