All Courses
Information and skills for working with Yolngu and other First Nations groups
Self-Drive online Courses
- Enrol and get lifetime access at low introduction prices. Courses are in self-drive video format. Site supports Individual or Group purchases
- Gain real cross-cultural competency, communication, community development and human dynamic knowledge and skills
- Learn the original Australian (Aboriginal) culture through the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land
- Practise new, exciting ways of communicating and avoid cross-cultural burnout
Cultural Learning Courses
Worldview Course
Understanding worldview is essential for working with people of different cultural backgrounds, yet its importance is rarely recognised.
Kinship Course
This Kinship course is an invaluable and comprehensive insight into the kinship system of the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land.
Tips For Teachers
Richard Trudgen delivers ten essential tips for working on community with First Nations Australians, through the lens of the Yolngu worldview.
Cultural Safety
17-minute video where Richard works through 10 fundamental issues needed for a deeper understanding of cultural safety.
Cross-Cultural Starter Pack
This starter pack presents a new, safe and exciting approach to cross-cultural online training for you or your staff. The first course offers an integral understanding of Worldview and how it differs from culture to culture. The second course delivers an in-depth introduction to the complex Yolngu Kinship system. The Tips for Teachers (and others) course delivers information on navigating some of the challenges of living and teaching on community. Finally, the Cultural Safety module offers ten fundamental principles everyone needs to navigate cultural differences in a mutually respectful way.
This pack delivers a running start to becoming culturally competent while learning many exciting things about Yolngu culture — one of the the original Australian cultures. Please contact us for a dynamic group training package that includes other helpful resources.
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Worldview Course Content
There are 2 chapters in the Worldview Course.
Click the links below to find out about each individual chapter.
Introduction to Worldview
Understanding worldview is essential knowledge for anyone who wants to supercharge their daily communication efforts with people from all walks of life.
In cross-cultural relationships, differences in people’s worldviews can create major, invisible communication issues that result in an inability to come to agreements and understandings.
Yet strangely, worldview is a concept we hear little about.
Worldview Chapter 1 offers an opportunity to delve into new frontiers of understanding the world around us, while learning some effective tools for everyday communication.
Deeper thoughts
There are often very strange and unexpected differences in people’s worldviews, outside our normal experience and understanding.
In this chapter, we learn some historical examples of different worldviews, and we’re given tools for how to engage with people in a way that allows us to discover their worldview in relation to different subjects.
We will also share some tips on how to use this knowledge to support Yolngu people and other marginalised groups.
Kinship Course Content
There are 3 chapters in the Kinship Course.
Click the links below to find out about each individual chapter.
Introduction to the Yolngu Kinship System
The Yolngu kinship system, notoriously difficult and extremely complex to understand, is made simpler here using a step-by-step approach.
Kinship Connections
Kinship Connections takes us on a journey to see what family and life are like through the eyes of a young Yolngu person from North-east Arnhem Land.
Kinship Avoidances
Kinship avoidance relationships are poorly understood and often poorly translated as we will see in this chapter, causing great problems for Yolngu people.
Bookshop
The book Why Warriors lie Down and Die is a cultural awareness course in itself.
You can also purchase other great, in-depth learning resources.
Although my father tried to explain to me the Aboriginal culture and way of life, what I saw contradicted this. This seminar opened my eyes and I can now see the other side to the Aboriginal culture. It has been a great experience.
Thank you.
Why Warriors respectfully acknowledge the Yolngu people, Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work.
We pay respect to all First Nations peoples, past, present and emerging.