Did you know that individuals and not just nations states can become allies to each other? Here at Evolve, we’ve adopted the Allies model of Re-evaluation Counselling (RC) to encourage individuals to become allies to Australia’s Indigenous peoples as part…

This year’s NAIDOC theme is ‘Because of her, we can!’ NAIDOC Week 2018 will be held nationally from Sunday 8 July and continue through to Sunday 15 July. This year’s theme celebrates the important role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait…

Indigenous cultural protocols but most people are only familiar with that surrounding land, which in Aboriginal or Torres Strait English is simply referred to as ‘country’. Country is significant because people’s cultural identity is tied to the land i.e. to…

It is one thing to have heard of someone, another to be standing on their Country and land of birth, reading their life story. The sun bounced off the ocean, on a crisp autumn day as I stood on what…

Munya Andrews People who know me know how passionate I am about language hacks and sociolinguistics. Once a strict disciplinarian for correct spelling and pronunciation, I have now shifted my focus toward the way in which we are linguistically programmed…

While most angles of the debate have been covered, people are often curious about Evolve’s take on marriage equality through a ‘cultural’ lens. When we say cultural lens, we mean through the eyes of our Indigenous and non-Indigenous team members…

Wednesday 13th December 2017, 1:30 – 2:30 pm EST Don’t miss out on our upcoming webinar ‘Journey Into the Dreamtime – Part 2’. The first 2 webinar sessions in this eight-part series are FREE. Places are capped, so will be allocated…

Image: Munya Andrews (left) and her beautiful sister For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up…

As a proud Aboriginal women, I am often asked how I relate to my non-Aboriginal heritage, having a Scottish father. Just over a year ago I had my DNA tested through Ancestry.com and ever since have been singing their praises.…

A popular question during our cultural awareness training is ‘What is Aboriginal Dreamtime?’  This is a bit like asking ‘What is Christianity?’ or ‘What is Islam?’ Oh and ‘Please explain it to me in a sentence or two’. Aboriginal Dreamtime…