🖤 💛 ❤️ HAPPY NAIDOC WEEK ❤️ 💛 🖤
Blak, Loud and Proud!
At times it can be difficult to keep the fire burning however every time resilience, strength, unity, resistance, relationships, respect and honoring our culture always reminds me to keep the smoke, the flame and the fire going. Our ancestors always stood up for what's right and have paved the way for 60,000+ years. It's so important to share stories, traditions, ways of knowing, being and doing and learn from our elders to keep the longest living culture thriving.
Learning and working with our people requires deep listening, understanding, respect and strong relationships to then take action towards achieving equal rights, and sovereignty. Especially when it comes to health outcomes.
For many years I have been listening to community, actively learning my culture and ways, co-creating spaces to help our people thrive in our own self-determined way. Working to decolonise constructs in corporate environments, and ensure First Nations Ways and proper ways are upheld which doesn't force us to assimilate but rather bring our own unique perspective to the spaces we work, live and play in.
To work with First Nations peoples and community it requires a deep understanding and commitment beyond ticking a box, or meeting a % target. It involves understanding ways of knowing,being and doing and upholding cultural humility, responsibility and taking on the colonial load.
It's about forming, building and strengthening meaningful relationships that acknowledge historical ways and support self-determination, to strive for outcomes that are equitable and inclusive.
NAIDOC week is a celebration to amplify and celebrate First Nations culture and voices.
Join in the celebration this week with your local community;
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Happy NAIDOC Week you Mob!
#NAIDOCWEEK2024 #BLAKLOUDPROUD
