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Cultural Competence

Our services can be tailored specifically to your context and can be provided in-person or online. By agreeing to Engaging Well as your provider, you agree to cover all required travel and accommodation costs (if required in the course of our work with you). Our cancellation policy will also be discussed with you.

Engaging 1 - The Grounding Workshop

A 3-hour interactive facilitated discussion for up to 20 participants in-person or up to 12 participants online via Zoom. This workshop is a facilitated professional conversation which explores notions of cultural competence, cultural safety and cultural intelligence, including:

  • The colonisation of Aotearoa-New Zealand and its implications for now and beyond
  • Unconscious bias including structural institutional racism
  • That it is not enough to just be “not racist” – we must be “anti-racist”
  • Dismantling racism with intelligence
  • Inequity is evidence of bias
  • The most up-to-date international discourse on racism and anti-racism
  • Exploring tokenism vs authenticity
  • The Engaging Well formula/strategy for dealing with racism

Cost: $1995 + GST per workshop

Engaging 2 - Dismantling Racism while building Cultural Capability

A 3-hour interactive facilitated discussion for up to 20 participants in-person or up to 12 participants online via Zoom. This workshop is a natural extension of Engaging 1 and covers the following areas:

  • Racism in Aotearoa-New Zealand and how we can/must eliminate it
  • Why “being nice” will not eliminate racism
  • What can/should be done to dismantle racism organisationally
  • Exploring personal experiences of racist behaviour/praxis
  • Developing personal and professional responses to racist behaviour/praxis
  • Developing skills to pronounce Māori words and names proficiently

Cost: $1995 + GST per workshop

Engaging 3 - He Ao, he Ao, he Aotearoa!

A 3-hour interactive facilitated discussion for up to 20 participants in-person or up to 12 participants online via Zoom. This workshop is a natural extension of Engaging 2 and covers the following areas:

  • What is a ‘Treaty-centric’ position?
  • Calling out, and calling in racism
  • The construction of a Treaty framework, antiracism charter
  • Kiaorafication
  • The use of tikanga in white domains, e.g., karakia, salutations etc
  • Decolonisation

Cost: $1995 + GST per workshop

Cultural Audit

A cultural audit is an organisation’s starting point in assessing its effectiveness engaging with Māori at both governance and operational levels. The cultural audit undertakes several methodologies including surveying, interviewing, document/policy reviewing, data analysing, report writing, and presenting findings and recommendations.

Our cultural audits are based around specific high-level focused questions relating to:

  • Cultural safety, capacity, and capability
  • Cultural competence and intelligence
  • Credibility and Integrity
  • Critical engagement
  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi & The Treaty of Waitangi
  • Te Reo Māori
  • Tikanga Māori

Cost: to be discussed and agreed

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