Training Services

Palms Australia can assist you or your organisation in any stage of your cross-cultural work. Palms has extensive experience in cross-cultural preparation and development education. Through our networks, we provide a variety of practical and educational programs for businesses, schools, families and other organisations in areas including:

  • Moving towards solidarity
  • Cross-cultural preparation
  • Personal growth and Conflict Resolution
  • Justice, Ecology and Peace
  • Cultural re-entry debriefings
  • Culture and Sub-cultures
  • Cross-cultural field trips
  • Mission and Development

Volunteers, employees and those preparing for a cross-cultural mission with other organisations are also welcome at our Orientation Course and Re-entry Workshops. Recent attendees at Palms' courses and workshops have included volunteers and employees from organisations including:

  • Connect East Timor;
  • Marist Asia Pacific Solidarity;
  • Friends and Partners with East Timor;
  • APPEC (Asia Pacific People for Environment and Community);
  • Dominican Sisters;
  • The Timor -Leste Ministry for Transport and Communications;
  • Parramatta Catholic Education Office;
  • Presbyterian Ladies College, Croydon;
  • Australian Volunteers International;
  • Edmund Rice Centre;
  • Southern Cross College;
  • OLSH Sisters;
  • Mary Ward International;
  • Edmund Rice Volunteers;
  • St Vincent's College, Potts Point
  • Jesuit Mission;
  • Columban Mission Society;
  • Townsville Catholic Education Office;
  • Christian Brothers;
  • Kedron-Balibo Friendship Group;
  • Youth Challenge Australia;

For more information or to arrange a briefing for yourself or your staff contact Palms Australia via email or phone (02) 9518 9551.

 

 

Our Mission is...

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1. To build the capacity of individuals and strengthen institutions through the exchange of knowledge and skills between Palms Australia's global volunteers and partner communities.

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Cross-cultural courses

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Places are now available at Palms Australia's 91st Orientation Course and Encounter Preparation Program to be held in Mittagong in July 2010.

Contact Palms Australia to attend.

 
 

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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. - Muhammad Yunus