Mundanara is the Managing Director/ Co-Founder and workshop facilitator of the BlackCard PtyLtd, a 100% Aboriginal owned business certified with Supply Nation. BlackCard's co-founder is Dr Lilla Watson, a respected Aboriginal elder, artist and educator.
BlackCard’s purpose is working with people, not for people, with the genius of Aboriginal Knowledge.
In this episode we cover:
- How to introduce ourselves based on humanness, and who you are is more important than what you do.
- Mundanara's work with the BlackCard, reducing conflict and racism within organisations
- Creating a university-level education where elders are the cultural reference point
- What it means to live by Aboriginal terms of engagement
- Some shocking statistics on life expectancy, poverty levels and the Stolen Generation - of which Mundanara's mother is one
- Breaking intergenerational cycles of trauma and poverty
- Mother guilt, and feeling our emotions
- Hope she has for the future, and to one day be a grandmother
