Online Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Workshop
Event description
Join this interactive 3-hour online workshop to gain an awareness and understanding of the culture, history and experiences of Australia's First Peoples. Delivered within a culturally safe and inclusive framework, you will have the opportunity to learn, discuss and have your questions answered.
Presented by Auspire - Australia Day Council WA and facilitated by a First Nations' educator, this workshop explores the values and belief systems of Aboriginal people, and discusses the impacts of colonisation and how these still play out today.
This session is ideal for individuals and teams starting out their Aboriginal Cultural Competency journey, to facilitate real and lasting change through changed attitudes and behaviours at both a professional and personal level.
Topics Include
- Understanding Aboriginal history
- Key cultural protocols
- Aboriginal values and belief systems
- The impact of colonisation and dispossession
- Working together for a better future
Workshop participants receive a certificate of participation and a resources list to help continue their journey.
A tax invoice is provided for tax purposes.
Please note this workshop is authentic and as such may contain or allude to strong language that could be considered offensive to some participants.
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About the facilitator
Ethan Chadd
Ethan Chadd is a young Whadjuk, Ballardong Noongar man from the Kwinana area, with family connections that stretch as far south as Bunbury/ Albany, as east as Kellerberrin and as far north as Tom Price.
Ethan’s career started in Aboriginal health, delivery services to Aboriginal people, once becoming qualified Ethan then moved into public health specialising in chronic disease management and education. Ethan has since moved into the employment, training and education sector, where he became highly successful supporting organisations to attract, employ, upskill and retain Aboriginal people, as well as reverse market Aboriginal people to support them gaining employment. From this Ethan then moved into chairing, developing, implementing and reviewing RAP’s, Ethan then moved into the OOHC sector, where he became a cultural and diversity specialist ensuring Aboriginal children and other children of different cultures always had access to their respective cultures, healing and family connections within the sector and WA.