Putama Consultants
Putama Consultants provide in-service training and education on Truth-Telling and cultural practice frameworks for organisation and schools structures. Putama Consultants is own and lead by First Nations Peoples. Putama Consulting works with organizations to help bridge the two worlds together in a beneficial and respectful way. The consultants provide workshops across the following:
- 1. Cultural Humility – Cultural humility incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in our lives, such as the patient-physician dynamic, and to developing mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
- 2. Cultural Practice Framework – To embed Cultural Practice with an organisation requires culturally informed and systems-informed practices, and an enabling environment. Culturally informed and systems-informed practices is needed to understand and integrate wider structural, cultural and political context and drivers that created and perpetuate the current climate.
- 3. Aboriginal Spirituality – The strength of our Ancestors and Elders has provided us with the footprints of endless of opportunities for all of us to consider and action. The resilience based on culture and spirituality has taken us to high level of spiritual connection, dedication and commitment to success in our own faith. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples we must acknowledge who we are and our connection to Country/s and living systems in order to be fully participating in the wider Australian culture and other forms of spirituality such as Christianity.