1 Day Workshop
IPS has been at the forefront of research, development and delivery of cultural competency intervention programs CCIPs since 1998. This is based on Dr Westerman’s PhD research which focused on clearly defining the skills, abilities and aptitudes that predict cultural competence – defined BY Aboriginal people through focus group methodologies. This information has then be used to design unique training programs which are not cultural awareness as they are about behavioural change. They are defined as being psychoeducational rather than awareness based. These programs ensure that the skills component of the workshop are successfully implemented by employing dual theories of stages of behavioural change with the neuroscience of racism.
This training is best in the hands of psychologists – and best in the hands of Indigenous psychologists.
Dr Westerman stands as an industry leader in this complex application of training and intervention in a way that has demonstrated measurable impacts on her participants.
With words like cultural awareness, cultural safety, cultural security, and cultural competency are being thrown around so much that it becomes confusing to those who are just wanting to ensure better diversity management; worker retention; productivity and that workers feel inspired and valued.
Dr Tracy Westerman AM, one of Australia’s leading psychologists unpacks the difference and explains why true cultural competency can only occur with a psycho-educative approach. This necessitates the understanding of the complexity of behavioural change but also why racism continues to evoke our strongest reactions and is therefore the hardest change to achieve.
As a multi-award winning psychologist, her work in the area of cultural competency is seminal and bespoke in that it applies the neuroscience of racism with a fundamental question:
“Why do people change” – this understanding 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 competency that keep individuals and organisations stuck in behaviours that lead to continual poor outcomes. She has undertaken critical research into racial neuroscience which shows what prevents change and why human beings by our nature, resist it.
This training is not cultural awareness, it is about behavioural change.
You will:
✔ Complete the General Cultural Competency Profile (GCCP) to measure your baseline cultural competencies, and receive a personal feedback report which can be used as a cultural supervision plan. THIS IS THE ONLY CLINICALLY AND CULTURALLY VALIDATED measure of cultural competency in Australia and by itself improves skills and behaviours.
✔ Understand cultural competence and how to achieve focused, sustained shifts in core areas-this will include how to identify automatic thoughts and challenge those thoughts in a way that is specific to the individual.
✔ Increase retention of Aboriginal people in the workplace.
✔ Learn why current recruitment practice fail to correctly talent identify due to cultural bias