Experience an inspiring professional learning journey in the heart of Australia’s Red Centre, where remarkable landscapes, living culture and strong community connections create powerful opportunities for growth.
Spend meaningful time On-Country at Atnarpa Homestead with Mbantua (Mpartnwe) and Arrernte Traditional Owners and native title holders, gaining insight into Indigenous knowledge systems and place-based education. Explore Uluru and Kata Tjuta on guided hikes that reveal ancient geology and cultural significance, encouraging reflective practice and new approaches to teaching and learning.
Investigate the desert’s distinctive ecosystem, observing flora and fauna unique to this region while deepening your understanding of Country as classroom. Camp beneath clear night skies, share Creation stories around the fire, and reimagine how culture, environment and education can shape professional practice.
why you’ll love this trip
- Engage with local Dreaming stories and explore how traditional knowledge can inform curriculum design and classroom practice
- Participate in an overnight On-Country camp to experience place-based learning beneath a star-filled sky
- Examine community-led programs that support vulnerable youth and reflect on strategies to apply these insights in your own educational setting
- Investigate the geologically unique and culturally significant landscapes of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to inspire cross-curricular teaching and deeper cultural understanding
Touch down in Alice Springs and meet your Infuse leaders. We'll kick off with a group photo
at the iconic "Welcome to Alice Springs" sign, capturing the start of our adventure. Next, we head to ANZAC Hill where you’ll be met by members of the Bloomfield family. They will Welcome you to Mparntwe, a demonstration of their connection to Country. Our adventure starts by embarking on an enchanting journey to our On-Country experience on Atnartpa Homestead. We will drive approximately two hours to our hosts, the Arrernte and Mpartnwe (Mbantua) people, where we will be living and looking through the lens of navigating life between traditional and contemporary practices as a Traditional Owner in today’s world. Camp under the stars tonight On-Country.
Overnight: Overnight: On Country Atnartpa HomesteadDuring the next few days, you will witness first-hand intergenerational transfer of traditional knowledge as our time On-Country is largely unscripted; this provides space for the experience to be as organic as possible and based on community needs at the time. An afternoon will be spent with Oonchiumpa Consultancy and Services, where the local Aboriginal Traditional Owners are committed to working with vulnerable youth through a range of hands-on, culturally safe and community based activities.
Overnight: On-Country Atnartpa Homestead, Alice Springs Discovery ParkAfter an amazing On-Country opportunity, we will make an early start this morning to head towards Yulara, where the incredible Uluru awaits.
After getting settled, we'll head to the sunset viewing area to watch the sunset on Uluru and bask in the renowned Field of Lights.
Overnight: Alice Springs Discovery ParkFor our last full day in Central Australia, we will immerse ourselves in the wonders of Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park with several short hikes between the domes of this iconic rock formation.
Visit the Cultural Centre to learn more about Anangu Culture, and then meet a local guide this afternoon and walk around the base of Uluru.
Overnight: Ayers Rock CampgroundOn our last morning in Central Australia, you will have the opportunity to do some last minute sightseeing and souvenir purchasing in the Ayers Rock town centre, before farewelling your fellow educators and making time to continue this work back in the classroom!
Overnight: In your own bed :)
