Reconciliation Action Plan Support for Workplaces and Schools
Bring Your Reconciliation Commitments to Life
Aboriginal-led cultural immersions, workshops and learning experiences help your staff, students and educators put reconciliation into practice.
Your Reconciliation Action Plan sets out what you want to achieve. Giving your people opportunities to listen, learn and participate helps turn those commitments into everyday action.
Aboriginal Cultural Immersions helps workplaces and schools connect with Aboriginal cultural practitioners who share their knowledge, perspectives and living cultures. Whether you are beginning your reconciliation journey or implementing an established RAP, we can help you choose an experience with a clear purpose.
How Our Cultural Immersions Support Your RAP
Reconciliation Australia’s RAP framework centres on relationships, respect and opportunities. Our contribution is practical: creating opportunities for people to learn directly from Aboriginal educators, engage with cultural knowledge and consider how that learning connects to their responsibilities.
Build Cultural Understanding
Cultural awareness sessions, storytelling and discussion give participants opportunities to explore different perspectives, reflect on assumptions and identify areas for further learning.
Encourage Respectful Engagement
Yarning circles and facilitated workshops make space for listening. Teams can carry that experience into discussions about how they communicate and build relationships.
Understand Country and Cultural Protocols
Learning about connection to Country helps participants understand the importance of place, cultural authority and respectful acknowledgements.
Involve Staff and Students
Participatory art, music, dance and immersion experiences create shared learning opportunities that can connect with your reconciliation priorities.
Give Significant Dates a Learning Purpose
Bring cultural learning into National Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC Week and other relevant occasions, then continue the conversation through activities across the year.
Engage Aboriginal Cultural Expertise
Booking cultural educators, artists and performers creates opportunities to value their professional expertise and include cultural engagement in your planning and budgets.
The connection to your RAP depends on your commitments, the agreed session content and what your organisation does afterwards. Share your priorities with us when planning your booking.
Workplace RAP Support Through Cultural Learning
A workplace RAP needs participation across the organisation. Staff need opportunities to understand why reconciliation matters and how it relates to the way they work.
We work with corporate teams, government departments, councils, universities and community organisations, offering cultural training and workshops suited to different audiences and settings.
Connect Your Commitments With Your People
Aboriginal-led learning gives employees opportunities to hear perspectives and experiences that may be unfamiliar to them. Depending on the agreed program, sessions can explore Country, culture, identity, histories and respectful engagement.
Your RAP working group can introduce the relevant commitment before the session and bring participants together afterwards to discuss what the learning means for their work.
Make Cultural Learning Participatory
A facilitated conversation, collaborative art workshop or immersion combining several activities gives teams different ways to participate. An artist-led workshop can open discussion about storytelling and cultural expression, while a yarning session allows time for listening and reflection.
Choose the format according to what you want people to learn. Where workplace responsibilities are a central objective, include dedicated discussion and reflection time.
Build Understanding of Country and Cultural Protocols
Respectful engagement includes understanding whose Country you are on and who has the authority to share particular knowledge.
A Welcome to Country is delivered by Traditional Owners, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people authorised by them. An Acknowledgement of Country can be offered by anyone. Understanding the distinction helps teams plan events and everyday acknowledgements thoughtfully.
We can discuss appropriate cultural contributions for your event, including Welcome to Country coordination and ceremonies where available and culturally appropriate.
Support Learning Across Your RAP Journey
Reconciliation Australia offers four workplace RAP types: Reflect, Innovate, Stretch and Elevate. Each involves different commitments and expectations.
For teams beginning their learning, a program can establish shared understanding and identify questions to explore. For organisations implementing existing commitments, workshops can form part of a planned cultural learning schedule. Experienced teams can build on previous learning through a focused brief and clear follow-through.
School RAP Support Through Aboriginal Cultural Incursions
Schools and early learning services develop RAPs through Narragunnawali, Reconciliation Australia’s education program. Its framework connects reconciliation with classroom learning, school life and community relationships.
Our school immersions bring Aboriginal-led learning directly to students and teachers. Experiences can include storytelling, art, dance, music and cultural knowledge, selected for your students’ ages, group sizes and learning objectives.
Bring Aboriginal Voices Into the Classroom
Learning directly from Aboriginal educators gives students opportunities to listen, ask questions and engage with the perspectives shared by the people delivering the program.
This can contribute to Narragunnawali’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Classroom action. Teachers can revisit the experience through discussion, reflection and subsequent lessons.
Connect Students With Local Knowledge
Where an experience involves local Elders or Traditional Owners, students can learn about histories and cultural connections specific to the place where they live and learn. Local knowledge must be shared by people with the appropriate cultural authority.
Tell us about your school’s existing community relationships when planning a visit so the experience can sit within the work you are already doing.
