Bi-Cultural Awareness, Safety and Inclusion Workshop

~Be informed, challenged and inspired~ This unique and innovative bi-cultural program will build on and enhance service providers bi-cultural awareness to have the confidence to create a culturally safe environment to enable the Aboriginal community to access their local mainstream services. Change people's attitudes, dispell myths, misconceptions and stereo-typical views.  With 30 years of personal and professional experiences in this field, we know using loss and grief changes people’s attitude because the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief ‘exposes’ loss and grief as a human experience and it doesn’t discriminate.  AIM   To impart confidence to _BUILD RAPPORT_ with your local Aboriginal community.  Gain intellectual knowledge and develop emotional skills so you can _RESPOND CALMLY AND ASSERTIVELY_ to adversarial queries, questions and comments. Discover pratical skills to create CULTURALLY SAFE WORKPLACES. COURSE OUTLINE This workshop has three sessions: * You will learn why it’s important to _VALUE ABORIGINAL & AUSTRALIAN HISTORY_ as being the cause of inter-generational suppressed, unresolved grief and how it’s compounded, and complicated contemporary Aboriginal peoples suppressed unresolved grief! * You will learn an Aboriginal approach to using a CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AND APPROPRIATE _LOSS AND GRIEF THEORY_ and will demonstrate how it is a missing link to achieving Aboriginal *prosperity! * You will learn CULTURALLY _SENSITIVE AND APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES _for the needs of an Aboriginal individual to reduce grief fear, so an individual service provider can create a cultural safety environment!  Philosophy: Create safety for the individual and the community will follow.