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National Reconciliation Week MAY 2020 | Let’s keep the conversation going!

May 29, 2020No Commentsaboriginal, aboriginal australia, aboriginal wisdom, Corona Virus, Cultural Awareness Training, indigenous, indigenous wisdom, national reconciliation week, online cultural training awareness, online training, pandemic, virtual cultural awareness workshop, virtual workshop

National Reconciliation Week is here – and it’s ‘go’ time! If there ever was a time to get serious about strengthening relationships between non-Indigenous Australians and First Peoples, this. Is. It. At Evolve HQ, we’ll be honouring the occasion all...

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How can Indigenous wisdom help us cope with COVID-19?

April 8, 20204 aboriginal, aboriginal australia, aboriginal wisdom, Corona Virus, Cultural Awareness Training, indigenous, indigenous wisdom, online cultural training awareness, online training, pandemic, virtual cultural awareness workshop, virtual workshop

In a challenging time, we turn to one of the world’s oldest surviving cultures for guidance. It’s now been almost a month since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. You don’t need us to tell you that in that time, the...

The things we all need to do for a great online meeting

March 25, 20201 Cancelling events for corona virus, Cancelling events for coronavirus, Corona Virus, Cultural Awareness Training, online cultural training awareness, online training, pandemic, virtual cultural awareness workshop, virtual workshop

At Evolve we passionately believe that all of the engagement and facilitation principles that you apply in a face-to-face setting are applicable to any engagement and relationship building at a distance. With this in mind, in 2008 we partnered with...

It is National Close the Gap Day today – who cares and so what?

March 19, 20201 Cancelling events for corona virus, Cancelling events for coronavirus, Corona Virus, Cultural Awareness Training, online cultural training awareness, online training, pandemic, virtual cultural awareness workshop, virtual workshop

As with most things, the COVID-19 pandemic has well and truly stolen the spotlight off Close the Gap (CTG) and the Closing The Gap day. Did you know that the annual CTG report has been released? Did you know that...

Coronavirus is no excuse to stop training

March 12, 20201 Cancelling events for corona virus, Cancelling events for coronavirus, Corona Virus, Cultural Awareness Training, online cultural training awareness, online training, pandemic, virtual cultural awareness workshop, virtual workshop

Nungamanladi (Hello in Bardi) , It is not only coronavirus going viral, with supermarket shelves stripped bare, it feels that crazy or at least unexamined thinking has exploded as well! With a pandemic being declared this morning, we think now more...

National Reconciliation Week: In This Together

February 26, 2020No Comments

National Reconciliation Week In This Together. These three words are powerful in their simplicity – and, as this year’s theme for Reconciliation Australia’s National Reconciliation Week, likely to provide food for thought for many Australians. As a team of Indigenous...

Arguing the Absurd: Questioning Bruce Pascoe’s Indigeneity in 2020

January 23, 20201

When you’re secure in your own sense of self, says Evolve co-Director Munya Andrews, you don’t need to bring down other people. And we know it’s not up to Gudia (white people) to question an Aboriginal person’s identity. But what...

How the Legal System is Often Culturally Insensitive

October 31, 2019No Comments

This is an edited extract from an interview of Munya by the Sydney Criminal Lawyers The full articles is at Practising Whitefella Law: An Interview With Bardi Barrister Munya Andrews People love Munya’s engaging facilitation and presentation style. “Aunty Munya...

All in the Family

September 30, 2019No Comments

The Aboriginal kinship system is one of the most complicated in the world. One of our favourite cultural awareness activities at Evolve is to play the ‘Skin Game’ where we place people into Skin groups and get them to find...

To Climb or Not to Climb? That is the Question.

August 28, 20192

The question of whether it is okay to climb Uluru (Ayers Rock) or not has resurfaced once again with ‘Aunty Pauline’ pushing the boundaries of ‘political correctness’ with anything to do with Aboriginal people as always. It’s nothing new and...

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