Mahana Culture

Name: Mahana Culture
Address: Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, VIC, AU
Telephone: +61 428 504 240

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Mahana Culture awakens cultural dignity and builds Cultural Responsive practice capacity through specialised training and consultancy/project management

Mahana Culture is here to provide capacity building towards cultural responsive practice. With a passion for what a Cultural Lens can bring to people, business and organisational outcomes the Mahana Culture family have brought together a unique blend of skills, experiences, stories and talents to take clients on a journey through their own culture into a whole new world.

18/04/2023

Are you on a journey of culturally responsiveness?

Are interested in building your cultural intelligence capacity for intercultural collaboration? Are you passionate about dignified engagement with stakeholders? Then this one-day training is for you. If you've already participated in Mahana Culture's ESSENCE Workshop, this is full-day workshop is the next step in your journey.

Our LENS Introduction workshop is open to individuals; across industries and roles the workshop is both reflective and interactive, our facilitators will demonstrate the principals of culturally responsive practice sharing frameworks that you can take back into your teams.

Join us on Tuesday 16th May or Wednesday 31st May from 9am - 4pm AEST
Cost $650 AUD

Register your spot here - https://forms.gle/8CHbYTcMxeh4kaBK9

02/11/2022

Our 2-day LENS Immersion workshop is for YOU! As we've worked with teams and organisations over the years, we've so often been asked "but what about for individuals who want to advance their culturally responsive capacity?"

If you're passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion this workshop will build your capacity in cultural responsiveness and collaboration.

Stories, music and great food accompany our warm culturally responsive curriculum which offers frameworks and tools developed from Indigenous inquiry and diverse world views.

https://events.humanitix.com/lens-immersion-culturally-responsive-collaboration

21/10/2022

The relational space - the Vā - or the space-between means everything to us. Connecting and collaborating with warmth for fiery change in cultural responsiveness is what we do.

There is some exciting stuff coming for those of you who have reached out looking for ways you can join us in-person. Join us here in our Mahana Culture Community and we will be in touch soon!

https://mailchi.mp/51a07cd75c8a/joinmahanaculturecommunity

04/10/2022

"Great training experience. Felt safe and warm to share and learn." LENS Course Participant.

There is no better type of feedback for us than knowing that our facilitators have created a warm space for our participants. With the warmth, we're able to stretch our understandings of culture, to grown our capacity in cultural responsiveness and feel courageous enough to reflect and share in the group setting.

Have you taken part in one of our workshops or courses? Add some more of your own feedback 👇👇👇

05/08/2022

For all our "Facey" followers, we encourage you to be "Linky" followers too....

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mahana-culture/

REALLY loving the feedback we're getting on LinkedIn from the McKinsey & Company Australia and New Zealand Leadership conference where we presented our ESSENCE Workshop this week. Go check it out!

250+ from business learning and teaching together on Kabi Kabi / Gubbi Gubbi Country in Queensland.

We certainly are "inspired and hopeful"....

03/08/2022

At Mahana Culture we talk a lot about spaces.

About dignifying spaces.

About acknowledging spaces.

And more specifically, about the spaces-between which we often refer to as Vā - as explained by Samoan Poet and Writer, Albert Wendt.

We use this Indigenous enquiry of Vā and the spaces-between in our learning and development programs as a process of Reconnecting, Re-Imagining and Recreating on the journey of Cultural Responsiveness.

Our Elder Gregg Morris so generously shares his work of Vā and thoughts in his PermaQueer TEDx Nurture: Teu le Vā.

https://youtu.be/-Z0nQE4eaOU

27/04/2022

We agree.

Poet, writer and activist, the greatness of Maya Angelou was in her ability to tell a story, and her power to connect and to move people was in her ability to tell her own story.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

What if we told you there was a cultural story in us all? What if our cultural stories were built around the tales of our past, of our birth but also of the choices that we made, and continue to make?

Our ESSENCE Workshop is a place for uncovering these stories. Our cultural stories are dynamic and empowering, they allow us to celebrate difference and find the sameness that connects us.

And for the first time, Mahana Culture is excited to be launching our 2022 series of workshops aimed at individuals who are looking to take their first steps in the journey of culturally responsive practice.

Register your interest and be first to hear when our ESSENCE Workshop dates are released.

REGISTER HERE https://mailchi.mp/mahanaculture/ryi-essence

06/04/2022

What defines the work that we do?

There are a number of definitions that bring to life Culturally Responsive Practice, making it easier for us, and our partners as we journey together.

Defining Cultural Humility, or even understanding the role of the Dignitarian is not the crux of the work, but it makes for a far better equipped journey if we can clearly define the nuances of cultural work.

Our LENS Immersion and LENS Introduction course workbooks are loaded with pre and post learnings that do just this, as well as a comprehensive list of words, phrases and theories with definitions that support Mahana Culture's frameworks of CRP.

Are there any definitions that you're searching for in your own cultural journey? Comment below 👇

31/03/2022

with Meadows Primary School in Melbourne's North.

The School is wonderfully diverse with 18 different language backgrounds, 6% of students considered refugee or new migrants
and 70% percent of the 310 students across Foundation to Grade 6 have English as a second language.

“Cultural training within schools has often focussed on gathering knowledge of specifics around a particular cultural group, usually a minority. However, the work that Mahana Culture is doing is far more inclusive. With the lens of culturally responsive practice we’ll be better equipped to recognise the dynamic nature of 'what is culture' and nurture the relationships between students, families that is contextually relevant to our school community,” commented Anthony Potesta, School Principal.

Already the school has seen new teacher and staff relationships form and the introduction of our Blood Birth Choice framework being used to better understand culture of self and other.

At Mahana Culture, we're looking forward to seeing the outcomes this new partnership creates for the Meadows P.S community. We'll be back in Broadmeadows in May for Day 2 of the LENS Immersion.

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Wurundjeri Country
Melbourne, VIC

Telephone

+61 428 504 240

Website

http://www.mahanaculture.com/

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