Cultural Apprecaition eLearning
Foster Respect, Reconciliation, and Cultural Safety
Embark on a transformative cultural journey that enriches both your personal and professional life, while uplifting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
Guided by qualified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander facilitators, you'll gain unique insights through engaging, video-based modules. Your cultural competence will grow through interactive activities and thought-provoking reflection opportunities designed to challenge perspectives and deepen understanding.
The complete course can be completed within 3hours and is designed to:
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enhance cultural competence and lays the groundwork for creating inclusive and respectful workplace
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enhances appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
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improve your ability to facilitate respectful, inclusive discussions about culture and identity
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empowers you to take actionable steps toward fostering cultural safety
Why Participate
This comprehensive course explores the rich history, vibrant cultures, and ongoing efforts toward reconciliation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Designed for individuals and organisations, it provides foundational knowledge, practical frameworks, and actionable strategies to create culturally safe and respectful environments.
Who Is This For?
Anyone committed to fostering inclusive workplaces, strengthening community relationships, and supporting Indigenous initatives.
What will you learn?
Module 1 - Truth Telling
Welcome to the Truth Telling module—a deep and moving exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture, and lived experience.
This modules invites learners on a journey that honours the complexity, strength, and resilience of First Nations peoples, while also confronting the painful truths of Australia’s past.
From the richness of Dreaming stories and cultural systems, to the devastating impacts of colonisation, forced removals, and assimilation policies, this module will help you develop a greater appreciation for the truth of our shared history—and its ongoing impact today.
Topics:
Truth telling
What is culture
Impacts of colonisation
Assimilation
Questionable intentions
Intergenerational trauma
Duration - 28:45
Module 2 - Torres Strait Islander Culture
Come on a journey to learn about the spiritual connection to Tagai, the significance of traditional and contemporary practices, and the social structures that sustain Torres Strait Islander communities.
Gain a greater understanding of cultural protocols, kinship, LORE, and the importance of ceremonies such as Sorry Business and the Coming of the Light.
This module invites you to listen, learn, and reflect—not to generalise, but to build meaningful understanding and relationships with Torres Strait Islander peoples as unique individuals and custodians of an enduring culture.
Topics:
Who we are
History
Kinship
Sorry business
Maintaining culture
Duration - 7:12
Module 3 - Big Power Movements
This module explores the powerful history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resistance, activism, and the pursuit of justice from the 1950s through to today. It uncovers the key turning points that shaped Australia's reconciliation journey—led by courageous individuals and communities who used both tradition and mainstream tools to create change.
But this is not just a history lesson. It's a personal and national challenge. Through this module, we ask:
What does true reconciliation look like? What is your role in that journey? And how can you turn your awareness into action?
This is a story of resistance, resilience, and responsibility. It’s a story that is still being written—by all of us.
Topics:
Wave Hill Walk Off
Freedom Rides
1967 Referendum
Tent Embassy
Mabo Case
Reconciliation
National Apology
Duration - 27:09
Module 4 -Essential Information for the Workplace
Module 4 focuses on enhancing cultural capability and understanding when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This module can be used a a stand alone short course as well as complementing the overall package.
It introduces a structured approach to engagement that fosters respect, acknowledges cultural diversity, and encourages shared experiences. By following a four-step process, participants will learn how to effectively listen, suspend assumptions, take informed action, and wrap respect around their interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders.
Topics:
Listen
Suspend
(safety, racism, above the line thinking)
Take Action
Respect
(Acknowledgements to country, diversity, identity, flags, terminology)
Duration - 49:17
SYSTEMATIC
RACISM
This module aims to create culturally safe workplaces where everyone can thrive.
Module 5 - Possible Solutions
In this module, we take a critical look at what it means to move beyond symbolic gestures and into real, lasting structural change.
We critique the close the gap campaign, introduce the 4 priority reforms and explore voice, treaty, truth—what it means, who it’s with, what it could look like—and how self-determination and economic empowerment are essential to true reconciliation.
Topics:
Closing the Gap
(Peaks and Priority Reforms)
Voice
(2023 Referendum)
Treaty and Truth telling
Duration - 22:39
Sneak Peek- see below videos for a teaser of each of the modules
Meet the facilitators
