Essential Aboriginal Insights: A Guide for Anyone Involved in Closing Gaps in Australia

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

Every Aboriginal community is different and we must commit to learning about the cultural diversity and complexity of specific Aboriginal Communities. Aboriginal people are not one people or one culture, they are many seperate cultures with special rights and interests. Learning their ways will enrich your life.

“This Book offers my learnings over my lifetime with a focus on a universal Aboriginal cultural value of sharing. I want to share this with you. I want to empower the relationships between Aboriginal Communities and those responsible for achieving positive outcomes for Aboriginal people. I want Aboriginal Communities to be understood, respected and supported.

The learning that is shared in this book is not accessible from any education institution or system. The learning comes from working with and for Aboriginal people from within the Aboriginal Community system. If you are genuinely and authentically committed to achieving positive outcomes for Aboriginal people, then you will appreciate and respect the advice and guidance offered through this book.”

Aboriginal Insights was created by Ngarluma-Aboriginal woman, Jolleen Hicks in 2016. Jolleen has a background that covers successful Aboriginal Engagement with over twenty separate Aboriginal groups in Australia; leadership; and business. Jolleen believes that reconciliation cannot be…

54 pages : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 22 cm Second Edition. Signed by Author. (inscription) #160523

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Assumptions
• Research
• Phase 1 Consultation
• Phase 2 Consultation
• Consultation & engagement methods
• Consulation or engagement event
• Building respectful relationships
• The Aboriginal community world
• Awareness of any cultural avoidance rules
• Leadership
• Our Australian heritage
• Summary
• Glossary.