DAY 2 | WORKSHOP 1 Choose one session Theme: Our … the eyes of my mother ‘Stolen Generation’,...

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DAY 2 | WORKSHOP 1 – Choose one session Theme: Our Culture, Identity and Place

Title Culture Community Education Technology Governance Entrepreneurship Industry. Description

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women are navigating and mobilising significant social and economic change with cultural nuances and agility. In this panel 5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women will share their insights from their own leadership journeys to date examining the challenges, barriers and opportunities for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people from urban, regional and remote perspectives and the teachings they can bring to non-Indigenous people and institutions with the intersectionality of Indigenous culture(s), education and business.

Presenters 1. Lucy Brereton 2. Leanne Howard 3. Kylie Tarleton 4. Yanti Ropeyarn 5. Ashely Finegan 6. Rebeca Harcourt

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

1. Worimi 2. Biripi & Worimi 3. Wiradjuri 4. Angamuthi, Yadhaykana, Woppaburra. 5.Murrawarri 6. Panel Host

Company/Business UNSW Alumni Panel

Title Gynaecological cancers: a handbook for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners

Description

Cancer incidence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is increasing. Cancer Australia has developed a new handbook to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners to provide information and support to women in their community about gynaecological cancers. The handbook includes information about the new Cervical Screening Test, cancer symptoms and treatment. It will also be a valuable resource for health workers and clinicians involved in the care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women undergoing treatment for gynaecological cancers.

Presenters Dr Vivienne Milch, Cancer Australia (non-Indigenous). and Kristine Falzon


Koori

Company/Business Cancer Australia


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Title Alice’s Daughter — Healing Through Art: How survival and healing are possible

through art and connecting with our land’s ancient Aboriginal spirit. Description Aunty Rhonda speaks out against injustices against her people and Mother Earth.

As an Elder, Rhonda conducts cultural and art workshops at high schools, and has worked in prisons with young women around suicide prevention, helping them reconnect with their Aboriginality. As a representative of the Stolen Generations, Rhonda officiates at National Sorry Day events in Brisbane and Ipswich. Chat with Aunty Rhonda about her storytelling, poetry, dancing, singing and her autobiography ‘Alice’s Daughter: Lost mission child’.

Presenters Rhonda Collard-Spratt (Aboriginal) & Jacki Ferro (non-Aboriginal)


Rhonda is an Elder of the Noongar & Yamatji Nations, Nhanda-Yamatji language group (although she also speaks some Ingarra, Watjarri, and Yindjibarndi learned from her mission brothers and sisters at Carnarvon Native Mission), from the Gascoyne region of WA

Company/Business Raw Memoirs

Title The Birthing on Country (BoC) Description

Understand the health impacts of pregnancy and birth on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies including poor birth outcomes, increased risks/complications, and setbacks for mother and baby in the first weeks of life due to limited access to cultural supports and isolation from Culture and Country. Be introduced to the work of the Australian College of Midwives in BoC models across Australia, as we work to incorporate culturally safe models of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Identify what BoC means to you and find strategies to engage this practice within maternity services in your communities.

Presenters Cherisse Buzzacott Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Arrernte woman, working on Ngunnawal

Company/Business Australian College of Midwives

Title Yinaar Wii Description

You’ll use Yinarr Wii, a Cultural strength based tool to gain empowerment through self-evaluation, identity and connection to country and family. Traditionally we communicate orally and by art. This practice is used in a sharing circle which is a way of our people passing on and sharing knowledges providing an opportunity for healing through women sharing stories of strength, and encountering connectedness and resilience within themselves as women. Derived from our women, elders and cultural experts, you’ll use culture within a safe space that promotes healing. Yinarr Wii supports Closing the Gap in the social emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal people.

Presenters Rosie Armstrong Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Goomeroi


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Title Confidence Matters Description

Explore creating confident cultures to achieve high performance in organisations, schools or teams. The workshop explores an organisation’s and employee's ability to gain confidence to “have the conversations we need to have" you’ll learn about the approaches we use to give voice to people who feel they have never had a voice. At the end of the workshop you’ll be able to: • Explain the importance of confidence • Identify the ingredients of confidence • understand the extent of confidence you may have • understand some of the steps you can take to build confidence in yourself and

others Presenters Tanyah Nasir, Dr Tina

Lambert Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Garrawa, Djugan and Tiwi

Company/Business Tanyah Nasir Consulting Services

Title Suicide Prevention and the Conversations We Need to Have Description

Suicide will be highlighted as a major issue amongst Aboriginal Torres Straight Islander peoples, demonstrated via researched data. The uncomfortableness and shame around this topic will be addressed. There will be discussion around the historical, cultural and social determinants of mental health and the importance of considering these in any potential solution. I will discuss my lived experience of my mother committing suicide when I was a child, and the resulting intergenerational impact. My mother is my role model and because of her we can truly drive positive change.

