Workshops & Training Programs
We design and deliver custom training programs from an anti-oppressive lens.
Our training programs use strength-based and peer-to-peer learning frameworks, and develop understanding through group activities and facilitated conversations. We make this learning interactive, nuanced and fun, catering to a range of learning styles, knowledge levels, and personality types.
All of our training programs are built with an anti-oppressive lens, building nuanced understanding of how every topic fits within systems, and the context we’re in.
All our programs can be delivered face to face and online. We also create video content and even design & deliver e-learning modules!
Are you interested in customised or tailored training? Get in touch with us.
600+ workshops delivered
100+ organisations partnered
9000+ staff trained
Anti-Racism Workshops
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This workshop is designed to develop literacy, empathy, and understanding of race-related issues and identities, and improve safety and support for people of colour in your organisation, movement or place of work. It is appropriate for a range of knowledge levels and experiences, and creates a safe environment for real conversations about race and racism.
This module is a pre-requisite to our other workshop programs.
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This workshop converts your newly developed understanding of race and racism into practical skills that can be applied to your specific workplace setting. Using a combination of group work, role play, and personal reflection, this workshop develops capacity for solidarity, accountability and empowered change. The session is strengths-based, future oriented, and focused on skills and strategies, to turn the talk into action.
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This workshop series is delivered across three 2 hour sessions, designed specifically for board members and senior leadership. This series offers an amended version of our three workshop programs: 101: Understanding Race & Racism, Deconstructing Whiteness & Allyship in Your Workplace.
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This session explores whiteness culture and how it shapes our values, ways of life and how we understand the world, and its structural impacts in our workplaces. We also examine common problematic response to racial discourse and how to identify those within ourselves and others.
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This workshop is specifically for People of Colour and First Nations staff at your organisation. PoC and First Nations people have unique experiences and relationships to oppressive systems. This session explores internalised racism and whiteness and how these systems impact us, strategies for wellbeing and solidarity in our collective fights for liberation alongside First Peoples and people marginalised under intersecting systems of oppression.
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This workshop explores how different traits of whiteness culture show up in your specific workplace setting to generate shared solutions to harmful & oppressive cultural issues for more inclusive and healthy environments.
The Deconstructing Whiteness workshop is a prerequisite to this program.
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This workshop is specifically for People of Colour and First Nations and explores how whiteness operates in not-for-profit organisations and how it influences ways of working, thinking and engaging with community and supporters.
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This program is designed for teachers, youth workers, community sector staff and all who work with young people and want to support their confidence and resilience to take action against racism. Young people have incredible capacity to take action against injustice, and even more when the grown-ups around them empower them!
This session equips participants with writing prompts, reflection questions, activities and resources for young people to address racism.
Leadership Workshops
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This workshop series is delivered across three 2 hour sessions, designed specifically for board members and senior leadership. This series offers an amended version of our three workshop programs: 101: Understanding Race & Racism, Deconstructing Whiteness & Allyship in Your Workplace.
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This two day program is designed for organisational leaders to vision and strategise for their organisation from a lens that honours lived experience, community need and accountability. Together ex explore the impact of top down vs bottom up power dynamics, the impact of organisational limitations on community accountability and common cultural issues that can hold us back from reaching our long-term goals.
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This program developed in collaboration with Bangka Healing Arts is designed to support leaders to better support themselves for long-term sustainability and success.
Too often, the demands of leadership push us into survival mode, disrupting our nervous system's equilibrium and hindering our capacity for genuine relationships, thoughtful decision-making, and visionary, inclusive work essential for transformative change.
Typically delivered as a four-part workshop series (however this can be adjusted based on your community or organisational needs) empowers leaders within organisations and movements with vital tools for nervous system regulation & embodiment to challenge pervasive organisational culture issues, such as urgency, defensiveness and power hoarding.
Intersectionality Workshops
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This workshop explores the 101 of Intersectionality and how people’s experiences of privilege and oppression are shaped by the interaction of race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and other identities. Participants will learn how systems of power overlap, creating unique barriers and forms of discrimination, particularly for those holding multiple marginalised identities.
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This session explores the logics of oppressive systems and the ways these are rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism more broadly, as well as intersectionality and how it relates to systems of oppression. Participants reflect on their own positionality within these systems, and apply a critical lens to understanding intersectionality including shortcomings of this framework in working towards collective liberation.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This workshop explores practical skills that can be applied to your specific workplace setting. Using a combination of group work, role play, and personal reflection, this workshop develops capacity for solidarity, accountability and empowered change. The session is strengths-based, future oriented, and focused on skills and strategies, to turn the talk into action.
