As part of the Every Week Counts National Preterm Birth Prevention Program, WHA and CATSINaM will host a Yarning Circle at our National Conference to hear directly from our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander midwifery delegates and CATSINaM members who are interested in preterm birth prevention. These conversations will support First Nations leadership and engagement in the Program, helping to reflect and inform program activities and measures to reduce preterm and early-term births for Aboriginal and Torres

The Cultural Safety Conversation Session is designed to build on learnings from Murra Mullangari Cultural Safety Learning Program, and will challenge participants to move beyond understanding cultural safety to examine culturally unsafe practices. Through interactive discussion and critical reflection, participants will explore the role of power, coloniality and relational accountability across clinical, educational, organisational and structural contexts. Participants will develop practical actions to inform their influence and a renewed commitment to cultural safety as an ongoing practice of courageous leadership and system transformation.