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About NICCAS

NICCAS Cultural Infusion Services is a 100% First Nations owned and operated business. We are in the business of supporting our customers by offering to share our cultural knowledge, expertise and wisdom.

AIM

NICCAS Cultural Infusion Services aim is to become dispensable because the ‘proper way’ of doing business with First Nations people’s is respected, understood and infused into everyday practice. 

 

We take a strength-based approach to assess the spiritual healing needs of the customer, to revitalise the energy required in reforming ways of knowing, doing and being. Our process feels organic and will assist our customers to identify the internal self-care and wellbeing required to make them feel whole again.

 

We do this by talking a narrative approach in driving change with individuals and/or organisations, evolving their cultural capabilities. Our potion-making technique infuses traditional First Nations cultural wisdom or practices into the present-day corporate world settings. The ingredients of the potion to be infused, guided by the spiritual healing needs of the First Nations peoples to feel culturally safe and included. 

 

NICCAS Cultural Infusion Services previously traded as Nicole Cassar; Nicole is the Managing Director and owner of the business.

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OUR PEOPLE

Ngata, ngathoo-ngat leenyoong Nicole Cassar

(Hello, my name is)

I am a woman, of Gunditjmara, Wotjobaluk and Maltese descent; Victorian born and bred. 

 

My professional experience has been in Aboriginal affairs for almost 30 years, some work explicit to Victorian projects, though have contributed to a variety of national projects; with 17 years management experience, a clinical background in child, adolescent and family mental health, and over 20 years-experience providing cultural wellbeing supports and cultural supervision.

 

In June, 2017, I entered self-employment, undertaking the role as an Aboriginal Consultant, working both independently and with teams, on a variety of projects across a variety of sectors, many projects requiring community consultations to be facilitated. I understand my cultural role and responsibility involves working with narratives and see storytelling as a critical method for healing to occur; this is done by supporting narratives to be shared, heard and re-written. My role as a consultant has allowed me the privilege of hearing many of my people’s struggles, strength and resilience, but most importantly hearing and feeling their sense of pride shared in knowing who they are and where they have come from, even if unsure where they are heading.

 

NICCAS Cultural Infusion Services engages the services if other First Nations consultants as required.

OUR PRINCIPLES

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Country

Our knowing, doing and being is guided by the philosophy of ‘Country is, therefore, I am’, meaning we are children of Mother Earth and the relationship with the land is a critical for spiritual healing and in enhancing the presence of First Nations design and architecture in everyday living.

 

Cultural Integrity

We honour all cultural protocols and respect ownership and intellectual property of all cultural materials, traditions, and knowledges that originate from work undertaken by NICCAS with First Nations people’s or communities, which remains property of First Nations people’s or communities it was obtained from. 

 

Cultural Humility

We will take care and respect privacy when given the privilege to hear First Nations narratives and ensure a true account of their voice is promoted in collating their unique story to be reciprocated through a collective narrative, without prejudice.

 

Cultural Authority

NICCAS business engagements thrive on the word of mouth of First Nations Community, extending across multiple industries. The multi-faceted knowledge built from the range of engagements and community consultations, positions NICCAS to be a keeper of wide-ranging cultural knowledge, organically creating a position cultural authority, in the currency of the information we hold, as recognised by and in the First Nations communities. 

 

Reciprocity

We see storytelling as a core part of how we do business and NICCAS facilitates narratives to be shared in order to unlearn old ways of knowing, doing and being in order to make room and be open to learning new ways to develop cultural capability in finding a shared understanding and purpose.  

 

Alchemy

NICCAS believes we can brew potions that create the magical powers to transform things for the better, real or imagined; applying an alchemist’s logic way of thinking.

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