events
Walk alongside Shifting Ground by attending one of our events.
By joining us, you will strengthen your capacity to create spaces where First Nations voices and leadership are empowered. We are committed to deepening your understanding of colonisation, racism and relational practices.
UPCOMING EVENT
Decolonisation Workshops
Option 1: Thursday 13 November 2025, 11.00am to 3.00pm AEDT
Option 2: Thursday 27 November 2025, 11.00am to 3.00pm AEDT
Ticketed, Online Event (via Zoom)
Our Decolonisation Workshops provide participants with an understanding of how colonisation has and continues to operate globally, creating injustice and oppression. It also shares how decolonisation can be utilised to transform these systems and create innovative pathways forward.
The workshop is informative but also an intimate experience that asks participants to share aspects of their experience and reflect on their place in their own nation’s history and society. Through this positioning, we enmesh the participants in our shared history, connecting them with an understanding of their role in creating a positive future for all.
UPCOMING EVENT
First Nations Social Enterprise Circle
Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 April 2026
Garramilla/Darwin, Northern Territory
A groundbreaking gathering in Garramilla/Darwin for First Nations-owned and led social enterprises to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and strengthen one another, while laying the foundations for the creation of a First Nations Values Framework and Values Map.
PAST EVENT
The Story of Race:
Racial Literacy as a tool for social justice
Dianne Jones and Odette Kelada in conversation with Lilly Brown
Wednesday 29 October, 12:00 PM AEDT
Free, Online Event (via Zoom)
Co-hosted with Diversity Arts Australia and GARUWA
Across the globe we’re witnessing a growing backlash against any work that names systemic racism or colonial power. Theories that help us make sense of race are under attack because they’re effective: they expose the roots of inequality, and demand accountability. If your work engages with First Peoples, culturally and racially marginalised peoples, and communities impacted by injustice, the tools to speak about race and our history can help you identify power and drive real systemic justice, for the benefit of your practice and broader social justice.
Our systems are built to mask racism: to individualise the experience, deflect from it, dehumanise it, and make it unspeakable. This session asks, Who is afraid of race? And why is it so carefully protected?
PAST EVENT
From Consultation to Co-Creation: Strengthening Relational Practice
Clothilde Bullen and Ben Graetz in conversation with Genevieve Grieves
Wednesday 10 September, 12:00 PM AEST
Free, Online Event (via Zoom)
Co-hosted with Diversity Arts Australia and GARUWA
Co-creation is a commitment to equity, trust and the redistribution of power. This program demonstrates the critical relationship between self-determination and co-creation, and why ensuring First Nations peoples have control over creative cultural practice is fundamental in ethical, creative collaborations.
We explore how to strengthen relational practices by identifying who has power and understanding what it means to return it to those who hold responsibility of story, leading us to unpack what ethical collaborations look like and how we can activate models for First Nations leadership and co-design.
PAST EVENT
First Nations Principles for Social Enterprise Development
Rona Glynn-McDonald (Kaytetye, co-founder & Director of First Nations Futures & founder of Common Ground), Dr Blaze Kwaymullina (Palyku, Chairman of Emu Nest Investment Group), and Professor Deen Sanders OAM, (Worimi Man, Lead Partner, Deloitte Integrity) with Dr Lilly Brown and Genevieve Grieves
Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00 PM AEST
Free, Online Event (via Zoom)
Co-hosted with Understorey
Shifting Ground held an interactive webinar with agents of social change representing a cross-section of First Nations social enterprises and businesses. It explored the principle: "If you can get right what you do in relation to First Nations people, your work with all people and communities will benefit."
“The decolonising workshop by Shifting Ground is something everyone should experience and benefit from.
For non-Indigenous people, it’s essential we understand our own context in this country — and how our society has been shaped by the ongoing process of colonisation. With this understanding, we can be empowered to be forces for positive change at work and in our personal lives.”
— Rory Sinclair
Communications Manager, Blast Group