Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Aboriginal People Strengths Based Practices Workshop - Day 1

Venue TBC - Western Sydney

Please note:

This is the first day in a set of two sessions, if you wish to attend day two you will need to register following this link:

https://events.humanitix.com/aboriginal-cultural-awareness-and-aboriginal-people-strengths-based-practice-workshop-day-2

Overview

Day 1 Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Workshop

TERPIMA YAKA (to listen, to learn)

Providing participants with the foundations required to work more effectively with Aboriginal people.

This 1-day course is designed to build on people’s skills in providing services to Aboriginal people in ways that respect and support the diversity of Aboriginal cultures, and value the strengths in Aboriginal individuals, families and communities.

This interactive workshop is conducted in a culturally safe and non-judgemental environment where participants are encouraged to question freely and with respect.

The workshop includes historically factual material and has been designed to assist people in identifying past policies and practices and their impact on contemporary Aboriginal people.

The course is founded on encouraging workers develop their own solutions around more effective service delivery, as well as sound partnership building.

Workshop topics includes:

• Aboriginal cultures, nations & protocols, family & kinship systems

• Discrimination, myths & stereotypes

• The impact of colonisation and its effect on contemporary Aboriginal peoples

• Current statistics regarding Aboriginal people

• Aboriginal identity and how to improve communication

 
About the facilitator:

Felicity (Flic) Ryan is a Wadi Wadi woman and her mother’s family are freshwater people from the mallee area of Victoria, specifically around the Murray River (Miilu). She also has strong family connections to the Wemba Wemba and Yorta Yorta people around this region. Flic’s father is of Scottish background and his family hail from the area below Glasgow in the central lowlands.

Flic spent 13 years working within both State and Local Government areas and her previous roles include Women and Children’s Refuge Worker, Child Protection Officer, Community Development Officer, HIV Care and Support Officer and Sexual Health Worker.

Flic has been an accredited trainer for the past 19 years and now specialises in the development and delivery of face-to-face training packages designed around Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Competency, Self-Care for Aboriginal Workers, Aboriginal Health and Employment, Aboriginal People and Lateral Violence, and Teambuilding. She is particularly interested in assisting Aboriginal people up-skill within the workforce and has also tailored packages around Facilitating Workshops and Working with Small Groups. Each of Flic’s workshops are grounded in strengths-based concepts and focus on the well-being and advancement of Aboriginal peoples and strengthening partnerships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Who should attend?

This is a NADA member event.

Frontline support and clinical staff from any NADA member service are welcome to attend. There will be a limit of two staff per service. If you have more staff wanting to attend, please email raechel@nada.org.au and we will place these staff on a waitlist.

How do I register?

To register, please click the button Get tickets at the top. Your registration will be confirmed via email.

Other information

Please note: Participants must complete the Aboriginal Cultural Awareness workshop prior to attending day 2 workshop Aboriginal People and Strengths-Based Practices.

Due to limited spaces, there will be a limit of two staff per service. If you have more staff wanting to attend, please email raechel@nada.org.au, and we will place them on a waitlist.

For more information about the workshop

Please email raechel@nada.org.au