Deepen Your Understanding | Strengthen Your Connections | Transform Your Perspective

About the Experience

Join us on a unique and immersive journey into the rich cultural heritage of Wiradyuri peoples. This experience is designed to foster cultural competency, enhance understanding, and build meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities. This experience will complement and enhance any cultural awareness training your organisation may have completed, through guided learning, storytelling, and hands-on engagement, participants will gain valuable insights into the traditions, history, and contemporary experiences of First Nations peoples. 

What to Expect

✔ Authentic Cultural Engagement – Connect with local Wiradyuri Traditional Owners, and cultural knowledge holders who share their wisdom, history, and lived experiences through place based learning on Wiradyuri Country.
✔ On-Country Experience – Spend time on Traditional lands, learning about the significance of Country, Indigenous sustainability practices, and the deep spiritual connection to the land.
✔ Interactive Workshops – Observe and participate in cultural activities like Cultural Ceremonies,  traditional arts practice, language, and storytelling.
✔ Truth-telling and History – Gain an understanding of the impacts of colonisation, historical injustices, and the resilience of First Nations peoples.
✔ Practical Skills for Cultural Awareness – Learn how to engage respectfully with Indigenous communities and apply Cultural Awareness in professional and personal settings.

Who Should Attend?

This experience is ideal for individuals and organisations looking to strengthen their Cultural Competency/Cultural Awareness, including:

• Legal and justice professionals

• Health, disability and community service workers

• Educators and students

• Corporate leaders and teams

• Government and NGO staff

• Anyone committed to reconciliation and meaningful engagement with First Nations communities

Why Participate?

✔ Build respectful,  informed and authentic relationships with Indigenous communities.
✔ Enhance Cultural Awareness in your workplace and daily interactions.
✔ Contribute to reconciliation efforts through education and engagement.
✔ Gain valuable knowledge that fosters inclusive and culturally safe spaces.

✔  Improve your capacity to be culturally responsive.

Details

Location: Online and around the Bathurst Region

Dates: Available upon request for individuals and group bookings. Please note that spaces are limited, and early booking is recommended to secure your preferred dates.

Duration: approx. 12-16 hours on-line and then full-day, and multi-day on Country experiences available

Investment: Pricing available upon inquiry (group and corporate packages offered)

Commitment to Yindyamarra 

In the Spirit of Dhuluny [truth, rectitude, that which is direct, straight, acting, living, or gospel]: Dhulu Yala [speak truly straight talk, truthfully], Gari Yala [speak the truth]. The Elders, on behalf of the wider Wiradyuri Communities, have set expectations for participants: Yindyamaldhuray Yalbilinya Mawang [respectful learning together], having five cultural principles based on Wiradyuri Buyaa [Lore]:

Respect

Be Polite 

Be Gentle

Do Slowly

Honour

Join us in fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of First Nations cultures -because learning is the first step towards meaningful change.