Cultural Competence Training - Victorian Private Real Estate Sector

This training is specifically targeted at Non-Indigenous People working within Organisations or Agents across the Private Real Estate, Rental and Housing Sector in Victoria. 

Training Format 

This online training consists of all pre-recorded video content and is housed on a professional online course platform making it accessible via login portal or app on any smart device. 

Although your agent or organisation might enforce completion timeframes, the format of this training allows for a highly flexible and independent learning approach. 

The online training is presented in the format of Campfires (Modules), Circles (Sub-Modules & Yarns (Specific Topics Under Each). 

The majority of the content featured in this resource is divided into two Campfires: 

• Foundational Cultural Awareness Knowledge. 
• Real Estate Specific - The Aboriginal Experience.  

Please find below the Campfires and Yarns featured in the Online Training Experience. 

Campfire 1: Introductions 

• Introduction to Yarn Bark & why this training exists. 

Campfire 2: Foundational Knowledge

• Aboriginal Language Map & Colonisation Is Still Here. 
• Self-Determination & Truth-Telling. 
• Stolen Generation & History of Child Removal In Australia. 
• Cultural Safety Within Yourself

Circle 1: Understanding Cultural Connection 

• Exploring Cultural Connection
• The Complexities of Connecting To Culture. 
• Disconnection From Culture & Its Impact. 

Circle 2: Understanding Trauma Through a First Nations Worldview

• Introduction. 
• Intergenerational Trauma.
• Institutional Trauma. 
• Collective Trauma.
• Historical Trauma.
• Environmental Trauma. 
• What Does It Mean To Be Trauma Informed?

Campfire 3: Private Realestate / Rental Market - The Aboriginal Experience

• Homeless In Our Homelands.
•  Home = Healing. 
• Racism In The Industry. 
• Addressing The Support Service Stigma. 
• Overcrowding. 
• The Power of Human to Human Connection. 
• Closing Yarn. 

To discuss purchasing a training registration package for your Organisation or Agent please contact Will Austin at [email protected]

Providing access to your staff is simple and straightforward & Yarn Bark is here to support you along the way. 

Aboriginal Housing Victoria 

Aboriginal Housing Victoria is the largest registered, non-government Aboriginal housing organisation in Australia. As a not-for-profit, independent Aboriginal community organisation, AHV provides culturally safe, affordable, and secure housing to nearly 5,000 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Victorians in over 1,800 housing units across the State.

Through the provision of secure housing by an Aboriginal rental provider, AHV helps strengthen Aboriginal communities and cultural ties and aims to maintain and sustain tenancies, to break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage.

In addition to delivering housing services to those most in need of support, AHV is also the lead agency for Victoria’s Aboriginal housing and homelessness policy, Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort. As the housing policy lead in the Aboriginal community, AHV has dual roles to hold the Government to account in securing the resources and reforms to implement the policy, while we support sector development to empower Victoria’s Aboriginal community to determine its chosen housing future.

Yarn Bark

Yarn Bark is a First Nations led organization supporting First Nations Communities and Young People to heal and realize their inherited strength, knowledge and capacity to live holistically healthy lives through connection to culture, community and country. Working to build resilience to external societal pressures, behaviours and perceptions and relinquishing First Nations Peoples from entrenched intergenerational trauma and sadness. 

 Yarn Bark is committed to forging deep connections between First Nations Peoples and Communities and Non – Indigenous People who live and work across Australia’s traditional lands. We facilitate these connections through transformational experiences that create energetic and spiritual spaces for all people to connect to the essence and heartbeat of First Nations Culture, Community and Way of Life. 

Yarn Bark combines ancient knowledge, methodologies and practices across all elements of our work in the modern world. Yarn Barks holds over 10 years experience in facilitation, consultancy, community engagement, systems change and co-design. 

In recent years, Yarn Bark has led the co-design, creation and production of a series of bespoke Online Learning Experiences targeted at building the cultural competence and cultural safety of diverse sectors and systems such such as Health Care System, Child Protection System, Housing System and AOD Sector. With over 10,000 individuals and organisations enrolled throughout Australia.