About: This workshop draws on lived experience, indigenous knowledge systems, postcolonial theory, narrative therapy, racial and trauma theory to explore understandings of colonialism, its structure and architecture, its operation and ongoing impacts, as well as ways of countering its impacts. 

Outcomes: This work will strengthen participants knowledge and awareness of colonising processes and how they work. Identify skills and the roles we play in how each of us can counter these processes, as well as the capacity to act to influence change and to decolonise ourselves, the systems and structures that we live and work within.

About your facilitator: Rob brings significant insights 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.

Testimonial: "Rob's workshop was fantastic, presented with vulnerability, compassion, grace and courage. The workshop really combined head and heart with a process to connect each to the other. I really valued his material on the Architecture of Colonialism, taking a complex multi layered / multi faceted concept and explaining it in an easy and accessible manner, allowing each participant to locate themselves within the architecture and reflect on what that means for them. His discussion on the Coat of Colonialism was an amazing and creative way of helping participants understand what impact colonialism has on First Nations people, and what impact it can have on colonists as well. The workshop flowed seamlessly from exploration and understanding to action, helping us to identify what actions we might take given our location within the architecture of colonialism and given the contents of our coat of colonialism. This workshop is a must for anyone new to this material or an old hand." 
-  Matt Bell, Chairperson ANTaR Victoria and Gembrook Retreat Community member.

Date: Saturday 16th August

Time: Arrive 10am for a cuppa, 10.30am start // 12.30pm lunch. Finish at 3.15pm

Cost: Sliding Scale at $60/$90/$120 

There is a limit of 20 tickets to this event, so we recommend get in quick!