Shifting Ground Workshop Series - Racial Literacy, Cultural Safety & Relational Work

This 3-part series is for participants who have already completed our Decolonisation Workshop. If you have not completed Decolonisation and would like to register for the 4-part pathway, please register here.

Workshop series:

Racial Literacy
Wed 27 August 2025,  12.00pm - 4.00pm AEST

Cultural Safety
Wed 17 Sep 2025,  12.00pm - 4.00pm AEST

Relational Work
Wed 15 Oct 2025, 12.00pm - 4.00pm AEDT

Designed by Genevieve Grieves (Worimi) and Dr Lilly Brown (Gumbaynggirr), and developed with our nation-wide team of facilitators, our training pathway offers a four part journey through Decolonisation, Racial Literacy, Cultural Safety and Relational Work, each module offering an inviting and interactive learning experience where participants are encouraged to engage in open dialogue and shared exploration.

These conversations create safe spaces to develop a critical language and understanding around decolonisation, race, privilege, power and whiteness, cultural safety and intercultural collaboration. They are designed to shape how you think, work, and lead, both personally and professionally, in relation to First Nations people and our shared colonial history and present. By cultivating conscious awareness of power and relationships, SHIFTING GROUND strengthens your capacity to act with purpose on, and navigate the complexities of, issues of culture and race.

Each module builds on the last to ensure a shared foundation, so we ask that you attend all workshops in the series.

About the workshops:

RACIAL LITERACY

The Racial Literacy workshop supports individuals and organisations to develop a linguistic competency around race. Participants will learn about the language of race (and whiteness) and how it structures the everyday lived realities of all people on this continent, yet remains invisible to many (particularly white, non-Indigenous) people. By naming the permeability of race, tracing its history and current implications, participants will begin a process of addressing the way it shifts and functions in their personal and professional lives and structures inequalities along racialised lines.  

CULTURAL SAFETY

In the Cultural Safety workshop, participants draw on and extend their knowledge of decolonisation and racial literacy to begin forging internal and external work practices and cultures that value the knowledge, stories, ways of doing and experiences, or in other words, humanity of First Peoples. Participants will come to understand that if their workplace is safe for First Peoples, then it is a safer place for all people. 

RELATIONAL WORK

How can you and your organisation prepare to work ethically and with integrity with First Peoples and all people? What might this ethical collaboration look like in practice? In the Relational Work workshop, participants will be introduced to best practice examples of community collaboration and ways of working with First Peoples. Participants will be encouraged to consider what ways of working are present, or perhaps absent, in their current practice and broader workplace. In doing so they will be supported to consider how these ways of working might impact, both positively and negatively,  the development and maintenance of relationships with First Peoples.

STRUCTURE:

• 3 x 4 hour workshops, (including breaks), guided by a First Nations facilitator

• Hosted virtually via Zoom

• Up to 20 participants

• Pricing is per person on a sliding scale and is inclusive of the 3 workshops
  

  If these dates don’t work for you, please fill in an expression of interest form and we'll get in touch when future workshops are scheduled. If you have any questions, or want to talk about training for your workplace, please contact us at info@shiftingground.com.au

NB: For this workshop to go ahead, a minimum number of participants is required. If we don't reach the minimum, we will be in touch to discuss re-scheduling or a refund.