Cultural Competency Workshop


As part of the University of Newcastle’s ongoing strategic commitment to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education through the NeW Directions Strategic Plan 2013-2015 and The Reconciliation Action Plan 2011 – 2015 (RAP), The Wollotuka Institute is offering Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competency Workshops.

This program aims to expand knowledge and understanding about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures to develop skills, values and critical reflection that enables positive changes in professional practice and capacity building, for staff and students, in working effectively within inter-cultural contexts.

The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Cultural Competency Workshop comprises three stages:

  1. Pre-Workshop – (Interactive Ochre) An online interactive multi-media resource that provides scenario-based examples with both broad and localised material aimed towards grounding in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness and sensitivity.

    Note: This component is a compulsory pre-requisite to enrol in Stage 2, and participants will be required to demonstrate learning outcomes through completing a worksheet and providing a hardcopy completion statement.  After registration you will be required to login to Blackboard to complete the worksheets and access Interactive Ochre

  2. Workshop –This will be a face-to-face session that will expose participants to ways of applying cultural competence in their professional practice encompassing inclusivity within their workplace. Participants will be given the opportunity and scope to develop their own Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Collaborative Action Plans.

  3. Post-Workshop – Participants will need to go online to submit and evaluate their Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Collaborative Action Plans, share their successes and engage in further critical reflection.

Workshop Dates 2013

 Callaghan   

Ourimbah

 Port Macquarie     

21 Feb

15 May

12 July

7 March

16 Oct

 

22 March

 

 

18 April

 

 

2 May

 

31 May

 

 

14 June

 

 

27 June

 

 

25 July

 

 

8 August

 

 

23 August

 

 

5 Sept

 

 

20 Sept

 

 

31 Oct

 

 

8 Nov

 

 

21 Nov

 

Registration

Register for the workshop at HROnline

 

Contact us

For further information about the workshop, please contact:

Estelle Johnstone
Tel: 4921 7819
Email: Aboriginal-TorresStraitIslander-workshop@newcastle.edu.au