Give Reconciliation a Place in Classroom Conversations
A cultural experience can open conversations about respect, fairness, belonging and responsibility. To support explicit learning about reconciliation, include that objective in your program brief and follow-up teaching.
Narragunnawali’s Teach about Reconciliation action encourages learning about reconciliation’s meaning, history and progress throughout the year.
Connect Your Incursion With the Curriculum
Plan the visit as part of a learning sequence. Share your year level, topic and intended learning outcomes so the experience can connect with what students are studying.
Teachers can build on relevant themes using appropriate resources and respecting any limits on reusing cultural material. This supports the ongoing inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in teaching and learning.
Include Teachers in the Learning
Staff participation helps connect a visiting program with everyday teaching. Teachers can reflect on their understanding, the resources they use and the questions they want to explore further.
Dedicated staff learning can complement student incursions and maintain momentum between visits. This connects with Narragunnawali’s emphasis on ongoing cultural responsiveness for staff.
Choose an Experience That Supports Your Purpose
Our workshops and immersions offer different starting points for reconciliation learning. Choose a format that connects with your audience and the commitment you want to put into practice.
Cultural Awareness Training and Yarning Circles
Create time for listening, questions and facilitated discussion. These experiences suit groups wanting to develop understanding and explore the meaning behind their reconciliation commitments.
Aboriginal Art Workshops
Bring participants together through guided creative learning. Engage with the artist’s explanations, cultural perspectives and permitted approaches to storytelling.
Discuss permissions before reproducing workshop artwork in a RAP document, website or other publication.
Storytelling, Dance and Music
Introduce participants to living cultural expression through the knowledge and practices shared by performers. Include explanation and reflection when cultural learning is a central objective.
School Immersion Programs
Combine activities into a broader experience for a class, year level or whole-school group. Options include shorter workshops and full-day programs with rotating activities.
Ceremonies and RAP Events
Mark a RAP launch, gathering or significant occasion with an appropriate cultural contribution. The format depends on location, cultural protocols and the practitioners available.
Programs Across the Year
Plan cultural engagement around your staff learning calendar or school terms. Connect each experience with previous learning and a clear next step.
Cultural content varies between Nations, communities and facilitators. Each program is shaped by the knowledge and cultural authority of the people delivering it.
Make the Experience Part of an Ongoing Reconciliation Program
A workshop has greater purpose when people understand why they are attending and what comes next. We suggest three steps when planning your booking.
Before: Identify the Commitment
Choose the RAP action or learning priority you want to support. Consider what participants already know, what you want them to explore and how the experience fits your existing relationships and activities.
During: Make Space to Participate
Allow time for the agreed activities, listening and questions. Give cultural educators room to guide the experience and explain any protocols.
Afterwards: Reflect and Act
Ask participants to identify something they learned and a practical action they can take. In a workplace, this could inform a team discussion or further learning. In a school, it could become part of a lesson sequence or student reflection.
For your own RAP records, consider keeping the program outline, participation details, feedback and agreed next steps. Obtain permission before recording or sharing cultural content, images or stories.
Reconciliation Action Plan Workshops: Frequently Asked Questions
Do We Need a RAP to Book an Immersion or Workshop?
You can enquire whether you have an established RAP, are developing one or want to begin cultural learning. Tell us your objectives so we can discuss a suitable program.
Will a Workshop Fulfil Our RAP Requirements?
A relevant workshop can contribute to a cultural learning or engagement commitment. Your RAP working group needs to assess it against the wording of your action and any associated targets.
Our role is to deliver cultural experiences that support your work. Formal RAP development and endorsement sit within Reconciliation Australia’s processes, including Narragunnawali for schools and early learning services.
Can You Tailor a Program to Our Reconciliation Priorities?
Share your learning objectives, audience, location, preferred date and relevant RAP commitments. We can discuss suitable formats and available facilitators, with cultural content guided by the practitioners delivering it.
Can We Book for National Reconciliation Week or NAIDOC Week?
Yes. We deliver programs for these occasions and throughout the year. Planning ahead helps when arranging larger groups or particular dates.
Are Programs Available Across Australia?
We work across Australia, including metropolitan and regional locations. Availability, activities and travel arrangements depend on your location and the program requested. Contact us to discuss your venue and dates.
Official Reconciliation Action Plan Resources
For information about workplace RAP types and the official framework, visit Reconciliation Australia. For school and early learning RAP actions, explore Narragunnawali.
Let’s Plan the Next Step in Your Reconciliation Program
Bring us the commitment you want to put into practice.
Whether you are planning workplace cultural learning, a school immersion or workshops across the year, we can help you explore an experience that connects with your people and your purpose.
Tell Us About Your Program
Include your workplace, school or organisation, your location and preferred dates, participant numbers and student ages where relevant.
Share your learning priorities or relevant RAP actions, along with your available time and budget.
Listen. Learn. Participate. Carry the learning forward.