Shifting Ground

Who we are

Developed by Dr Lilly Brown and Genevieve Grieves, we support organisations and individuals from across diverse communities, including First Nations people, to begin difficult conversations as the first step to changing the way they do things.

Our work re-humanises First Nations peoples and compels organisations and individuals to value our knowledge, experience, diversity and ways of doing things.

What we do

We work with organisations to develop a critical language, understanding and practice of decolonisation, race, privilege, power and whiteness, cultural safety and collaboration.

Our services include:

• Cultural consultation - We work with organisations to develop a critical language, understanding and practice of decolonisation, race, privilege, power and whiteness, and cultural safety. Our interest is in critical friendships, long-term relationships where we support you over time to develop your knowledge and practice in this space.
  
• Community engagement - We work with organisations to support them in understanding what best practice collaboration looks like. Beginning with the development of a framework for understanding how colonisation, race and racism shape our interactions and result in extractive relationships, we co-create a new approach centred on First People’s ways of being and knowledge exchange that deeps your understanding of culture and ability to connect across communities.
  
• Crisis and risk management - We support organisations and individuals to navigate crisis and risk management from the foundation of deep relationships grounded in trust, reciprocity, power sharing and capacity building.
  
• Policy and strategy development - We provide tailored policy and strategy consultancy informed by a responsive approach. We acknowledge that the needs of organisations are often nuanced and complex, especially in the early stages of collective self-reflection and development of a practice aimed at valuing First Peoples knowledges and experiences.
  
• Workshops and training - Our training pathway is designed to foster deep and organisation-wide transformation in your relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which will inform best practice relations with all people. To ensure the change you seek is structural, initially, we propose an inductive five-stage approach to the delivery of this training in parallel to ongoing critical conversations with us at Shifting Ground.