Needed that. How beautiful. I’m hosting a fundraising event today and I’m now more relaxed about the acknowledgment and thanks because it’ll come from my heart.
We should not feel ashamed for living in Australia. As Australian's this is our country and our ancestors have worked hard to create a place that is one of the best places in the world. I'm proud to be Australian.
Fantastic Shelley, thank you for making this video and sharing. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where I film my RUclips videos and do my best to make it heart felt and respectful, but I think I will make it more personal now.
Thank you Shelley for helping make the acknowledgement a more meaningful sentiment. I found your delivery beautiful, really friendly, and believe I have a new confidence. I particularly liked the permission to link ourselves (and our children) in a respectful way to the story of time.
Thank you Shelley for giving me clarity and helping me to understand my mixed reactions to the delivery of Acknowledgement to Country. I intend to pass the link to your TEDx Talk onto friends and colleagues. I too will make my delivery my own, personal and meaningful.
Kia ora Shelley, thank you so much for teaching me how to acknowledge the traditional owners of these lands we now call Sydney in a meaningful and purposeful way. I learnt so much watching this video. Nga mihi. Thank you. I’ve never seen anything like this Welcome to Country and it is very special and motivating.
I absolutely loved this meaningful acknowledgment this has taught me to be confident to make acknowledgment to country my own …personal. Thank you I showed my 6 year old daughter this video too.
As a Cultural Capability facilitator my self, i have been sharing this video to my clients lately, particularly for its practical, respectful and thoughful application. It builds context, therefore building confidence and capailities for those who are entrusted or sometimes thrusted with the duty. Thanks Shelley !
Are you aware that any dingo invented the welcome to country speech in the 70s the traditional ceremony was simply wiping armpit sweat on each other I wonder if you're aware of that
Loved this, and how appropriate for Australia Day! Also found the map at 3:01 (and the comment about there being many more communities than shown on it) very educational. Great visuals, and comparison with Europe. Nice job!
Really apprecaite this. I am writing my first land acknowedgement and a very good friend told me to get out of my head, and write from my heart. This Ted Talk just solidified this advise and I really appreciate it.
I have watched this 5 times over. You are so inspiring. I am working on an Innovate RAP and I will be sharing your video with the team, and wider. Can I please ask, as I get asked this alot, if there are monthly meetings held virtually across the state, how can those Executives stop sounding boring in their Acknowledgement as the same one is spoken every month.
What is not said in most of the comments is that a good portion of Australia's population sees this as useless virtue signalling. All Australians should welcome all people regardless of their background or ancestry. Moreover, the idea of paying tribute to custodians of the sky, land and water smacks of new age nonsense. In addition it gives no acknowledgement of European enlightenment, British traditions (separation of powers, institutions, the rule of law etc etc) for which we should be eternally grateful. It's telling that Australians voted overwhelming NO in a 2023 referendum to create what was essentially a 4th branch of government based on ancestry / skin colour or both. If a referendum were held on this topic then I would expect similar results.
When we acknowledge the past, how far do we have to go back tho? Also what if the people of the past hated and killed each other for the land, do we acknowledge the victims or the victor tribes? Also if the tribe was an oppressor in the past, do we condemn or acknowledge and condemn them?
Im not Indigenous. In my RUclips channel I introduce my videos with an acknowledgment of country as a sign of respect and reconciliation. I’ve received negative comments, not on the content, but on the fact I recognise the Traditional Custodians of the land I work on! Sad and infuriating at the same time.
Sorry I disagree. I’m fine with a welcome to country when appropriate (opening a new facility etc) but acknowledgements are a waste of time and disingenuous. Having to sit thru 114 acknowledgements in 2 days at a conference was the straw that broke the camels back. It is my country just as much as any one else’s. If not where is my country and who acknowledges my ancestors existence?
So we're up to 70,000 years now. That figure just keeps growing, like a fisherman's story. Good thing it doesn't actually mean anything, otherwise someone might ask you to prove it.
Here it is: Welcome to my country. I'd like to acknowledge the early pioneers who came to this country over two hundred years ago and developed an almost uninhabitable land by establishing farms, roads, schools, hospitals, towns and cities, railways, ports and harbours, universities, health clinics, telecommunications, factories and industries, warm (or cool) comfortable homes, shopping centres, a reliable abundant food supply, libraries, clean water, electricity and gas, airlines, the mining industry ... the list goes on. Welcome to my country. The copyright of the above 'Welcome ...' belongs to me. Certain members of the community will allowed to use it at a fee of $5,000. White-fellas may use it for free.
Needed that. How beautiful. I’m hosting a fundraising event today and I’m now more relaxed about the acknowledgment and thanks because it’ll come from my heart.
We should not feel ashamed for living in Australia. As Australian's this is our country and our ancestors have worked hard to create a place that is one of the best places in the world. I'm proud to be Australian.
Deadly Shelley so true and thank you. love hearts forever!!!
Fantastic Shelley, thank you for making this video and sharing. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where I film my RUclips videos and do my best to make it heart felt and respectful, but I think I will make it more personal now.
I like that you changed the word from “owner” to “custodian”
I know you don’t see the immense irony but, hey, that’s ignorance for you
Nice one Shelley, making things easier and more meaningful at the same time
Thank you Shelley for helping make the acknowledgement a more meaningful sentiment. I found your delivery beautiful, really friendly, and believe I have a new confidence. I particularly liked the permission to link ourselves (and our children) in a respectful way to the story of time.
"When it is personal, it is meaningful" - beautifully said. Thank you
Thank you Shelley for giving me clarity and helping me to understand my mixed reactions to the delivery of Acknowledgement to Country.
