Cultural Safety Training

 

Cultural safety is different from Cultural awareness and from Cultural sensitivity and all are important. 

• Cultural awareness is understanding that differences exist

• Cultural sensitivity is accepting the legitimacy of difference life experiences and reflecting on the impact you as a service provider has on an individual’s life

• Cultural safety is defined by recipients of care or services

This Cultural safety training has been developed and delivered to health professionals by Diana Murphy, Registered Nurse, Midwife and formerly Registered Psychiatric Nurse. With over 54 years of experience of working in health care settings in rural, remote and metropolitan areas including being the Director of Nursing of a small country hospital in the mid north of SA, Diana also holds a Graduate Diploma in Community Cultural Development. Diana is a Dr Margaret Tobin award recipient and finalist and Country Services Excellence award winner.

This training extends beyond traditional diversity training and places participants in the shoes of health care workers and the family of someone trying to seek the care they need. It is an impactful experience for participants that is designed to enhance empathy by focusing on the power dynamics and systemic issues impacting all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.​

About the Moorundi Cultural Safety Training

This training covers:

• Understanding Cultural Safety: Recognise its role in improving service accessibility and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

• Historical and Ongoing Impacts: Learn about the effects of colonisation and colonial policies on Culture and Communities.

• Trauma-Informed Practice: Incorporate principles that acknowledge and address the impact of trauma.

• Respectful Terminology and Diverse Identities: Use appropriate language and understand the diversity among Communities.

• Equity and Self-Determination: Understand their importance in ensuring Cultural safety and supporting rights.

• Foundational Skills for Practice: Develop practical skills to effectively implement Cultural safety measures.

• Building Respectful Relationships: Focus on fostering positive and respectful interactions with Communities.

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Delivery and cost​

 

​Unlike regular traditional training, this interactive session has participants play a role in a health care setting to help identify, challenge, and change behaviour in the workplace. Participants are given a role to play in a health care setting, including a background story and history of the person they are playing. They are asked to stay in character as much as possible and trust the process through to the end.

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An example of a workshop:​

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      A Journey of Role and Reflection

     Join us for an interactive experience designed to help you explore and reconnect with your "Inner                                 Shakespeare." You'll step into various Community roles, engage in discussions about their value, and                           collaboratively rewrite the final scene of a play to see different outcomes.

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     Discussion Groups: Break into small groups to delve deeper into the roles and values exercise, then                             rewrite the play’s last scene.

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     Play-Take Two: Take the stage to perform your new version of the script and showcase the alternative                         outcomes.

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     Debrief: Reflect on the workshop activities, share insights, and discuss personal actions to enhance our                       collective relationship with our First Peoples.

 

​Participants are inspired to find solutions to answers themselves and gives them the chance to try out new behaviours, as well as discover how these changes will benefit them and the organisation. This approach means they can take what they have learnt and put it into everyday practice.

The training can be tailored and delivered to groups from as small as four up to 20 people. It is suitable for anyone working in a health care setting or service providers, including General Practitioners, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners, Clinical Managers, Health Administration, Support Staff, Policy makers and anyone else looking to expand their understanding of how systemic racism is still impacting the daily lives of people today.

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Please email diana.murphy@macchs.org.au to discuss your training needs and to obtain a quote. 

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Testimonials 

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1. “Thank you for this experience. I found it very valuable and quite eye opening. Role playing and thinking practically about how a specific scenario could be improved was an effective way of getting me to think more deeply about the challenges faced and what needs to change to improve the well-being of Aboriginal Elders in care. Beyond this these learnings could also be applied to other common scenarios in society, (schools, offices, government services etc). Thank you! - November 2023.

2. “Thank you so much for sharing this amazing Cultural Safety Training with us. The role plays really highlighted the truth that Indigenous people face. I was extremely saddened and reminded of my own past. This training has changed me to be a warrior for Cultural awareness.” - November 2023.

3. “It was excellent to understand about how casual racism pervades our institutions – we need to do something about it!” - November 2023.

4. “Thank you so much for such a great session, really valuable and a lot of insights which I’ll definitely be taking with me. Interactive training always scares me, but this was the perfect amount, never a dull moment and I definitely felt very safe throughout it all. Would be great to make this training mandatory in all workplaces!” - November 2023.

5. “I am very pleased to feedback the importance of and benefit I received from the Cultural safety Programme I undertook at Moorundi in September 2022. The method of “taking” us through time and then working in groups to put ourselves at the historical time and place was very powerful and emotionally challenging. I felt as though I was changed by the experience, even though I had thought of myself as reasonably culturally informed and sensitive. There was a real sense of connection made between us , the participants. I would highly recommend this training”. - GP October 2022.