Evolve Online Cultural Awareness Training LEARNING OUTCOMES

In Evolve Online, participants will increase their confidence to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the workplace, by increasing their understanding of:

1. Why cultural awareness is important and how it is relevant to you in the workplace, including what a RAP is

2. Indigenous cultural diversity in , nations and language groups including Indigeneity and Identity – commonality and differences

3. Key events in our shared history that impact on all Australians and how Aboriginal people relate to time and the ongoing impact of intergenerational trauma on Australia’s First Peoples

4. The concept of 'cultural baggage' as a form of unconscious bias, becoming aware of this bias. Exploring the uniqueness of Aboriginal English and cultural differences in communication, including body language (e.g. eye contact)

5. The complexity, ingenuity, and sense of belonging that family and kinship systems provide for and how this is relevant today in the workplace

6. Understanding the initiative and the role of privilege in creating a gap

7. Practical reconciliation and how you can make a difference in the workplace. Learn the R3 Culture® approach to intercultural communications

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING MATERIALS Introduction • Welcome by Aunty Munya • Evolve Communities website www.evolves.com.au • Why cultural awareness is important

• The concept of ‘mob’, Aunty Munya’s mob • How Evolve online is structured MODULE 1 • What is a RAP? • www.reconciliation.org.au/recon • What does a RAP do and contain? Reconciliation ciliation-action-plans and your RAP • Your organisations RAP • YouTube video, Reconciliation Action Plans, Reconciliation Australia 2017 MODULE 2 • Indigenous cultural diversity in Australia, • , Welcome to nations and language groups Country, Explore Australia 2018 Diversity, Identity and Stereotypes • Recognise the Indigenous Map of • YouTube video, Australian Australia Indigenous People, Conor McCarthy 2016. • Knowing the difference between the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags • YouTube video, I’m Aboriginal But I’m Not…, Buzzfeed, 2015. • Indigeneity and Identity – commonality and differences • Evolve Articles (www.evolves.com.au/blog): • Debunking stereotypes o The $50 Man • Understanding how to refer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander o Aboriginal Diversity - Why Peoples One Size Does Not Fit All • Understanding the difference between colonial and Indigenous terms for ‘Australia’ and her • Learn an Aboriginal name for Australia MODULE 3 • Aboriginal culture as the oldest, • Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of continuing culture in the world the Frontier, UNSW Press 1981 Our Shared History and the • White Australia has a black history – • Anna Haebich, For Their Own what does that mean? Good, University of Press, 1992 • Historic themes of Belonging, Resistance, Stolen , Resilience and • Doris Pilkington Garimara, Follow Reconciliation the Rabbit-Proof Fence, University of 1996 • Exploring key events that impact on all Australians by 'unfolding time' back to • Movie: Rabbit Proof Fence, 2002 the Dreamtime, how Aboriginal people • Judy Atkinson, Trauma Trails, relate to time Spinifex Press 2002 • The ongoing impact of • , SBS TV series, 2008 intergenerational trauma on Australia’s First Peoples • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have inhabited Australia since millennia, and their cultures, laws, ceremonies and connection to the land is strong and enduring.

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING MATERIALS MODULE 4 • The concept of 'cultural baggage' as a • Diana Eades, Aboriginal Ways of form of unconscious bias, becoming Using English, Aboriginal Studies Communication aware of your unconscious bias Press 2010 and cultural baggage • Understanding uniqueness of Aboriginal • YouTube video, Aboriginal English and Yumpla Tok English, ABC Indigenous, 2016 • Cultural differences in communication • Evolve Articles including body language (e.g. eye (www.evolves.com.au/blog): contact) o Respectful Terminology o Respecting Indigenous Cultural Protocols • YouTube Video Bigthap Kriol Yumpla Tok, First Languages Australia 2018 MODULE 5 • The difference in Aboriginal people’s • YouTube video, Family and concept of family from mainstream Kinship, Reconciliation Australia Kinship and Australia and the high priority placed on 2013 Sorry Business family, community and cultural • Evolve Articles obligations (www.evolves.com.au/blog): • That ‘Family comes first’ is an extremely o Who's your Daddy? important principle for many Aboriginal o The Mother-in-Law Tree and Torres Strait Islander people o What's with Wrong Skin? • What is Sorry Business and how it relates o 'Sorry Business' Time - What to kinship My Sister's Death Has Taught Me by Munya Andrews • The complexity, ingenuity, and sense of belonging that kinship family systems provide for and how this is relevant today in the workplace MODULE 6 • Understanding the Closing the Gap • Prime Minister’s most recent initiative annual report to Parliament on Closing the Gap ‘Closing the Gap’ - Privilege • Understanding what privilege is and isn’t • Peggy McIntosh, Unpacking the • The Privilege Walk – a powerful visual Invisible Knapsack, Peace and exercise to demonstrate that a gap Freedom Magazine, July/August does exist in Australian society and why 1989. we need to close it • YouTube video, What is Privilege?, Vanier College Television 2015 • Evolve Article (www.evolves.com.au/blog): o Do I Have a Responsibility to Understand My Privilege?

