VAHENonline

The Victorian Aboriginal Education Network Online (VAHENonline) exists for health academics working in tertiary education. A vibrant platform, VAHENonline encourages and supports collaboration between health academics and disciplines across universities.

VAHENonline addresses absent, inadequate and/or racist curriculum content about First Nations people in tertiary health courses. VAHENonline contributors have consistently challenged the conventional boundaries of tertiary education systems by breaking down silos between universities and health disciplines.

Our approach has called for contributors to develop their critical consciousness and is a place for people to vulnerably share their thoughts and experiences regarding the process of decolonising health curricula.

Activities in our VAHENonline space include:

A monthly online Community of Practice
Delivering lectures and reviewing curricula/assessments
Cultural safety and critical consciousness workshops for students, faculty staff and Academics

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VAHENonline Reflections

“We have found the VAHENonline platform to be a supportive and encouraging forum for academics to engage with essential, but historically uncomfortable, topics”

Human Nutrition and Dietetics Academic

“The challenges we have in higher education may at times be confronting, but my resolve to be part of change is strengthened by participation in the group”

Occupational Therapy Academic

“VAHENonline has given me the opportunity to learn from others, but also to contribute to the discourse as part of my own ongoing education”

Social Work Academic

“A space that enabled me to feel safe enough to become aware of and share … some of the uncomfortable feelings and messy thoughts that come up for me”

Speech Pathology Academic

Weenthunga honours the Sovereign Owners on whose Country we do business. We thank you for warmly Welcoming us with generosity, kindness and care.

We pay our deepest respect to Ancestors and Elders, who have nourished and loved Country since Creation.

To all First Nations people visiting our website, we acknowledge you, and your Ancestors, Elders, family and community.

We express our heartfelt gratitude to all that’s an interconnected part of Country: land, waters, sky, stars, plants, trees, animals, birds and kin. All of these have spirit, stories and a role in our health and wellbeing, as we do theirs.