Working Better with Nunga Kids

Learning Mode

Face to Face

Location

SA

Duration

Full Day

Course Information

Course Overview 

This short course is designed to deepen participants’ understanding of how to adapt their thinking and practice to better support Aboriginal (Nunga) children. It builds confidence in working from a trauma-informed framework, equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful and positive difference. 

Who Should Attend 

Developed by Aboriginal practitioners, this one-day course is tailored for those working with children and families. Facilitators draw on their lived experience, cultural knowledge, and professional expertise to support participants in developing culturally appropriate approaches to working with Aboriginal children. 

What You Will Learn 

  • Healing and Learning the Aboriginal Way 
  • The interconnected spheres of Mind, Body, and Spirit 
  • The importance of holistic healing and wellbeing within Aboriginal cultures 
  • How children’s behaviour can be understood as a form of communication 
  • Trauma-informed practice and Aboriginal pedagogy 
  • Culturally appropriate, holistic and therapeutic responses when working with Nunga children 
  • The ongoing impacts of invasion and intergenerational trauma 
  • Ways to support cultural connection, identity, and pride

What the Course Involves 

Through a trauma-informed lens and the application of Aboriginal pedagogy, participants explore how to adapt their thinking and practice to respond to children’s behaviour as communication. The one-day course combines cultural knowledge, lived experience, professional expertise, and holistic approaches to healing and wellbeing. 

Why This Course Matters 

The course emphasises the importance of holistic, therapeutic responses when working with Nunga children. It also highlights the ongoing impacts of invasion and intergenerational trauma, and the need to actively support cultural connection, identity, and pride. 

Related Short Courses 

  • Child Focused Practice 
  • Conversations at the kitchen table 
  • Introduction to narrative approaches to responding to families and young people affected by trauma 
  • Family Group Conferencing coordinator training 
  • The Garden: Train the Facilitator Therapeutic Program 

Tailored Workshops 

Please contact us to discuss tailored workshop options to meet your organisation’s needs.

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the cultural, spiritual and economic sovereignty of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

We understand that the ongoing violation of this sovereignty continues to harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s relationships, health, wellbeing and aspirations.

We are committed to strengthening the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, families and communities.

We recognise that respecting and nurturing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is a benefit for all Australians.

We especially honour the Kaurna Elders of the Adelaide Plains and the Elders of the River Murray and Mallee Region, which includes: Ngaiawang, Ngawait, Nganguruku, Erawirung, Ngintait, Ngaraite, Ngarkat and small parts of Maraura and Daanggali, and Elders of Barngarla Country in the Far North and Boandik Land in Mount Gambier, upon whose country Relationships Australia South Australia offices are located.

As educators we recognise the Ancient Universities and ways of knowing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have existed for millennia, and we respect and honour First Nations expertise.