Evolve Communities specialises in training that increases cultural competence, achieves Reconciliation goals, inspires Allyship, and ultimately builds stronger, more inclusive and productive workplaces.

In this workshop Aunty Munya and Carla Rogers will take Volunteer Managers and Coordinators through a session on communication, Cultural baggage and unconscious bias specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities

Topics in this workshop include:

Cultural baggage as a form of unconscious bias – maintaining awareness of it and how to work with it
Aboriginal English
Cultural differences in communication, including body language

Cost: Free

This event is for NSW Volunteer Managers and Coordinators. These sessions are not recorded and are intended to be live workshops.

Availability: Tickets for this event are limited and restricted to one per organisation. If you register and find you are unable to attend please let us know so we can transfer your ticket to the wait list.

This workshop is worth 1 CPD point.

About Evolve Communities
Evolve specialises in training that increases cultural competence, achieves Reconciliation goals, inspires Allyship, and ultimately makes for a stronger, more inclusive and productive workplace.

Evolve are providers for the Australian Government, a range of NGOs and our corporate clients include well known brands, and some of Australia’s largest employers, Nestle, IBM, Atlassian and the Woolworths Group. Large or small, we place our clients at the heart of what we do.

About Presenters: Aunty Munya and Carla Rogers
Our Leaders together bring unique and deep experience and model Reconciliation and Allyship. Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Munya Andrews - an author, barrister and cultural expert with lived experience of Indigenous disadvantage, and Carla Rogers a non-Indigenous facilitator, learning designer and engagement expert. They have combined these skills and perspectives to design simple, practical and relevant approaches for all Australians.

Aunty Munya, a Bardi woman originally from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, has wide-ranging experience in Indigenous matters, community empowerment and the law. Steeped in Aboriginal cultural laws and traditions, she is a strong advocate of culturally appropriate ways of working with Aboriginal people and their communities. Renowned for her intellectual prowess and sharp mind, she is forwarded by Melbourne University as a ‘leading Australian thinker’. Carla is one of the most experienced providers of facilitation, stakeholder and community engagement services in Australia and has developed unique and award
winning approaches to both engagement and facilitation.

Both Aunty Munya and Carla have held senior executive positions in government, have won significant awards and have had their work cited as best practice (e.g. Guidelines for Australian Indigenous Protected Area Management Plans, CSIRO.) Awards include a Churchill Fellowship, International Award for Innovation in Public Participation (IAP2) and National Planning Excellence Award (Planning Institute of Australia).