MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM

MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM
MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM
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MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM

Original price was: $2,500.00.Current price is: $2,200.00. inc. GST

Dr Tracy Westerman’s ‘MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE, AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM’

Indigenous Psychological Services (IPS) has been at the forefront of research, development and delivery of cultural competency programs since 1998.

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.

Terms and Conditions

In these terms and conditions, ‘you’ means the person attending (virtually or in-person) the workshop named in the registration or substituted in accordance with the terms and conditions, and ‘paying agency’ means the person or agency responsible for payment named in the registration.

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT
1. By submitting this registration, you and the paying agency will be regarded as having made a firm and irrevocable booking, and agree to these terms and conditions. You warrant that you have the authority of the agency to submit the registration and to bind the agency to these terms and conditions.
2. Once the registration has been submitted, a tax invoice will be issued to the paying agency, which will be responsible for payment of the workshop fees named in your registration form. These are payable within 14 days of the issue date of the invoice, and funds must be cleared at least 2 full business days before training commences.
3. In the event that training is booked in the last week prior to commencement, payment must be made by credit card.

SUBSTITUTIONS & TRANSFERS TO OTHER WORKSHOPS
4. Places are not refundable or changeable to another workshop location within 21 days of Workshop date, however, places are able to be transferred to another participant from your agency to attend in your place. You must notify the agency in writing at the earliest opportunity and at least 72 hours before the workshop begins so our administration team can process the transfer.
5. Transfer of workshop registrations to a different date or location at least 21 days out may be made only if the workshops both take place in the same calendar year. If you wish to transfer your registration to a different workshop date or location, you must notify the agency in writing at least 21 days before the workshop from which you wish to transfer begins.
6. Workshops can only be transferred ‘like to like’ – meaning that you are only able to transfer an ‘in person workshop’ to an ‘in person workshop’ or a ‘virtual workshop’ to a ‘virtual workshop’ once registration occurs. This is due to the costs associated of hosting both training formats in tandem for our clients.

CANCELLATION
7. In the event that for any reason you cancel your registration, workshop fees are not refundable. IPS acknowledges personal circumstances may prevent you from attending (including medical conditions, emergencies, transport difficulties, severe weather conditions or other events beyond the control of IPS), but you and the paying agency acknowledge the logistics of event management prevents IPS from assuming responsibility for these contingencies.
8. Whilst IPS will endeavour to ensure all workshops proceed, IPS reserves the right to cancel workshops for any reason, including insufficient registrations. If workshops are cancelled by IPS, full refunds of workshop fees only will be provided. IPS will not be liable to you or the paying agency for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred as a result of the cancellation. You or any substituted delegate are strongly advised to book fully refundable or variable airfares and accommodation for in-person workshops.

CHANGES AND POSTPONEMENT
9. IPS reserves the right to alter the workshop program, venue and timing at any time. IPS will not be liable for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by you or the paying agency in the event of it being necessary, for whatever reason, to change the location or timing of the workshop.
10. Whilst IPS will use every endeavour to hold the workshop at the venue and on the dates specified in the registration form, any refund of registration fees requested as a result of changes to the workshop program, venue or scheduled workshop dates will be at the discretion of IPS.

 

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Description

MANAGING CULTURAL LOAD, CULTURAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
AN INDIGENOUS WORKER RETENTION PROGRAM

- DARWIN - March 18th & 19th 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- PERTH - April 3rd & 4th 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- BRISBANE - May 13th & 14th, 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- TOWNSVILLE - May 15th & 16th, 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- MELBOURNE - May 28th & 29th 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- SYDNEY - June 3rd & 4th 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

- ADELAIDE - June 19th & 20th, 2025 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

$2,500 per person

$2,200 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 goes beyond awareness. It ensures that workers have the essential skills to understand how to navigate cultural load created not only by managing workplaces but also external family and community demands, and cultural obligations.

Dr Tracy Westerman AM, one of Australia’s leading psychologists unpacks the evidence on what causes cultural load and takes a unique psycho-educative approach for participants to develop vital skills to ensure safety and security in the workplace but also at home and community.

As a multi-award-winning psychologist who has accumulated over 25 years of practice with high-risk Aboriginal clients – 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.

This is what separates Dr Westerman’s work from the rest of the field. As a psychologist, she 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
  • Managing my mood and identifying culturally related depression; anxiety (nerves) and how community demands on my work are managed
  • Managing cultural dilemmas-what happens when my work role conflicts with my cultural role
  • How cultural identity impacts – how do mainstream work environment create an additional layer of stress
  • Practical strategies on how to ensure health and wellbeing at work and home. This also includes information on how to monitor your health and wellbeing and 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

The aim of this program is to increase participant awareness of the role changes that will occur when trying to manage the demands of full-time work with the extraordinary stressors that continue with balancing the cultural demands of family, community and culture. The difficulties in managing the transition from community into predominantly mainstream work environments whilst also maintaining cultural obligations are explored. A myriad of issues are explored such as providing an increased awareness of the extent of changes involved in managing full-time employment whilst also retaining a sense of cultural identity. Psychological, individual, and family adjustment work role change and demands is examined and the issue of mental wellbeing explored in relation to this.

Additional information

Location & date:

DARWIN – March 18th & 19th, 2025, PERTH – April 3rd & 4th, 2025, BRISBANE – May 13th & 14th, 2025, TOWNSVILLE – May 15th & 16th, 2025, MELBOURNE – May 28th & 29th, 2025, SYDNEY – June 3rd & 4th, 2025, ADELAIDE – June 19th & 20th, 2025
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