Summary of activities
| Activity 1: Stories about people's connections to country | Indigenous partners were asked to talk about the way in which they connected to country and to provide examples of activities undertaken on country when making those “connections”. They wrote down key words/ideas on post-it notes, which were subsequently grouped into “themes”, with arrows used to show the way in which the themes were connected |
| Activity 2: What people do to protect/look after those connections | Indigenous partners were asked to describe the management activities, priorities and actions undertaken to best protect the connections they spoke about during the first session. As for activity one, key concepts were first written on post-it notes, and then grouped into themes, with arrows used to show connections between the themes |
| Activity 3: Conceptualization of the Country-people system | Indigenous partners were asked to talk about the way in which the ideas/concepts developed in the first two activities fit together – effectively blending the two models into one. They were also asked to talk about whether they were satisfied/happy with different parts of the system |
| Activity 4: Relevance of the western concepts of ecosystem accounting [7] | Researchers provided examples of different types of services (with ten cards providing visual examples, the selection based upon services that had been included in the UN-SEEA project). Indigenous partners were asked to fit these cards into their narrative as appropriate, and also add any additional ES they saw as important |
| Activity 5: Presenting conceptual model to the Indigenous partners | Researchers synthesized information from activities 1–4 and presented the synthesis to Indigenous members to check for completeness and accuracy. Indigenous members were then asked to identify and subsequently prioritize projects/activities that could be undertaken to strengthen/improve their connections to country or other components of their conceptual model |
| Activity 1: Stories about people's connections to country | Indigenous partners were asked to talk about the way in which they connected to country and to provide examples of activities undertaken on country when making those “connections”. They wrote down key words/ideas on post-it notes, which were subsequently grouped into “themes”, with arrows used to show the way in which the themes were connected |
| Activity 2: What people do to protect/look after those connections | Indigenous partners were asked to describe the management activities, priorities and actions undertaken to best protect the connections they spoke about during the first session. As for activity one, key concepts were first written on post-it notes, and then grouped into themes, with arrows used to show connections between the themes |
| Activity 3: Conceptualization of the Country-people system | Indigenous partners were asked to talk about the way in which the ideas/concepts developed in the first two activities fit together – effectively blending the two models into one. They were also asked to talk about whether they were satisfied/happy with different parts of the system |
| Activity 4: Relevance of the western concepts of ecosystem accounting | Researchers provided examples of different types of services (with ten cards providing visual examples, the selection based upon services that had been included in the UN-SEEA project). Indigenous partners were asked to fit these cards into their narrative as appropriate, and also add any additional ES they saw as important |
| Activity 5: Presenting conceptual model to the Indigenous partners | Researchers synthesized information from activities 1–4 and presented the synthesis to Indigenous members to check for completeness and accuracy. Indigenous members were then asked to identify and subsequently prioritize projects/activities that could be undertaken to strengthen/improve their connections to country or other components of their conceptual model |