Managing Cultural Load, Cultural Stress In The Workplace – An Indigenous Worker Retention Program 2026
Managing Cultural Load, Cultural Stress In The Workplace – An Indigenous Worker Retention Program 2026
Original price was: $3,000.00.$2,800.00Current price is: $2,800.00. inc. GST
Dr Tracy Westerman’s ‘MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE, AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM’
A two day training event
Earlybird registrations (at least 8 weeks prior) enjoy a discounted rate.
How do I receive the discount?
Simply book and pay 8 weeks or more prior to the event date to receive the discounted price.
Groups of 5 or more receive an additional 5% discount. To receive this discount, simply click “Payment on Invoice” in the checkout and we will issue you with an invoice via email.
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MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE:
AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM
PERTH - 26th to 27th March 2026 (was originally in November 2025)
CAIRNS - 26th to 27th October 2026
COFFS HARBOUR - 10th to 11th September 2026
Workshops run from 9am to 4pm
$3,000 per person
$2,800 per person early bird
5% discount for group bookings
With words like cultural safety, cultural security, and cultural load get thrown around so much but what do they mean for Aboriginal people in the workplace. With up to 42% of Aboriginal workers experiencing racism in the workplace and racism costing Australia up to $45B each year through productivity loss, this program ensures that workers have the essential skills to understand how to navigate cultural load created by managing workplaces but also external family and community demands, and cultural obligations.
As a multi-award-winning psychologist who has accumulated over 25 years of work and practice with Aboriginal people and communities – Dr Westerman’s approach is about strategies that work. It is about ensuring that participants walk away with increased insight into the stressors in their workplaces but also how to address these issues at an individual and organisational level.
As a psychologist, Dr Westerman understands the complex and challenging process of behavioural change. As an Aboriginal person, she understands the layers to cultural stress that exist and which contribute to burnout, that keep individuals and organisations stuck in behaviours that lead to continued poor outcomes.
This training is psycho-educative: it is about behavioural change.
You will:
- Complete the Cultural Needs Scale (CNS) that provides an individual plan to manage workforce cultural stress and load
- Understand the issues that contribute to cultural load and cultural stress and develop insight into when I am moving into the ‘danger zone’ of stress
- Strategies to manage cultural stress. Dealing with humbugging and how my individual coping mechanisms are identified as blockers to change
- Racism as trauma and how it creates an additional layer of cultural stress. The different types of racism and how to identity their impacts
- Understanding the Other Race Effect and Racial Empathy Gap and how this creates barriers to recruitment, retention and personal growth in the workplace
- Managing my mood and identifying culturally related depression; anxiety (nerves) and individual coping mechanisms are formed and can be altered
- Developing self soothing strategies related to stress. How to ensure that cultural load doesn't lead to burnout
- Managing cultural dilemmas-what happens when my work role conflicts with my cultural role
- How individual cultural identity impacts on my work role. Why is identity so challenging?
- Practical strategies on how to ensure health and wellbeing at work and home.
- Dealing with the three components of coping - thoughts; physical reactivity and behavioural responses
- How attachment comes into conflict resolution
- Conflict resolution and why certain people 'push' your buttons more than others
- How cultural mechanisms of conflict resolution and communication come into play
- Developing a comprehensive self-care plan.
- Participants will be provided with strategies to cope more effectively with these situations.
- How to increase retention of Aboriginal people in the workplace.
- Learn why current recruitment practice fail to correctly talent identify due to cultural bias
| Location & date: | PERTH – 26th to 27th March 2026, CAIRNS – 26th to 27th October 2026, COFFS HARBOUR – 10th to 11th September 2026 |
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