Presenters Leanne Howard Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Language: Gathang Descendent: Biripi & Worimi Peoples

Company/Business University of NSW

Title The Dampier Peninsula Family Empowerment Partnership Description

The Partnership implements a model for Family Empowerment to improve outcomes for children’s learning, safety, health and wellbeing, so they can grow up “strong, proud, smart, healthy and connected in their family, community and culture”. The workshop shares:

• Learnings and strategies that bring difference and diversity into an authentic collaborative space, including applying a collective impact approach within a place-based initiative.

• Steps taken to strengthen Aboriginal leadership and governance to build capability and capacity of community partners.

• Experimental processes and lessons learnt, including the ingredients and principles by which people have been encouraged and supported to work collectively and differently.

Presenters Divina D’Anna – Aarnja Ltd Kristen Orazi – Dept of Communities – Remote Services Reform Unit Robyn Stacey – Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet Jessica Bunning – Save the Children


Nyil Nyil & Yawuru

Company/Business Aarnja Ltd


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Title Elimination of Trachoma by 2020 “Clean Faces, Strong Eyes” Description Australia has committed to the elimination of trachoma, a preventable, blinding eye

infection by 2020. In order to achieve this aim there needs to be ongoing awareness of the importance of clean faces and good hygiene to prevent the spread of and reinfection from trachoma. Trachoma is still found in some remote Aboriginal communities in the tri-state border region of NT, SA and WA. Through the eyes of my mother ‘Stolen Generation’, my sister’s and my son’s generations I will tell the trachoma story, its implications on other health issues and how we can work towards elimination together.

Presenters Angee Ross Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Arrernte/Kaditja

Company/Business Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.

Title Healthy Tukka/Happy and Healthy Gut Description

Gut microbiomes play a vital role in our bodies. Imbalances in gut health are connected with numerous health conditions, many of which are experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is an emerging and exciting target for therapy and research. Learn: • about the connection between gut health, the brain and overall health and well-

being. • how diet and lifestyle affect gut microbiome • Practical and simple lifestyle and nutrition tips for optimising gut health. • Recipe renovations to nurture and support happy, thriving bellies will be

brainstormed and shared, providing participants inspiration to try new dishes. Presenters Tracy Hardy Aboriginal or Torres

Strait Islander Group Kamilaroi

Title Child Bereavement: “The Loss of a Child” Description

Julie Turner is not a doctor, psychologist, grief counsellor nor social worker. She is simply a mother who has unfortunately lost her three children and is here today to share her story with other Nannas, Aunties and Sisters and to give them love, strength, healing and hope that there is indeed, light at the end of the tunnel. The session aims to: • increase your awareness of the issues of child bereavement • help you feel more confident about supporting parents who are bereaved by the

loss of a child • tell you about where you can go to get additional help

Presenters Julie Turner Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Wakka Wakka

Company/Business Motivational Minds


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Title Dead or Deadly – Why it Works Description

Dead or Deadly is a health and wellbeing program that works! It has been developed over many years to address the social and emotional, skills, knowledge and inner self. It’s not just about health and exercise, it’s listening to the voices of the women. The program is tailored to the women who come to us, when they are ready and at their time. We want to what is our model of care and why it works. They leave our share program strong, healthy and awesome!!

Presenters Hayley Longbottom, Angie Lonesborough, Cleone Wellington, Melanie Williams, Kristika Kumar.


Jerrinja, Jerrinja, SouthCoast, Wodi Wodi, South Coast

Company/Business Waminda South Coast Women’s Health & Welfare Aboriginal Corporation

DAY 2 | SPONSOR WORKSHOP

Title Empowered Women – Shaping Cultural Tourism at AccorHotels Description

Three leading women at AccorHotels will share their stories of empowerment through employment in the Tourism industry. Kristy Stanton - General Manager, Kedea Atherton – Indigenous Programs Executive and Katayla Williams, Hotel Management Trainee will take part in a panel discussion to showcase the benefits of working in Tourism for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Presenters Kristy Stanton, Kedea Atherton, Katayla Williams hosted by Bianca Hunt


Company/Business Accor Hotels


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DAY 2 | WORKSHOP 2 – Choose one session Theme: Rights, Responsibilities and Reality

Title Reconciliation: Elders in Conversation Description

"Feminine consciousness is the transformative energy that can contain the energies of matter and, through the fires of love, connect them to the energies of soul."

Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick When Aunty Ali and Joan first met in December 2004 it was if they had known each other all their lives. Kindred spirits, now aged 78 and 85 respectively their friendship has continued to blossom Part conversation part workshop- this session will weave spiritual and cultural practices though their stories and through conversation with and drawing on the wonderful women in the room.

Presenters Aunty Ali Golding & Joan Harcourt


Biripi

Title Right Ways, Wrong Ways, Better Ways Description

Our workshop will showcase the STEM, Cultural Understanding & Aboriginal Communities’ Portal which has been collaboratively developed by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff of the University of South Australia. This resource gives students access to a vast variety of resources, including discipline specific literature and testimonials by Aboriginal community members, staff and students which underline the importance of showing respect and engaging in meaningful community consultation. The highlight of the resource are the “Blue Wren vignettes” which humorously convey strong messages about cultural right ways, wrong ways and better ways.

Presenters Kylie Ellis, Deanne Hanchant-Nichols, Jayne Boase, Petra Nisi, Elizabeth Smith and Andrea Duff.


Kylie Ellis Kokatha/Wiringu Deanne Hanchant-Nichols Tanganekald/Barkindji

Company/Business University of South Australia

Title First Engineers Building The Future Description

Indigenous Australians are the original engineers. Let's use engineering principles to build the future. What can we can do to encourage and support our people to participate and excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics?

Presenters Tamina Pitt Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Wuthathi and Meriam


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Title Our programs that work Description

• Network Indigenous Education Workers (NIEW): We celebrate success, share challenges and upskill staff to enable them to speak up to power, build knowledge, resilience and confidence in their roles.

• JumpIt! Post-School Pathways Program: A supported pathway into further tertiary education, training and/or employment. "Jump It" is working with students from years 7-12.

• Pedagogy of Difference JCU and TCEO academic research partnership: Collaboarting with parents and students on what ‘Good Teaching’ is to transform teaching practice within schools.

• Aboriginal spiritualities and meditative practices: knowledge and awareness of culturally appropriate traditional spiritualities and practices and deep listening as part of meditative practices.

Presenters Janelle Knack, Tammi Webber and Carmen Franks-Weier


Gunggari, Kokoberra & Wakka Wakka

Company/Business Townsville Catholic Education Office (TCEO)

Title Women leading the adaptation to climate change Description

Awareness of the climate change issues occurring across Australia and the effects on homelands. Empowering women with identifying and implementing practical strategies to assist with climate change when back on country.

Presenters Toni Hay Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Kamilaroi

Company/Business Indigenous Environmental Specialists

Title Because of US (SNAICC), WE CAN: Empowerment is created when the strengths that women bring are shared, recognised and utilized.

Description

Join us in coming together, networking and building capacity through understanding. We are strong advocates for organisations undergoing cultural training to support workers and families, passionate about children and families and are committed to children in care being connected to culture. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women need to have a leading voice. We’ll share and learn from each other and form powerful networks to support each other. We walk in both worlds and for us to continue to drive change in all areas we have to further our education so our voice and capacity to drive change is truly heard and acknowledged.

Presenters Jenine Godwin-Thompson, Judith McKay-Tempest, Maylene Burns-Slater, Tanya Wells


Yaggerah, Wiradjuri, Gugu Djungan and Gangalidda, Wiradjuri, Palawa & Pakana Lutriwita

Company/Business SNAICC National Voice For Our Children


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Title Accessible Playgroup and Empowering Indigenous Women through Playgroup Description

An interactive presentation, giving an outline of the Accessible Playgroup Initiative. The presentation will show how Playgroup Queensland supports Indigenous communities and local services to come together through playgroup. The program also has the chance to empower local Indigenous women with confidence and reaching out to other services and build on their skill as a mother and help provide a safe, nurturing environment to engage with their child/ren in a soft entry of education. This playgroup program supports the development of the next generation of community leaders.

Presenters Annie Clarke Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Wiradjuri NSW

Company/Business Playgroup Queensland

Title National Disability Insurance Scheme: What is the NDIS and how to get access the scheme

Description

The disability requirements and early intervention requirements including Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI). What is a NDIS plan and how you can start to think of writing goals and funded supports. We will look at how NDIS funds in budgets and how you can manage those funds. This can be a flexible workshop so whatever is needed by the attendees can be provided.

