Cultural Awareness Workshops
Yarning circle workshops or your leaders or entire organisation
Designed for real conversations and lasting change
Our Yarning Circle workshops bring people together in spaces where genuine dialogue happens. Expert facilitators guide your team through practical exercises that build understanding and create pathways for meaningful action.
- No Blame, No Guilt, No Shame
- Simple Set Up
- Real Transformation
Yarning Circle Workshops Are Available In Different Formats
Take a comprehensive deep dive into the 7 Steps™ proven to build cultural competency and develop confident Allies.
Ideal Audience: Leaders & Teams responsible for Reconciliation, Community Engagement, Workplace Culture and/or Diversity & Inclusion in your organisation.
Delivery Method: In-person or Online – our highly interactive workshops are delivered by two Evolve Accredited Facilitators, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous, modelling Allyship.
Time Commitment: 7 Steps Part One – Groundwork Yarns (Half day in-person or 3 hours online), 7 Steps Part Two – Hard Yarns (Half Day in-person or 3 hours online), All 7 Steps – Part One & Two (Full Day in-person or 2 x 3 hour sessions online)), Senior Leader Intensive (2 hours in-person or online).
Engaging Webinars For Your Entire Organisation
Choose from a range of topics relevant to your workplace or demonstrate your Allyship by acknowledging significant dates.
Ideal Audience: Inspire your entire organisation (up to 2000 participants) to become Allies and create a stronger, more culturally aware and inclusive workplace.
Delivery Method: An engaging, live webinar, with time for Q&A, hosted by Evolve’s Leaders; Aunty Munya Andrews, Carla Rogers and/or Kate Kelleher.
Time Commitment: 60-minutes – perfect for your lunch & learn.
Evolve’s Co-Directors and Program Designers bring authentic cultural knowledge and decades of experience putting Allyship into action.
Aunty Munya Andrews is an Aboriginal Elder who, despite growing up socially disadvantaged, has obtained degrees in anthropology and law and is an accomplished author, educator, and sought-after speaker.
Carla Rogers is a Churchill Fellow, award-winning program designer, facilitator, and community engagement specialist. Despite being non-Indigenous, she has dedicated her 30+ year career to supporting and engaging First Nations people and communities, and practicing Allyship.
Together they have developed the tried-and-tested 7 Steps to Reconciliation and Allyship™ framework and co-authored the book, Practical Reconciliation.
Real stories
“I was keen to increase my understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Evolve program gave me practical tools and strategies like when and how to give an Acknowledgement of Country. I increased my knowledge in some unexpected areas too, including about privilege. I highly recommend working with Evolve to anyone who values reconciling what has happened in the past and positively impacting how we move forward.”
Adelaide ThompsonCampaign Unit Manager, Cancer Council NSW
“Working with Evolve has been a great partnership towards increasing our organisational cultural awareness at a national level. The tailored programs are highly interactive and experiential. I have observed our staff walking away with increased levels of confidence, understanding and inspiration and often with the positive exclamation ‘best training ever’.”
Adrian CheathamAssistant Director, Workplace Diversity Team Australian Taxation Office
“I loved connecting with local Aboriginal people at the Evolve program. Together we are now ‘Taking the Bull by the Horns’ on employment strategies for people with a disability. “
David GreelyEmployment Connections Manager WorkAbility
“I was asked about why all Aboriginal people drive Valiants. We all laughed, as I explained that Aboriginal people are as diverse as any other and that I drove an MGB sports car. My co-convenor, an older Noongar woman, was relieved that she didn’t get the question as she drove a Valiant! You can imagine the hilarity that followed”.
“As Evolve Communities have taught iAccelerate, Aboriginal Songlines are essentially knowledge networks that enable the communication of ideas to flow back and forth between two or more locations and serves as the perfect model for innovation ecosystems”
Meet Our Facilitators
Shanice Hamilton
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Scott Howlett
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Nigel Andrews
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Mel Armstrong
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Dani Fitzgerald
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Greg Sax
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Stacey Wells
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Candice Smith
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Broni Crear
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Baydon Widdicombe
Meet BaydonOur Facilitators bring real world experience and commitment to Allyship.
Our Yarning Circle workshops are delivered by an Indigenous and non-Indigenous team of facilitators who are hand picked, trained and accredited in the 7 Steps framework by Aunty Munya and Carla.
By having an Indigenous and non-Indigenous facilitator in the room, modelling Allyship, your team benefits from the authentic cultural knowledge of a First Nations person, and a real world example of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people working successfully together.
Ready to lead change?
Book a consultation with our team to explore what’s possible for your organisation.