Strategic Cultural Awareness with Grant Sarra

Strategic Indigenous Awareness – To Understand Our Present, We Must Understand Our Past 

The program provides participants with an opportunity to walk briefly in the shoes of Aboriginal Australians. It provides a generic overview of Aboriginal culture and history and aims to develop a greater appreciation and understanding of modern-day cross-cultural problems, issues and challenges that impact upon individuals working in organisations/companies across Australia. 

At the completion of the program participants will have developed a greater appreciation and understanding of: 

1. Aboriginal history, beliefs, culture, society, law, customs, values, practices, and obligations associated with the land, people and environment. 

2. Problems, issues, challenges, and aspirations of Aboriginal Australians. 

3. The importance and value of human diversity in modern Australian workplaces and society in general. 

4. Cultural and structural barriers that inhibit effective communication, relationships, and engagement at local project levels and within a human resource management context. 

5. Culturally respectful methods that enhance effective communication, relationships within organisations and engagement at local project levels and within a human resource management context. 

6. How to maximise performance and productivity (in a domestic and global context) through effective engagement with Aboriginal people; and 

7. Negative personal and business impact and cost of racism, discrimination and prejudicial and stereotypical attitudes and behaviours in the workplace. 

About the Trainer: 

Grant is a Bunda man with a 36-year background and experience working in areas that deal exclusively with Indigenous community problems, issues, and aspirations relevant to public and private sector projects across Australia. He is a prolific trainer and speaker on Indigenous issues with proven track record for driving cultural change that builds organisational effectiveness, efficiency, and capacity to deliver culturally appropriate change. 

Catering: Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are included. Please ensure to confirm any dietary requirements when registering.   

Pricing 

*All prices exclude GST.

Member price	$450
Non-Member price	$675
Government Employee price	$900

ACTCOSS may be able to reduce or waive fees for consumer representatives, people experiencing disadvantage or small community organisations. Please contact ACTCOSS and we’ll do our best to offer support to participate.

Waitlist 

If the workshop is sold out, we encourage you to register your interest to be place on the Waitlist. We may be able to offer you a space, sometimes at short notice, or invite you to a future date for the workshop.  

TERMS AND CONDITIONS  

ACTCOSS recognise that plans can change, if you want to chat about options for cancelling or rescheduling a course, please contact us to discuss this further. ACTCOSS aims to be flexible and accommodating with training and recognises that in some cases, there are exceptional circumstances in which a charge may be inevitable.   

Once registration is completed, paid fees will be refunded as follows:  

• If the training is cancelled or postponed a full refund of the course fee will be given. 

• If the attendee cancels 7 days or more before the training date a full refund will be given  

• If the attendee cancels 6 days or less before the training date no refund will be given. The attendee may transfer to another training date if available.  

• If an attendee does not attend a training session they are booked into, and they do not advise ACTCOSS in writing beforehand, no refund will apply.  

• All cancellations and reschedules must be made in writing.