Presenters Peta Turner Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Awabakal

Company/Business National Disability Insurance Scheme

Title NDIS: New World Description

This workshop will discuss:

• Disability sector & NDIS • Wesbro Serviced Creation and Cultural Identity • Services offered description:

o Girra Girra Bang (Social) o Ganya (Accommodation) o Birrang (Skills training & workforce) o Wambinya (NDIS Consulting)

Strength from support; by our families, communities, networks and services. Presenters Hayley Wesbro &

Macey Wesbro Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Wiradjiri

Company/Business Wesbro Services


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Title Tidda-Links’: Connecting local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s voices

to family and sexual violence service planning. Description

My Grandmother, Mother, Aunties, Sisters and Cousins fought hard against the ongoing injustices against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Now, as a Principle Female Aboriginal Health Worker, I’ll workshop with you how Health services can be shaped to better attend to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survivors of family and sexual violence. For three generations, women in my family have been survivors of this ongoing ‘cycle of violence’. We have stayed strong amidst the domestic/family and other types of violence and the sexual assault, we keep fighting. Hopefully the next generation can also say ‘Because of her, we can!’

Presenters Toni Lorell Smith Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Yuin. (Gadigal born)

Company/Business Domestic Violence & Women’s Health, Community Health, Sydney Local Health District

Title Crown Resorts/Indigenous Programs Description

Be a part of a presentation on employment and retention. We will both be sharing our personal stories and journey, including who our role models are.

Presenters Sharon Ninyette and Jacinta Cubillo


Noongar/Wadjigan

Company/Business Crown Resorts

Title Enhancing women’s health in remote communities by removing specific barriers and providing culturally-appropriate options

Description

Research indicates that females in some communities have challenges during menstruation with access to sanitary products (such as pads), facilities for waste disposal and washing, and insufficient information about bodily changes. NATSIWA, UQ and Women on Country are working to identify the barriers and needs, in order to provide suitable options. This workshop will discuss with Indigenous women barriers and solutions for girls and women regarding menstrual hygiene. We recognise that this is a delicate, personal women’s business topic that can be difficult to discuss. We hope to build long-term options to ensure women’s dignity every day of the month.

Presenters Wendy Anders (NATSIWA) and Dr Nina Hall (University of Queensland)


Arrente (Wendy Anders)

Company/Business National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance (NATISWA) and the University of Queensland (UQ)


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Title The power of song to keep us strong; the essential role of song culture to our health

and well-being Description

Song is central to the maintenance of language, ceremony and culture, it holds our traditional knowledge and it teaches us who we are and where we fit in our world. We’ll explain the important role of song in the health and well-being of our community and how we are working to keep their song culture alive. We’ll talk about our performing and recording projects and how we make new versions of very old songs and how that is empowering ourselves and our daughters and granddaughters with a sense of pride and identity. We’ll share the stories of some songs and of course we’ll sing for you!

Presenters The Tiwi Strong Women’s Group and Genevieve Campbell


Tiwi

Company/Business Ngarukuruwala

DAY 2 | SPONSOR WORKSHOP Title Veolia: The importance of respecting and engaging Description

Veolia believes in the importance of respecting and engaging Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples & communities. 1. Veolia will take workshop participants on a journey through Veolia’s engagement with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples & communities such as our employment program focusing on apprenticeships, cadetships & work experience, and partnering with community organisations to make the program a success. 2. How can big businesses be more effective in engaging with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples, communities and businesses to deliver sustainable economic and environmental outcomes? Including discussions on:

• Challenging unconscious bias • What businesses should not do • How would you like to see business engage

Presenters Kate Dryden Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Group

Company/Business Veolia


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DAY 2 | LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION

Title Koori Fashion Parade Description

This years NAIDOC theme ‘Because of her, We can’ will bring young children and women closely together with our women Elders in our community to celebrate who we are with pride and dignity. Our vision is to organise a project to make our own costumes with our Elders and showcase these in a fashion parade through traditional dance style. Let’s empower our children to grow up with a respectful strong cultural identity by learning from our Elders. We would be honoured and privileged to present our item and I hope you give our application some consideration for this wonderful event.

Presenters Calita Murray + Elders, women and children from La Perouse and surrounding community.


Women representing Bidjigal, Dharug, Eora, Yuin, Biripi, Gumbainggir and Wiradjuri and living on Bidjigal land.

Company/Business Warada Dancers in partnership with Eastern Suburbs Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (ESLAECG) and Randwick City Council.

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