This work shares the story of Nambi Managers Forum. The Forum was named Nambi (Worimi Aboriginal Language) translating to “a clever place or learning place”. Permission was gained from a W1orimi Traditional Landowner for this auspicious learning occasion for Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Services (AMIHS) / Building Strong Foundations for Aboriginal Children, Families and Communities Program (BSF) Managers, ensuring that: Aboriginal cultural protocols were respected and abided by.

The meeting place symbols across the artwork represent Aboriginal collective learning practices that build respectful relationships, preserves and passes on old and newly-formed cultural knowledge. They symbolise the importance of a culturally safe place that reflects our communities identity, culture, family, birthing and knowledge systems.

The journey or travel lines connecting to the meeting place symbols represent the learning journeys, where reciprocal learning takes place. Where all learners pass on new knowledge on to other people as the power of the knowledge is to be shared.

The surrounding patterns above and below represent Country and our waterways. The scattering of meeting place symbols throughout represent our families and communities who hold knowledge and practices that have been passed on through generations since before time. Our Dreamings, Songlines, Lore, languages, birthing and medicine knowledge have been passed down for thousands of years - the oldest education system in the world.