Corporate Engagement
You are invited to a cultural immersion on Country, to explore how you can make a difference with and for our Mob.
Two days on Wakka Wakka Country, held with the Indigenous Futures Foundation, the Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council, and the Wakka Wakka Elders who carry cultural authority. Most partnerships begin as a transaction. This one begins differently. It begins with your team on Country, and with a relationship that runs both ways.
What the days hold.
This is the full arc. What suits your team depends on the group, the season, the travel. So read it as the shape of the thing, not a fixed timetable. We settle the detail with you.
Welcome & ceremony
A Welcome to Country and Elder greeting, an initial corroboree with dancing, didgeridoo and clapsticks, then a chance to learn a short dance and the story behind it.
Yarning & language
Elders share Wakka Wakka history and lore, tribal boundaries, totems, and the meaning behind names like Wakka Wakka, Barambah and Murri, followed by a short language lesson.
Story & the Ration Shed
A full tour of the Ration Shed, the museum that holds Cherbourg's history in its own words. Most people come expecting a museum. Most people leave quieter than they arrived.
Arts, craft & weaponry
Painting, weaving and jewellery made by hand, and a lesson in crafting spears, boomerangs and clubs, with demonstrations and practice.
Out on Country
Horse trekking out bush to hunt, fish and gather, with bush tucker and bush medicine along the way, then a cook up over fire and coals, and a Kup Murri to close.
Choosing the shape
How the formats tend to work is set out below. Read it as a starting point to shape together with the Elders and the Council, never a menu handed across a counter.
Three ways to come on Country.
Format A
Half day taster.
Welcome and ceremony, a yarning circle with Elders, and one hands on element such as weaving or painting.
Room for a larger group, or a way to add Country to a regional visit already on the calendar.
Format B
One day.
The Welcome and yarning, the Ration Shed, and a fuller arts, craft and weaponry session, finishing with a cook up.
A full day on Country, home by evening.
Format C
Two day immersion.
The full arc, including horse trekking out on Country to hunt, fish and gather, then a cook up and Kup Murri, and more unhurried time with Elders.
The fullest version. The one where the relationship, not the itinerary, becomes the point.
Which one is right? That depends on your group, your season, and how far you are willing to travel. In kilometres, and in intent. We will work it out together.
What your people take from it.
What your people take from it
Teams arrive expecting to watch. They leave having taken part. The worth of that sits in three places: cultural learning that is lived rather than slidedecked; a day that binds a team in a way an offsite rarely does; and the first thread of a real relationship with a community that is building something meant to last.
The bigger picture
This is held by the Indigenous Futures Foundation, an Indigenous led charity, alongside the Council and the Wakka Wakka Elders who carry cultural authority. And it is not a standalone day out. It is one part of a six year programme in Cherbourg running on two engines at once: economic development, and health and wellbeing.
So when your people come on Country, what are they actually buying? Not an experience. They are meeting the community they would build alongside, and seeing, first hand, the work their partnership would carry.
Longer term engagement
The Festival and the Cultural Arts programme. The economic pathway that walks every year from 2027 to 2032 toward the Brisbane Games. Food security and community wellbeing, the quieter engine, and the work the Foundation was founded to do. One immersion. Many threads leading out from it.
A clear reconciliation commitment.
Most partners arrive here through a Reconciliation Action Plan. And whatever tier your plan sits at, there is a question worth sitting with: what is the clearest commitment you can actually make? Bringing your people onto Country is one of the few answers that holds.
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Cultural learning & respect
Cultural learning and respect, met on Country in a way no workshop can reach.
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Relationships
A named, two way partnership. Welcome to Country at your events. Fundraising that shows up for National Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC.
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Opportunities
Skilled volunteering, procurement, training pathways. The opportunities side opens as the programme grows, and as the relationship earns it.
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Sector fit
Cultural tourism, workforce training and regional economic participation. A fit across service, resources and travel sectors.
The days, in glimpses.
Placeholder imagery, to be replaced with photography from your immersion.
Start small, and grow.
Most partners start small, then grow. The simplest beginning is to bring a group on Country, in whatever format suits, and name the partnership. It asks little or no new budget, and it satisfies real commitments from the first day.
What follows, follows. Programmes, people, deeper investment. They come as the relationship earns them, not before.
The next step
A short planning conversation.
A short conversation to settle the format, the timing, the group, and to talk honestly about where this might lead. We would be glad to host you on Country.