This 1 hour workshop assists staff and students to understand cultural humility to enable cultural safety. The workshop provides the knowledge and tools to engage ethically and respectfully with a diversity of groups and individuals. Through interactive activities and thought provocations, participants are encouraged to consider their own positions of power and how this affects interactions with minoritised groups.

The workshop is part of the week-long Inclusion Festival hosted by the UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion.

Facilitated by Dr Elaine Laforteza

Dr. Elaine Laforteza works as an Equity and Diversity Project Officer (Cultural Diversity) at the University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies. Elaine has held academic positions at Macquarie University, Charles Sturt University, and UTS. She has taught, presented on and delivered training workshops on anti-racism, decolonisation and multiculturalism.

She has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, community media and is an emerging playwright. Her book, ‘The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race,’ is available through Routledge. She was also the host of the multi-award winning SBS podcast series ‘My Bilingual Family’.

Elaine co-established and hosted the Sydney iteration of Generation Women, a storytelling show that invites women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ to share stories based on a theme.