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From Yarning Circles to Strategy Rooms

Blak Ignited supports those ready to embed cultural truth, safety, and leadership at every level - from the classroom to the boardroom.

Our work is guided by story, built on trust, and grounded in Indigenous wisdom. Every offering is tailored to the people we walk beside, because real change happens through relationships, not templates.

What We Do

Blak Ignited offers a deeply relational approach to professional learning, cultural strategy, and leadership support. Centring people, story, and place. We hold space and grow with you - grounded in trust, guided by Indigenous ways of knowing, and shaped by where you are and where you're ready to go.

Whether you’re a school weaving Indigenous perspectives into every classroom, a community cultivating deep cultural safety, or an organisation ready to move from symbolic gestures to structural change — we meet you there.

We walk beside you, shifting from awareness to action, from intention to impact.

This isn’t consultancy as usual.
It’s a commitment to doing the real work, together.

Our Workshops

Blak Ignited delivers workshops that go beyond information-sharing to create meaningful, lasting change. Each workshop is designed to support individuals, teams, and organisations to deepen cultural intelligence, strengthen relational practice, and move intention into action.

There is no “off-the-shelf” approach to this work.

All Blak Ignited workshops are custom-built to respond to your context, priorities, and people. As part of our relational approach, a Blak Ignited team member connects with you prior to delivery to understand your environment, goals, challenges, and readiness. This step is not optional — contextualisation is a necessary element for success, not an added extra.  We know that one size never fits all!

Workshops can be delivered in a range of formats and durations, including:

• 1-hour or 2-hour sessions
• Half-day or full-day workshops
• Multi-day programs and learning journeys



This flexibility allows learning to be shaped around your timeframe while maintaining depth, integrity, and cultural safety.

Whether working with educators, leaders, teams, or community-based organisations, Blak Ignited workshops are grounded in Indigenous ways of being, thinking, and doing, and supported by practical tools, reflection, and real-world application. The focus is always on building capability that can be carried forward — not one-off moments, but sustainable change.

Cultural Intelligence Education

This powerful 5 workshop series supports individuals and leaders to deepen their understanding of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and its practical application in schools and workplaces. Through reflective workshops, real-world scenarios, and Indigenous-led insights, participants explore how to navigate cultural complexity with humility, empathy, and accountability. The series builds the confidence and capability needed to embed Indigenous perspectives meaningfully, foster inclusive relationships, and create culturally safe learning and leadership environments.  Each participants is provided with their own individual digital booklet to keep the learning alive beyond workshops.

Module 1: Pathways to Belonging

Module 2: Elevate Your Leadership Through Indigenous Ways

Module 3: Bridging Hearts & Culture - Connecting Emotional Intelligence & Cultural Intelligence

Module 4: Cultivating Inclusive Environments

Module 5: Allyship - Transformational Connections

Allyship: Walking Together

This session explores Allyship not as a title, but as a practice — one that can be cultivated, modelled, and taught across generations. “The Work of Walking Together” invites participants to shift from performative support to relational leadership, understanding that allyship is not a destination but a way of being.



Through storytelling, reflection, and grounded frameworks, participants will:

• Understand the types of allyship(performative, transactional, transformative, and relational).
• Explore how allyship intersects with leadership — in words, actions, and systems.
• Learn how allyship behaviours can be taught, modelled, and measured in early learning centres, schools, workplaces, and communities.
• Reflect on what it means to walk together — to move beyond comfort, into courage.

What You Didn’t Consider: Seeing the Blind Spots That Shape Cultural Safety

Most harm in organisations and teams doesn’t come from ill intent. It comes from what goes unseen. What You Didn’t Consider is a powerful, thought-provoking workshop that uses the What You Didn’t Consider cultural safety card deck as a practical stimulus to surface the blind spots Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples navigate every day — often quietly, often repeatedly.

These blind spots show up as microaggressions, assumptions, cultural dismissal, identity policing, tokenism, slow or absent responses, and systems that unintentionally prioritise comfort over care. While often unspoken, their impact is real — eroding trust, safety, and a genuine sense of belonging for Indigenous students, families, and staff.

This is a practical, relational session that supports participants to:

• recognise how cultural blind spots operate in everyday decisions and interactions
• unpack the impact of “small” actions and silences
• deepen cultural understanding beyond awareness
• practise courageous, respectful conversations that build trust rather than defensiveness

Beyond the Content: Embedding Indigenous Ways



In education, everything we do shapes the world our children grow into. This workshop invites educators to move beyond simply “adding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content” and instead embrace Indigenous Ways of Being, Thinking, and Doing as everyday practice.

Together, we’ll explore the 8 Ways of Learning, share stories through the Animal Teachings and Old Ways, New Ways cards, and simple, meaningful approaches that nurture belonging, relational play, deep listening, and connection to Country.

This is not about knowing all the answers — it’s about slowing down, noticing more, and walking with our children in good spirit.

You’ll leave with practical ideas, reflective tools, and renewed confidence to support children’s cultural identity, curiosity, and wellbeing — in ways that honour both Country and community.

Personal Governance Modules

Personal governance is your inner compass. It helps you make decisions, manage your energy, stay true to your values, and walk with purpose.  This course provides leaders with the gaps that most courses don’t extend to.  The learnings we often come to, usually when a catalytic event has occurred.  Each module guides participants through an Indigenous lens of what leaders need to thrive in an ever changing world. Based on the learnings of Dharug people, this course connects with Gumadagu Gurang, ‘ place of the Ancestors’ (the Seven Sisters), reminds us we’re part of something bigger. Our knowing lives inside us. Each module representative of each star in the Seven Sisters constellation.

Personal governance is how we honour relationships, reciprocity, and responsibility. It’s how we lead ourselves with care — for now, for others, and for what comes next.

Module 1: Identity - Who I think I am

Module 2: Deep Listening & Decision Making - What I believe I can do

Module 3: Deep Time - What I draw strength from

Module 4: Responsibility (beyond self) - What I believe I am responsible for

Module 5: Embodied Practice - What I choose to listen to

Module 6: Boundaries - Where I choose to stop

Module 7: Inner Sovereignty - What I believe I deserve

What Stories Are Shaping the Way You Lead, Teach, and Live?

Every system we move through — education, leadership, workplaces, families — carries a story. Some of those stories are inherited. Some are imposed. Many are so normalised we stop seeing them altogether.

This workshop invites leaders into a deeper, more conscious conversation about the systems that shape our daily decisions — and the Indigenous Ways of Being, Thinking, and Doing that offer a powerful counter-narrative.

Using the Our Systems, Our Stories reflective card deck, we will gently but boldly surface the dominant conditioningwe’ve been taught to comply with — urgency, hierarchy, extraction, compliance, individualism — and place them alongside Indigenous-informed ways grounded in relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, care, and collective wellbeing.

This is not a history lesson. It’s a workshop is about re-patterning.

Ongoing Cultural Partnerships

Transformation isn’t a one-time event. Our flexible, subscription-based model gives you access to the right support at the right time - delivered in rhythm with your calendar, your context, and your goals.

We work relationally, not transactionally. This is long-term capacity building, built on trust.

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