Moving Forward Together in Aboriginal Women's Health: - Theses ...

Moving Forward TogetherJanet Kellyparking facilities. Ideally it would also have access to outside areas(particularly important for rural and remote people) and be reasonably near toaccommodation. We preferred to invest in local rather than multinationalorganisations, and if possible enter into a two-way beneficial partnership withthe venue organisation involved. After much consideration, we decided to holdthe conference at Tauondi College.Tauondi College is an Aboriginal Community College situated at PortAdelaide. Courses offering adult education including hospitality, communityservices, environmental and cultural tourism. Many Team SA members, myselfincluded, had existing relationships with staff, management and/or students atTauondi College. We also entered into a formal partnership with management.Interestingly, when reading Tauondi College promotional literature it said:Our way, the Tauondi Way; where the salt water meets fresh.• Involving cultural teaching and learning processes which embrace andinclude land, sea, inland waterways spirit, body and mind.• The sharing of a diversity of cultures in contemporary and traditionalexperiences and knowledges to create opportunities for life skills and life-longeducation.• An exchange of learning through informal and formal situations andexperiences such as role models and the sharing of understandings. (TauondiCollege 2008)This vision complemented the collective vision that we held and becameanother serendipitous moment.Receiving a signDuring our venue decision making process, we received a sign that confirmedfor many Team SA members that Tauondi College was the right place to holdthe conference. A small group of Team SA members were meeting at TauondiCollege with management and guides to see if the venue was suitable in size,resources, room availability etc. When we walked into one of the roomsupstairs, Kim O Donnell saw a poster on the wall of her old uncle. She told usthat this was the uncle who had been forced by white researchers to go with304