Culturally Intelligent Allyship: Allying Every Day
Empowering non-First Nations people with confidence and capability to be impactful allies.
Course Overview
Culturally Intelligent Allyship: Allying Every Day is a program designed for non-First Nations people who are just stepping into their allyship, looking for support to build their knowledge, confidence and capacity.
This program creates safe and supportive spaces for courageous conversations and facilitates experiential activities for participants to engage with each other. Participants develop a foundation of cultural intelligence that will support their allyship in whatever spaces they are passionate about.
Our Culturally Intelligent Allyship programs are purposefully small groups to ensure they are safe innovative spaces with high levels of experiential engagement. These programs are not cultural awareness training that starts with Captain Cook, a whole lot of statistics, and less-than-useful '“feel guilty/good moments”.
Like all First Peoples Leading programs, Culturally Intelligent Allyship will be challenging, pragmatic, relevant and innovative experiences focussed on supporting allies to have real impact now for First Nations people, which contributes to dignity-centred community for all Australians.
Program features
Online delivery: 2 x 2-hour virtual workshops with associated reading/viewing requirements.
Expert presenters: This program will be lead by highly experienced First Nations and Non-First Nations leadership professionals.
Small group learning: A safe and supportive learning environment with a maximum of 20 participants.
First Peoples Leading Team
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Ben Ballard
First Peoples Leading | Biripi
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Nicole Major
First Peoples Leading | Bundjalung
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Jason Ardler
Thirriwirri | Yuin
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David Major
Thirriwirri | Yuin-Maneroo
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Sally Ross
Executive Central
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Rachel Ardler
Thirriwirri | Yuin
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Paul Garcia
Choose Coaching
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Melissa Ellis
Thirriwirri | Yuin/Dunghutti
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Jess Herder
Thirriwirri | Dunghutti
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Trent Brickle
MobCo | Palawa
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Melissa Hamilton
Thirriwirri | Wiradjuri
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Claude McDermott
Thirriwirri l Bundjalung
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John Beattie
Thirriwirri
What You Can Expect
2 x Expert-led workshops
Online and 2 hours each
Learning material
Access unique and curated content
Collaboration
Learn and engage with other participants
Learning Outcomes
Greater awareness of the diversity of experiences of First Nations people and communities
Identify and analyse your cultural intelligence
Comprehension and practice in modelling dignity
Workshop One
From Knowing to Being
Courageous conversations
Awareness: what needs to be discussed
Understanding: the First Nations experience
The Dignity Framework
Self-paced learning assignment
Workshop Two
From Being to Doing
Dignity at the centre: as team members, allies, in the community
Small group discussions
Walking beside and walking behind: what First Nations need from allies
Personal action planning
Our Vision
“Our aspiration is not just to create great First Nations leaders, but to create great leaders, full stop! Purposeful leaders, equipped with the agility and confidence to respond adaptively and with dignity to the unprecedented complexity and pace of change currently experienced by our communities and organisations.”
First Peoples Leading Board
Upcoming Program Dates
Please contact us to request an invoice or to inquire about our group and community rates.
First Peoples Leading is a registered Not-For-Profit organisation that aims to offer supported places to First Nations community organistions to access high quality leadership development programs.
Some organisations we work with
Acknowledgement of Country
We pay our respects to Elders and community leaders, and those leaders that came before us, who for millennia have maintained the world’s oldest surviving cultures and who have made it possible for us to do what we do. We acknowledge the strength and innovation of our young people, the leaders and Elders of the future.
We acknowledge our families, who have always supported us to dream big and who continue to support us as Thirriwirri evolves.
We also pay respect to the non-First Nation people we work with who share our vision for an empowered, prosperous and culturally assured First Nations Australia.