I have attended a few Cultural Competency courses over the past 7 years which have been good. However, I have to say that I have learnt so much more from this course. It has been excellent.
While I was only moderately interested to take yet another course, once into it I was pleasantly surprised. The presentation with its part text and part video of actual real people who are part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, was brilliant. My interest to develop my own knowledge of the subject matter is now high, and I have learned much in these past hours. The fascination with the content spurned me on to finish the course within 2 days, staying up late at night to do so.
This training has enabled me to gain understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture at suitable pace and time convenient to me. I believe this training will allow me to be more confident when dealing with members of the local Aboriginal community.
I have spent a good part of my working life working with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples/organisations and services, and I found the content to be informative, challenging and thought provoking
Loved it... learned a lot. Will definitely be more mindful of culturally appropriate behaviour and historical issues when interacting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
As an Aboriginal woman, I found the course very informative and I was impressed by the information provided. I am very aware of my own culture but still managed to pick up on some areas that I have not been exposed to in my life or that did not form part of my learning in my community. What particularly impressed me was the Torres Strait Islander information, as I did not realise how much I did not know about that culture. I will certainly be encouraging the organisation that I am employed with to consider this course as the initial cultural awareness package for Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff. I enjoyed the course enormously and my thoughts are that any improvement I can make in directing the service delivery in this district can work in tandem with community expectations and my obligation as an Indigenous person.
I have completed University studies with Indigenous content that don't compare with this course, it was very informative and to hear from Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people themselves held great meaning to the content.
A fantastic basis to building cultural competency.
This course has certainly made me more culturally aware and has made me take more notice and absorb more when a discussion or anything about Indigenous people is brought up. I really did not have a desire to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their culture and beliefs - where as now I am willing to be more open-minded and not just do what I have to do because of my employment. I now have more empathy, a lot of myths were certainly cleared up for me.
Brilliant information! Very well designed course easy to get through because of the format as well as how interesting the information is.
I have not grown up with any extended family or had any experience with cultural life and found the course to be very educational and emotionally challenging. I feel much more confident now in approaching and interacting with other Aboriginal people having learned the necessary protocols to proceed.
I really enjoyed the entire course - it has certainly provided depth to my understanding of the current and past circumstances of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander situation.
This course taught me about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples perspective and issues, which I didn't really understand before. I have wanted training like this for a number of years and I am finding what I learnt as very valuable.
I have found the course very beneficial to me personally and professionally.
Interesting, engaging, challenging, enough to awaken the need to undertake more research and training.
The on-line training was really good, especially being able to access the course at home as well as work. Thank you for helping me to build my confidence to work with my Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
I didn't want to finish the reading and listening to this
I found the overall content of the training to be very interesting; at the beginning it was upsetting for me. I thought to myself that I needed to be strong at heart to go through with the training. Being Aboriginal it makes you sad, and strong at the same time. Doing the training I think made me stronger to have a little more knowledge and understanding about what happened over the years before I was born. I would recommend this course to all people; it should be introduced into schools as part of school certificate's, and at TAFE and university. The course also gave me an understanding how to deal with different situations, in the community, work related and personal life experiences.
It encouraged me to think but did not blame me.
I feel very honoured to have been able to participate and learn more about a culture that I was not overly familiar with. Becoming far more aware of Indigenous issues, beliefs and practices that I can utilise in my work place to improve and make more accessible health care for Indigenous peoples by making a conscious effort to ensure cultural safety.
I was pleasantly surprised. I have not done online cultural training before and was biased towards face-to-face learning. However, I have found that the mixed media and variety helpful and engaging. I have learnt more about issues, which I felt I already had some knowledge and really related to the individual stories and reflections especially from their different perspectives. I am keen to follow up this new understanding in my work and conversations I have with Aboriginal and Non Aboriginal colleagues and friends.
I found the use of peoples real stories in the videos excellent, this reinforced that every person is an individual and has had an individual experience.
I found this course very insightful and I learnt a few new things that being Koorie myself I wasn’t too sure on. I think this course should be in all work places to better the service delivery of all Aboriginal people. Thank you for allowing me to be apart of this course.