Beyond Colonialism

Workshop - maximum 18 participants
This workshop runs for four hours and includes a short break for a light lunch, which will be provided. People with dietary restrictions are invited to bring their own food. Tea, coffee, water will be provided. People with dietary restrictions are invited to bring their own food. Kitchen facilities are available.

Venue
Moondani Balluk, Lizzie & Uncle Jack Charles Room G105, Building G, Victoria University - Footscray Park Campus. See MAP.

Parking & Access
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Methods
This workshop draws on lived experience, indigenous knowledge systems, post-colonial theory, narrative therapy, racial and trauma theory. The workshop entails a relational and embodied approach to explore how colonialism intersects in your everyday practice, how to assess the inter and intra personal, systemic and structural forces of colonialism and offers a practical approach and tools to guide your work practice towards countering colonialism.

Suitability
This workshop is suitable for First Nations allies, policy makers, managers, boards, executives, psychologists, educators, health and social workers, community services and justice services staff.

Outcomes
This work will strengthen participants:

• knowledge and awareness of colonising processes and how they work; and
• skills to identify the roles we play and how each of us can counter these processes; and
• capacity to act to influence change to decolonise ourselves, the systems and structures that we live and work within.

About the facilitator, Rob Patton
Rob brings significant insights into the experience of what it's like to live as a colonised person based on his own lived experience and 40 years working alongside indigenous communities. Rob is a social worker by training and has a background in community development, family and psychodynamic therapy.
Rob has developed this workshop to raise awareness of the mechanisms and forces that oppress and subjugate so many in contemporary settings. Rob has directly witnessed the multiple impacts on people resulting from a lack of knowledge, skills and consideration of colonialism in everyday life, in health and other services. He brings first hand insight into how to decolonise and bring about change.

Financial hardship
People facing financial hardship are welcome to contact the Host to discuss pricing for attendance.