Background to CSCPL Projects

Using the Walk Together design CSCPL has facilitated local communities and their members to take authority and responsibility for improving their quality of life.

Our emphasis over the past decade has been to focus on increasing Indigenous authority and responsibility. Government policies combined with natural evolution has led to many Aboriginal language groups either struggling to retain their identities, language and culture or else losing them totally. The process of assimilation, even while it is no longer government policy, is alive and well as religious, educational, economic and legal processes tend to take Aboriginal people away from their ways of knowing and doing and start using Western ways.

CSCPL has no argument with Aboriginal people choosing to live a Western lifestyle, as long as it is a choice they make of their free will. In all sites where we have worked, whether remote, rural or urban, we have yet to hear members of an Aboriginal group wanting to give up its identity and culture.

The Walk Together design allows for the retention of identity, language and culture which can be adapted to accommodate values from a different culture for specific purposes. At the same time, it is incumbent on the different culture to adapt its values to accommodate values underpinning the Aboriginal community. The concept of employment is one that springs readily to mind, as are the operations of schooling in remote communities.

If you would like to see extended examples of work we have done, return to the Home Page, click on the heading of Projects, and then on the heading of Outcomes using the Walk Together Design.