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• About the course
  
  WMPALC provides cultural awareness training (CAT) about Pilbara Aboriginal culture, history and languages. This training provides non-Indigenous people and staff of organizations with a very good basis with which to understand Pilbara Indigenous culture.
  WMPALC was ratified by the Commission of Elders in 2003 as the organisation most appropriate for the development and delivery of CAT training in the Pilbara.

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  Father McKelson and Lawmen at Bidyadanga
• Course delivery method
  
  WMPALC CAT is delivered by trained, highly experienced and skilled Pilbara Aboriginal trainers. These trainers provide a safe, sensitive and good humoured environment in which participants will enjoy the cross cultural experience.
  Trainers provide plenty of opportunity for participants to ask questions, consider information and absorb alternative perspectives on history, culture and language. A panel of Aboriginal Elders sits in with each CAT session to provide incidental information, recount appropriate stories and respond to participant’s questions. The panel is made up of people with strong Aboriginal cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and have been trained to provide this information in a sensitive and honest way.
  A certificate of participation is provided for CAT participants.
  
  
• Course content
  
  WMPALC CAT is delivered by highly skilled and trained Pilbara Aboriginal people. It includes information on:
  
  • languages of the Pilbara
  • skin groupings
  • family systems
  • the history of Pilbara European and Aboriginal contact
  • ways of working effectively with Aboriginal people
  • essential communication and negotiation skills
  • cross cultural communication and negotiation skills
  • and a lot more…
  
  WMPALC CAT has been delivered to hundreds of organizations and is the preferred provider of Pilbara CAT since 2001 including:
  
  
  • Port Hedland Regional hospital
  • Karratha Hospital
  • Department of Education and Training schools
  • BHP Billiton Mining Company
  • FMG Mining Company
  • Drug and Alcohol Authority and many others

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Pilbara Bush Food

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