Building Aboriginal Cultural Safety in the Workplace For Organisations

Continue your journey towards creating a workplace that embraces mutual respect, shared understanding, and enriching experiences.

Workshop Overview

Our Half-Day Workshop (four hours face-to-face or online) is aimed at participants who have trained in Aboriginal Cultural Competency and Awareness.

Participants explore how Cultural Safety applies to them and their workplace through discussion and individual and group exercises, all presented by one of our experienced facilitators. The program works on the process of organisational and self-reflection, based on a specific workbook designed by our Education Team. This enables individuals and organisations to consider their own values and beliefs and how these may influence the workplace.

It is highly recommended that before attending this workshop, participants have a solid understanding of Cultural Competency and Awareness, which can be done by attending our Building Aboriginal Cultural Competency program.

Workshop Content

• What is Cultural Safety? Where it comes from; importance within the workplace; Cultural Safety principles and practices.
• Understanding our own culture (self-reflection and organisational reflection)
• Types of bias and what influences cultural bias (conscious and unconscious)
• The journey to reaching Cultural Safety proficiency
• Identifying organisational Cultural Safety

Learning Outcomes

• Reflect on how individual attitudes and values influence perceptions, assumptions and behaviours within the workplace
• Raise participant knowledge about the diversity of cultural experiences
• What a Culturally Safe workplace looks like
• Plan towards creating a Culturally Safe workplace

General

Participants and Bookings

So that participants can gain the maximum benefit and engage with the facilitator, we require a minimum of 10 people per group, capped at 25.

Venue and Dates

Training is best conducted onsite at KHT, offering immersion in a culturally rich environment, within an Aboriginal organisation employing Aboriginal staff. Program dates are negotiated case-by-case. You may nominate your own venue: this means you must manage the venue booking and take responsibility for ensuring all necessary costs are met, and IT facilities and support provided. Program dates are negotiated case-by-case.

Materials

These include PowerPoint handouts and other resources, provided beforehand via email.

Facilitators and Expectations

Aboriginal facilitators deliver our programs, offering their personal stories and experiences within the context of the teachings. They have extensive work and community services history, and experience in a range of private, business, community, and government positions.

Our facilitators have a demonstrated understanding of Aboriginal Cultural Competency and create a safe, trusting, and friendly environment to allow participants to share information and ask questions in a comfortable atmosphere and safe space.

The programs include appropriate practical examples, high-level responses to participant questions, and awareness of the challenges within a complex, client-focussed environment.

Program Cost

Half-Day (face-to-face or online)

Recommended group size between 10 and 25.
$2,500 + GST (Flat rate).
Duration: Four hours (face-to-face and online), inclusive of breaks.

Contact

For further information, please contact:
Tim Stares, Education Coordinator
03 8662 6300 [email protected]

Terminology

While the term Koorie is commonly used to describe Aboriginal people of South-East Australia, we have used the term Aboriginal in this brochure to include all people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) descent who are living in Victoria. We recognise the diversity of Aboriginal people living throughout Victoria including Koories and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.