Tauondi cultural training package (Doing)
Tauondi Aboriginal College
- Service type:
- Aboriginal Cultural Safety
- Support category:
- Educator upskilling
- Based in:
- Port Adelaide
- Delivery location:
- Eastern Adelaide
- Northern Adelaide
- Southern Adelaide
- Western Adelaide
- Adelaide Hills
- Murray and Mallee
- Barossa
- Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island
- Eyre and Western
- Yorke and Mid North
- Limestone Coast
- Delivery mode:
- In-person
- Cost:
- Moderate ($200 to $2000 per person/item/hour)
Description
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 a
How this is delivered
This training is delivered in-person over 3-4 hours, at Tauondi Aboriginal College (Port Adelaide) or at partner service locations on request.
Cost
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.
Contact the provider
Contact name: Tauondi Cultural Team
Contact email: CAT@tauondi.sa.edu.au
Contact phone: 08 8240 0300
Contact website: www.tauondi.sa.edu.au