This program aligns to the Doing level of the Aboriginal Cultural Safety Training Content Framework. It explores key concepts such as building and supporting a culturally safe workplace, Aboriginal childhood practices, trauma-informed support, strengths-based approach, leadership and allyship, and cultural repair and learning. This training supports participants to create and sustain culturally safe workplaces through reflection, respect and continuous learning.

• Building and supporting a culturally safe workplace: Participants will learn how to embed cultural safety into everyday systems, such as induction, feedback and communication, ensuring respect and inclusion are consistently upheld.
• Aboriginal childhood practices: While not a central focus, the program acknowledges kinship systems, community-based learning and child-rearing values as vital to understanding Aboriginal culture and connection.
• Trauma-informed support: Training explores cultural grief and healing, guiding participants to adopt trauma-aware communication and de-escalation strategies within their services.
• Strengths-based approach: Participants reframe deficit-based narratives by recognising Aboriginal strength, agency and resilience, supported by tools that promote positive language and mindset shifts.
• Leadership and allyship: The program highlights that leadership in cultural safety is everyone’s responsibility, encouraging participants to model allyship and advocate for inclusion and respect in their workplaces.
• Cultural repair and learning: Emphasis is placed on humility, ongoing learning and relational accountability. Participants gain strategies for repairing relationships after harm and for maintaining culturally respectful, trust-based connections over time.

Together, these elements foster authentic, sustainable cultural safety within organisations and communities. Expected outcomes for this program are:

• enhanced cultural leadership through modelling allyship, advocacy and accountability to foster culturally safe and inclusive workplaces
• sustained culturally safe practices, embedding respect, reflection and continuous learning into workplace systems and relationships and
• strengthened community partnerships, collaborating effectively with Aboriginal people, community, and organisations to support cultural repair and long-term trust.

This training is delivered in-person over 3-4 hours, at Tauondi Aboriginal College (Port Adelaide) or at partner service locations on request.

Half-day session: $1500 per session - focus is Introductory Cultural Capability “Doing” level only. Full-day session: $2200 per session - integrated focus across “Knowing”, “Being” and “Doing” levels. There are additional on-costs for transport and accommodation to regional and remote locations if in-person delivery is the preference.