I intend to pass the link to your TEDx Talk onto friends and colleagues.
I too will make my delivery my own, personal and meaningful.
Love this! So educational and very inspiring. Thank you!
Kia ora Shelley, thank you so much for teaching me how to acknowledge the traditional owners of these lands we now call Sydney in a meaningful and purposeful way. I learnt so much watching this video. Nga mihi. Thank you. I’ve never seen anything like this Welcome to Country and it is very special and motivating.
I absolutely loved this meaningful acknowledgment this has taught me to be confident to make acknowledgment to country my own …personal. Thank you I showed my 6 year old daughter this video too.
As a Cultural Capability facilitator my self, i have been sharing this video to my clients lately, particularly for its practical, respectful and thoughful application. It builds context, therefore building confidence and capailities for those who are entrusted or sometimes thrusted with the duty. Thanks Shelley !
Are you aware that any dingo invented the welcome to country speech in the 70s the traditional ceremony was simply wiping armpit sweat on each other I wonder if you're aware of that
'capailities'?
Thank you Shelley, genuine, patient, educational.
Loved this, and how appropriate for Australia Day! Also found the map at 3:01 (and the comment about there being many more communities than shown on it) very educational. Great visuals, and comparison with Europe. Nice job!
This was really informative and helpful - thank you!
Really apprecaite this. I am writing my first land acknowedgement and a very good friend told me to get out of my head, and write from my heart. This Ted Talk just solidified this advise and I really appreciate it.
Thank you Shelley, food for thought! :)
I have watched this 5 times over. You are so inspiring. I am working on an Innovate RAP and I will be sharing your video with the team, and wider. Can I please ask, as I get asked this alot, if there are monthly meetings held virtually across the state, how can those Executives stop sounding boring in their Acknowledgement as the same one is spoken every month.
Did you know that the welcome to country speech was invented by Ernie dingo the traditional ceremony was about wiping armpit sweat on each other
Fantastic topic I live in Newcastle
What is not said in most of the comments is that a good portion of Australia's population sees this as useless virtue signalling. All Australians should welcome all people regardless of their background or ancestry. Moreover, the idea of paying tribute to custodians of the sky, land and water smacks of new age nonsense. In addition it gives no acknowledgement of European enlightenment, British traditions (separation of powers, institutions, the rule of law etc etc) for which we should be eternally grateful.
It's telling that Australians voted overwhelming NO in a 2023 referendum to create what was essentially a 4th branch of government based on ancestry / skin colour or both. If a referendum were held on this topic then I would expect similar results.
straight up!
When we acknowledge the past, how far do we have to go back tho? Also what if the people of the past hated and killed each other for the land, do we acknowledge the victims or the victor tribes? Also if the tribe was an oppressor in the past, do we condemn or acknowledge and condemn them?
Im not Indigenous. In my RUclips channel I introduce my videos with an acknowledgment of country as a sign of respect and reconciliation. I’ve received negative comments, not on the content, but on the fact I recognise the Traditional Custodians of the land I work on! Sad and infuriating at the same time.
There are no eggshells if you have a mind. Yindyamarra.
My great great great grandfather arrived in Australia in 1805 so to the majority of Australians “welcome to my country’
Surprise! The majority of Australians don't need to be welcomed to your country as it's their country as well.
@@echelon2k8 That is his point.
welcome to my country, only landlords have a right to say this. People who rent have no country.
Sorry I disagree.
I’m fine with a welcome to country when appropriate (opening a new facility etc) but acknowledgements are a waste of time and disingenuous.
Having to sit thru 114 acknowledgements in 2 days at a conference was the straw that broke the camels back.
It is my country just as much as any one else’s.
If not where is my country and who acknowledges my ancestors existence?
Thomas Patricia Davis Ronald Jackson Dorothy
So we're up to 70,000 years now. That figure just keeps growing, like a fisherman's story.
Good thing it doesn't actually mean anything, otherwise someone might ask you to prove it.
You’re missing the point.
These comments make me sick
Its in English for one the very colonising language that was beaten into indigenous People.
Very poor explanation of Welcome to Country supposedly from a person that delivers cultural competency training to big corporates.
Why acknowledge country anyway? We all live here. No one thanked me for paying my taxes for the past 30 years.
Cos the land was stolen from Aboriginal people over 200 years ago
Because it always was and always will be Aboriginal land 😊
Now you'll have to pay your rent for Aboriginal land..
Educate yourself on the matter and you might change your mind. I hope.
Because genocide.
Just like money has no owners, either does land. There is only the conquerors and the conquered.
You can force me to say it but you can't force me to mean it.
who's forcing you to say it?
Hopefully this will disappear into the Dustbin of History where it belongs.
I didn't do that!! Not my fault. Nobody said it was you. But that 40 000 acres was never yours. Read a book and leave the pub.
Saying acknowledgement means we agree that being citizen of this country we are still foreigner..
Literally how
nope...
Here it is:
Welcome to my country. I'd like to acknowledge the early pioneers who came to this country over two hundred years ago and developed an almost uninhabitable land by establishing farms, roads, schools, hospitals, towns and cities, railways, ports and harbours, universities, health clinics, telecommunications, factories and industries, warm (or cool) comfortable homes, shopping centres, a reliable abundant food supply, libraries, clean water, electricity and gas, airlines, the mining industry ... the list goes on. Welcome to my country.
The copyright of the above 'Welcome ...' belongs to me. Certain members of the community will allowed to use it at a fee of $5,000. White-fellas may use it for free.
I acknowledge the elders by voting no