cultural training

Our Cultural Learning Workshops include:

Yarnin about Cultural Safety (YACS)

Designed for mainstream organisations delivering family violence and other support services to First Nations peoples, primarily women. Focused on building culturally safe environments and culturally aware practitioners.

Heard It Hear First (HIHF) 

Intended for businesses, policy specialists, government departments, and others whose work impacts upon the lives of First Nations people experiencing or at risk of family violence. It invites participants to challenge their personal values and assumptions about Aboriginal peoples, and offers new ways of thinking, speaking, and writing about First Nations peoples.

Invisible No More (INV)

Speaks directly to the Victorian legal profession, including courts, magistrates and related organisations. Reveals the dramatic and damaging impacts of laws and legal practice on Aboriginal women and their children from invasion through to the present.

Foundation Knowledge

These three online workshops share the rich cultural life of First Nations peoples over thousands of years; we explore recent history, the impact of colonisation, and then outline the continuing devastating effects today of the imposition of a white world on the lives of our people. This is foundation knowledge which we believe benefits everyone. Relevant parts of this foundation knowledge are blended into each of the workshops described above.

Each workshop is delivered online, over three hours, for 20–30 participants per session.

For more information, or to obtain a quote, please contact our team on culturalprojects@djirra.org.au