Having the Hard Conversations – Good practice in working with resistance to Indigenous health and cultural safety

Date:           Tuesday 21  to Wednesday 22  April, 2015
Venue:         Health Sciences Lecture Theatre Complex, Flinders University
Format:        Day One – Public Symposium  Day Two – Invited Roundtable

This two-day event is presented by the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being, Adelaide (Flinders University) and its collaborators in the 2014-15 National Senior Teaching Fellowship, Having the Hard Conversations: Strengthening pedagogical effectiveness by working with student and institutional resistance to Indigenous health curriculum.

The Symposium (Day One) is open to all.  Some key questions that the Symposium will address will be:

• How do we turn disengagement into continuing engagement with Aboriginal health /cultural  safety training?
•  What would diminish resistance / make the conversation easier?
•  What would it take to turn organisations, services or systems into culturally-safe ones?

Day Two is an invited Roundtable, designed for scholars, educators, health professional organisations, administrators, health and human services practitioners, public servants, NGOs and Indigenous community and health organisation representatives.

For more information, please contact Ms Di Autio, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-being, Adelaide: (0)8 7221 8599; email di.autio@flinders.edu.au.