Through his successful business Yarn Bark, which he has been running for about five years now, Will Austin shares his culture with the wider community through workshops at schools and businesses.

"The workshops include immersive activities that allow people to connect to what our culture is all about," he said.

Through his cultural immersion workshops he facilitates opportunities for everyone to connect to Aboriginal culture and ways of life and shares skills, such as how to create traditional artefacts. He also conducts cultural mentoring.

Next week, for the first time, he will conduct two workshops in the Daylesford area - where he grew up.

The first will be for young people and the second for adults, with both involving education about the process of creating traditional artefacts.

"It's about the process - that's the important part. Connecting to country, to self and others in a really authentic and meaningful way," he said.

The process of creating artefacts begins when he ventures out on country and selects the right pieces of wood to use.

"I will share my knowledge on what trees are used and what we look for before we chop down trees used for artefacts.

"It's the first step of the process of connecting, acknowledging and looking after country in terms of sustainability. Not just chopping down any tree we want for craft but thinking and listening deeply and only taking what we need.

"This is really important because we are seeing fake pieces of craft produced in mass volumes overseas and shipped into souvenir shops and advertised as authentic, but they don't carry the cultural significance and authenticity of artefacts handcrafted by Aboriginal people and through that special process."

Through the workshops participants will learn how to create artefacts such as clap sticks, traditional clubs and digging sticks.

While the creation of these is at the core of the workshops, he said threading a narrative, sparking conversations and sharing stories were also integral parts of the process.

"It is just as much about getting people together as it is about creating artefacts," he said.

The workshops will be hosted in line with this year's NAIDOC theme, 'Heal Country'.

"We will explore what that means in a deeper context and how all people can connect to that theme and how everyone has a responsibility to heal and look after country," Mr Austin said.

"Healing country means healing ourselves. Our belief is that those two things go hand in hand. We can't heal people if we can't heal the land first, so we will explore that at a different level."

The first workshop is being supported by Daylesford Community Op Shop and Hepburn Region Blue Light, while the second is being supported by Hepburn Shire Council.

Several years ago Michelle Clifford and the Daylesford Community Op Shop gave him a grant to purchase the equipment he needed to begin hosting his workshops and he said the support had continued in the years since.

"I have a mixed experience of growing up as an Aboriginal person in Daylesford. All my childhood memories are there, but as a young person I didn't get all the opportunities to support my personal growth and development throughout my teenage years.

"So being able to bring my knowledge both in cultural education and working with young people in general in the community through these programs is really special. But it doesn't happen without champions like Michelle."

Matthew Flood, the former Sergeant at Daylesford Police Station who has now moved on to a new role in the force, is still involved with young people in the shire through the Blue Light program.

Daylesford Blue Light recently changed its name to Hepburn Region Blue Light in an effort to support youth right across the shire.

While a diversion from what Blue Light is traditionally about, he said the workshops supported the action to remove barriers between police and young people.

Police members from across the shire will attend the workshops to introduce themselves to young people.

He said teaching both young people and adults about Indigenous culture and history was important.

"It is the longest continuing culture in the world and any opportunity we have to learn about that is really positive."

NAIDOC weeks runs from July 4 - 11.

To sign up for either workshop search 'Yarn Bark' on Try Booking.