Early learning
Our early learning activities are based on nature connection and wellbeing, inspired by our values at CERES: “helping people fall in love with the Earth, again.”
“Colonialism didn’t just steal land – it rewrote the story of nature. It taught us to see the Earth as something to dominate, not something to belong to. The fight for decolonisation is the fight to unlearn this lie and rebuild our relationship with the planet.” Earthly Education
This workshop will take you on a first hand experiential journey using storytelling and reflective group discussion to build a deeper knowledge of colonialism.
What you will experience
The workshop draws on lived experience, indigenous knowledge systems, postcolonial theory, narrative therapy, racial and trauma theory.
Suitability
This course is suitable for first nations allies, policy makers, managers, boards, executives, psychologists, educators, health, social work, community services and justice services staff.
Rob Patton brings significant insights into the experience of what it’s like to live as a colonised person based on his own lived experience and 40 years of working alongside indigenous communities. Rob is a social worker by training and has a background in community development, family and psychodynamic therapy.
Rob has developed this series of workshops to raise awareness of the mechanisms and forces that oppress and subjugate so many in contemporary settings today. Rob has directly witnessed the multiple impacts that a lack of knowledge, skills and consideration of colonialism in everyday life, in health and other services has on people. He brings first hand insight into how to decolonise and bring about change.
This work will strengthen participants’:
Terms and conditions
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