TRAINING FOR YOUR WORKPLACE
What does cultural capacity training or being ‘culturally capable’ mean?
How do you know if you need cultural competency training or cultural awareness training?
Let’s go to the core question: What does it mean to be culturally capable? There are steps to achieving cultural safety within your organisation. With each team member having varying understandings or experiences. To understand cultural safety, we much distinguish it from cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity. This is not a political correctness, it is correcting the lack of education we as Australians have had access to about Australian Aboriginal people and culture. And how our actions today can help close the gap evident as a result of the past.
Aboriginal culture is diverse and dynamic. Cultural capacity training fosters workplace and community cultures to respect and value the skills, experiences, and perspectives of Aboriginal employees and citizens. Tapping into this rich cultural experience and understanding through a lens of cultural competence rewards all those who participate . You can join our scheduled training sessions open to the public – or have a session designed especially for your team.
1. Cultural Capacity Training: Historical overview [3 hours]
Interwoven with personal narratives this 3 hour workshop covers a wide range of topics to help the participant have a greater understanding and empathy of where we are at today
Included in your package: 1 presenter; survey monkey evaluation created, with data collated and presented in a report with recommendations; work booklet; and reference lists for further reading.
Optional extras are available as cost: Custom handouts, bush tucker, location hire, Smoking Ceremony, Welcome to Country, *on going advisory position, trouble shooting.
2. Cultural Capacity Training: Historical and Cultural immersion [6 hours]
The historical and application gives participants a chance to develop a greater understanding of a wide range of products while providing them to experience a cultural activity.
Included in your package: 2+ presenters; bush tucker catered morning tea and lunch; 2hr cultural activity (includes all materials – possible activities include: an Elders talk, a weaving workshop, a possum skin cloak workshop or a site visit with a local Elder; survey monkey evaluation created, with data collated and presented in a report with recommendations; work booklet; and eference lists for further reading.
Optional extras are available as cost: Custom handouts, location hire, Smoking Ceremony, Welcome to Country, *on going advisory position, trouble shooting.
3. Two-Day Cultural Capacity Training: Service improvement
A concise 2 hour session designed to provide an understanding of the Aboriginal Education Policy and how this relates to the local Aboriginal needs at your local school or centre. We then look at the barriers effecting all educators implementing such content and how we can work through these barriers to teach all students about Aboriginal Australia in a culturally appropriate way. Practical examples of how other educators have done this are shown with an emphasis on how they were developed. The session will encourage most educators to have a go at implementing Aboriginal perspectives.
Note: While whole of staff together works well in a primary school setting, it is best to have no more than two faculty groups per session in a high school. To allows for more subject specific dialogue.
