JAJIRDI is the Warlpiri word for Native Cat or Western Quoll, a small carnivorous marsupial that used to range across all of Australia’s Central and Western arid regions but now survives only in the South West. It is a totem of the Jungarrayi/Nungarrayi and Japaljarri/Napaljarri skin groups. It’s Dreaming Track, uniting the countries of the Luritja, Western Arrernte, Warlpiri and Anmatyerre, is part of the great web of paths of the Creation Ancestors criss-crossing the desert giving spiritual meaning to the landscape, explaining its creation and the origins of Aboriginal Law. Jajirdi is Bess and Dave Price:

What Jajirdi Offers:

• Cross cultural training
  • Half day, one day and two day courses on Cross Cultural Communication and the Cultures and Languages of Central Australia designed specifically to address our client’s needs
  • A two day Cross Cultural Workshop developed by Cross Cultural Consultants of Darwin

• Warlpiri language services - teaching, translating and interpreting

• Educational research

• Community liaison and advice on Cross Cultural communication and management

Our standard fee for a training course is $1,800 a day, plus expenses. This price includes a booklet of notes and certificate of completion for each participant. Other fees are subject to negotiation depending the nature and amount of work. The standard fee is subject to change without notice.

Bess Nungarrayi Price was born at Yuendumu. Her first language is Warlpiri. She also knows Luritja and Western Arrernte. Bess has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Aboriginal Community Management and Development from Curtin University and has worked in education and training, public administration, the media, community development, interpreting, translating and language teaching and has experience in small business management. She has represented Central Australia at conferences in Québec and Beijing. The Jajirdi Dreaming belongs to Bess, her brothers and sisters, fathers and aunts.

Dave Price has worked in Aboriginal education and training and public administration in the NT, the Kimberley and South Australia for over twenty years. He has qualifications in secondary and special education and a Master of Letters in Linguistics from UNE. His eight and a half years of teaching experience includes over seven years in remote Aboriginal communities. He also has substantial experience delivering training in the Public Service and has taught courses in Warlpiri language and culture and lectured to visitors to the Centre on Aboriginal issues for several years. Dave and Bess have been married for twenty years.

What Jajirdi stands for:

We are Centralians firmly committed to the harmonious development of the Region. We recognise and respect the variety of cultures represented in Central Australia. The economic and social future of our community depends on the ability of everybody involved to better communicate and work co-operatively towards shared goals. Our aim is to offer practical training and advice to both Aboriginal communities and those who work with them to assist in this process. Working in a cross-cultural environment is difficult, complex and always controversial. Jajirdi aims to give its clients the knowledge, skills and confidence to do a better job in this challenging environment.

Our clients have included the Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink, Alice Springs Town Council, Kinhill Engineers, Otter Gold, Aberfoyle Resources, Normandy NFM, Shepparton Transit, the Departments of Transport and Works, Housing and Local Government, and Education, the Power and Water Authority, NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, NT Employment and Training Authority, Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, The Central Land Council, Centralian College, St. Philip’s College, Yirara College of the FRM and OMIA Educational Consultants.

For further information please contact Dave or Bess Price:

ph (08) 89 528 430

e-mail:
piiji@bigpond.net.au

128 Kurrajong Dr. Alice Springs, NT 0870

Jajirdi Cross Cultural Consultants
www.jajirdi.com.au