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING MATERIALS MODULE 7 • Practical reconciliation and how you • Anne Bishop, Becoming an Ally, A can make a difference in the workplace & U Academic, 2002. Becoming an Ally • How to become an Ally for Indigenous • YouTube video, 5 Tips for peoples and the practical actions you Becoming an Ally, Chescaleigh, can take 2014 • The R3 Culture® approach to • Evolve Articles intercultural communications (when (www.evolves.com.au/blog): and how to use it – Reflect, Relate, o Becoming an Ally to Reconcile) Aboriginal and Torres Strait • Invitation for you to think about Islander Peoples practical things you can do to become o 7 Ways to Improve Your an Ally Leadership by Drawing from Aboriginal Wisdom o You can ask that with Evolve's Dear Abby

About Evolve and Your Facilitators Evolve Communities is a majority Indigenous-owned cultural training organisation with a bold vision to build culturally competent, aware workforces through programs run by respected and accredited Indigenous facilitators. The solutions Evolve offers include the R3 Culture® (Reflect, Relate, Reconcile) and the Engaging Pathways® approaches. Evolve Online is designed to capture the magic of face to face programs. Aunty Munya Andrews, your guide through this online program, is a cultural expert with lived experience of Indigenous disadvantage. A Bardi woman originally from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Aunty Munya has wide-ranging experience in Indigenous matters, community empowerment and the law. Steeped in Aboriginal cultural laws and traditions, she is a strong advocate of culturally appropriate ways of working with Aboriginal people and their communities. Renowned for her intellectual prowess and sharp mind, she is forwarded by University as a ‘leading Australian thinker’. Educated in Australia and the USA, Munya has degrees in anthropology and law. She has practiced law in and as a solicitor and barrister, including as a legal academic at the and at Southern Cross University, teaching Indigenous legal subjects. Munya is equally well-versed in traditional laws, customs and practices and has authored several books on these subjects, including her second book year about Aboriginal Spirituality - Journey into Dreamtime. Like many Aboriginal people, Munya has learned to work and live in two worlds. Her dream is to bring them closer together, and cultural awareness is an invaluable tool in the process. Carla Rogers, founder and co-Director of Evolve, is a facilitation and engagement expert whose heritage stems from the convicts, mostly from England, Scotland and Ireland. She is one of the most experienced providers of facilitation, stakeholder and community engagement services in Australia and has developed unique and award winning approaches to both engagement and facilitation. Both Munya and Carla have held senior executive positions in government, have won significant awards and have had their work cited as best practice, for example, Guidelines for Australian Indigenous Protected Area Management Plans, CSIRO. Awards include a Churchill Fellowship, International Award for Innovation in Public Participation (IAP2) and National Planning Excellence Award (Planning Institute of Australia). Evolve are constantly creating new activities, training approaches and resources, designed to develop cultural competency for all Australians; a rigorous accreditation program is designed for predominantly Indigenous trainers from across Australia. By working with Evolve, you are supporting a range of Indigenous businesses and employment.

Image References

Bardi Dancers. Image courtesy of Department of Community and Arts, Image 1 Annual Report 2016

Group of Aboriginal prisoners chained together, all of the men are wearing Image 2 pearl shell covers (). Image courtesy of Broome Historical Society, Freney Collection

Image 3 The Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay (Kurnell), William Macleod 1899

Mission children at Beagle Bay in 1929. Image courtesy of Broome Historical Image 4 Society, McDonough Collection

Aboriginal school children at , Fred Kruger 1878. Image courtesy Image 5 of State Library of Victoria

This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a Image 6 group. It used published resources from 1988-1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed. It is not suitable for native title or other land claims. David R Horton (creator), © AIATSIS, 1996.

Image 7 NAIDOC Poster 1987. Image Courtesy of NAIDOC

Aboriginal prisoners in chains with a white man holding the end of the Image 8 chain, probably in Wyndham, ca.1930. Image courtesy of State Library of Western Australia

Group of Prisoners in Neck Chains, Wyndham, Western Australia, Lantern Image 9 slides of the Burke and Wills Expedition, MS 13867,1898. Image courtesy of State Library of Victoria

Aboriginal children gathered outside the Chapel at the Moore River Native Image 10 Settlement, Western Australia, ca. 1920. Image courtesy of State Library of Western Australia

Image 11 Map of Known Massacres of in Australia. Courtesy of Google Maps

Captain Hilliard with his family and Aboriginal domestic servants c. 1900s. Image 12 Jordan Collection, courtesy of WA Maritime Museum MHP 0058/31

Aborigine Creek Massacre. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Image 13 Commons

Citizens c.1964, Western Australian Department of Native Welfare. Image Image 14 courtesy of AIATSIS

Teaching Aboriginals to vote, 1962. Image courtesy of National Archives of Image 15 Australia

Right wrongs write yes for Aborigines! On May 27, 1967. Image courtesy of Image 16 State Library of

Launch of International Year of the World's Indigenous People 1992. Image Image 17 courtesy of City Archives

Image 18 Report, 1997. Australian Human Rights Commission

Image 19 First Australians, , 2008. SBS

Aboriginal Ways of Using English, Diana Eades, 2013. Courtesy of Australian Image 20 Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Two unidentified children standing in front of a gate at Beagle Bay. Image Image 21 courtesy of Broome Historical Society Collection

Group portraits of Pastor Frank Johnson and teachers or missionaries with Aboriginal children in uniform outside a bougainvillea-covered building, Image 22 United Aborigines at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, 1968. Image courtesy of State Library of Western Australia.

Group of children at Beagle Bay. Image courtesy of McDonough Image 23 Collection, Broome Historical Society

Becoming an Ally; Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in People, Anne Image 24 Bishop, 3rd Edition, 2015. Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd