Each year the History Trust delivers meaningful truth-telling to over 1000 participants in government agencies, not-for-profit organisations and businesses through our Impact program.

Facilitated as a half-day interactive history workshop, the Impact program is developed in consultation with Aboriginal communities and elders and delivered as a component of First Nations-led cultural capability programs. Impact is designed to assist South Australians understand the ongoing consequences of colonisation for First Nations people, communities and cultures.

Participants are encouraged to reflect on different perspectives and ways of learning, to engage with difficult ideas and material, and come away reflecting on our shared past and future. Often this program is the first time people have encountered what can, at times, be confronting information: “Very insightful, I now have a different perspective on past events” (SAPOL Cadet). Recent highlights include delivering to the entire Adelaide Football Club Players Group; working with Tjindu Foundation’s young Aboriginal members, participating in the Department for Child Protection’s Cultural Footprint review, and continuing to work in partnership with the RAA.  

Our Impact Program Team

For further information and pricing please contact bpannell@history.sa.gov.au

Header Image: ‘View of Adelaide from the Hills’, 1838 by John Michael Skipper, Art Gallery of South Australia