Workshops and Training
Our training pathway is designed to foster deep and organisation-wide transformation in your relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which will inform best practice relations with all people.
To ensure the change you seek is structural, initially, we propose an inductive five-stage approach to the delivery of this training in parallel to ongoing critical conversations with us at Shifting Ground.
Shifting Ground’s workshops and training are dedicated to developing you and your organisation’s strategic depth and capacity for systems change. We support organisations to move from awareness into transformation and action, grounded in First Nations leadership, lived experience and frameworks that embed cultural safety and relational accountability across operations.
To ensure the change you seek is structural, initially we propose an inductive five-stage approach to the delivery of this training in parallel to ongoing critical conversations with us at Shifting Ground.
Training PATHWAY
1. Decolonisation
Provides participants with an understanding of how colonisation has and continues to operate in Australian society, creating injustice and oppression. The workshop invites participants to share their stories and reflect on their place in Australian history and society to help them understand their role in decolonisation, the transformation of systems and how to create a positive future for all.
2. Racial Literacy
The racial literacy workshop supports individuals and organisations to develop linguistic competency around race by understanding the language of race (and whiteness) and learning how it structures the everyday lived realities of all people on this continent, yet remains invisible to many (particularly white, non-Indigenous) people.
3. CULTURAL SAFETY
Drawing from the decolonisation and racial literacy training, the Cultural Safety workshop begins forging internal and external work practices and cultures that value the knowledge, stories, ways of doing and experiences, or in other words, the humanity of First Peoples.
If a workplace is safe for First Peoples, then it is a safer place for all people.
4. Relational Work
How can your organisation prepare to work ethically and with integrity with First Peoples and all people? What might this ethical collaboration look like in practice?
This introduction to best practice community collaboration and ways of working with First Peoples explores what ways of working are present, or perhaps absent, in the current practice and broader workplace.
5. Synthesis & INTEGRATION
In this workshop, as the development of critical literacy and understanding continues, participants are supported to shift from reflection to action. How can you and your organisation transform to do better work on the unceded lands on which you are located?
This workshop will hold space to deeply explore how you can apply the learnings of your professional development in moving forward.
start your journey
Ready to get started? Ready to get started? Contact the team at Shifting Ground to begin your racial literacy journey. By educating yourself and building your understanding of the foundations of colonisation, you will develop that capacity to create spaces where First Nations leadership, knowledge and self-determination are truly respected.