Workshops for Change Making
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This workshop equips participants with the skills to build and empower their own communities to challenge systems of oppression and work towards justice on the issues that impact them. This program is focused on drawing on lived experience and mobilising and strengthening our own communities.
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This workshop is the first of 3 parts that explore the theory and practice of how we create change and challenge oppressive systems. In this first session we explore reform vs systems change, the assumptions that underpin both approaches, and the efficacy of different change efforts on the origin of oppressive systems on these lands. We also explore and critique dominant cultural ideologies like liberalism and the NFP sector and reflect on their impact on change efforts.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This workshop is the second of 3 parts that explore the theory and practice of how we create change and challenge oppressive systems. In this second session we explore bottom up vs top down power dynamics, and the roles each play in our organisations, leadership and efforts for making change. We explore our own positionality as individuals and organisations, and how they shape our change priorities and demands.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This workshop is the third of 3 parts that explore the theory and practice of how we create change and challenge oppressive systems. In this third session we revisit reform and systems change approaches and apply this lens to real life examples of activism efforts. We reflect on how we choose our tactics, when and how to escalate, and ways to support our communities to take risks. We ground this learning in the local and international struggle for justice and reflect on our own role and positionality within these.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This workshop explores emotional, community, and somatic tools for supporting and sustaining long term justice work. This includes exploring relational skills and their application to organising and community work, and challenges like whiteness influencing our ways of working. We also delve into Somatics concepts and tools to develop our understanding of how to support our individual and collective nervous systems for community work.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This session explores the logics of oppressive systems and the ways these are rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism more broadly, as well as intersectionality and how it relates to systems of oppression. Participants reflect on their own positionality within these systems, and apply a critical lens to understanding intersectionality including shortcomings of this framework in working towards collective liberation.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This session explores a range of relational challenges that communities navigate while working towards change. This includes topics like “cancel culture”, transformative justice, lateral violence. We also develop our understanding of boundaries and discernment, alongside building resilience to receiving feedback.
This session was developed with funding from Transgender Victoria’s peer support program.
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This workshop converts your newly developed understanding of race and racism into practical skills that can be applied to your specific workplace setting. Using a combination of group work, role play, and personal reflection, this workshop develops capacity for solidarity, accountability and empowered change. The session is strengths-based, future oriented, and focused on skills and strategies, to turn the talk into action.
Workshops for POC
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This workshop is specifically for People of Colour and First Nations staff at your organisation. PoC and First Nations people have unique experiences and relationships to oppressive systems. This session explores internalised racism and whiteness and how these systems impact us, strategies for wellbeing and solidarity in our collective fights for liberation alongside First Peoples and people marginalised under intersecting systems of oppression.
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This workshop is specifically for People of Colour and First Nations and explores how whiteness operates in not-for-profit organisations and how it influences ways of working, thinking and engaging with community and supporters.
Workshops for Organisational Cultural Change
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This workshop series is delivered across three 2 hour sessions, designed specifically for board members and senior leadership. This series offers an amended version of our three workshop programs: 101: Understanding Race & Racism, Deconstructing Whiteness & Allyship in Your Workplace.
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This session explores whiteness culture and how it shapes our values, ways of life and how we understand the world, and its structural impacts in our workplaces. We also examine common problematic response to racial discourse and how to identify those within ourselves and others.
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This workshop explores how different traits of whiteness culture show up in your specific workplace setting to generate shared solutions to harmful & oppressive cultural issues for more inclusive and healthy environments.
The Deconstructing Whiteness workshop is a prerequisite to this program.
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This workshop is specifically for People of Colour and First Nations and explores how whiteness operates in not-for-profit organisations and how it influences ways of working, thinking and engaging with community and supporters.
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This program developed in collaboration with Bangka Healing Arts is designed to support leaders to better support themselves for long-term sustainability and success.
Too often, the demands of leadership push us into survival mode, disrupting our nervous system's equilibrium and hindering our capacity for genuine relationships, thoughtful decision-making, and visionary, inclusive work essential for transformative change.
Typically delivered as a four-part workshop series (however this can be adjusted based on your community or organisational needs) empowers leaders within organisations and movements with vital tools for nervous system regulation & embodiment to challenge pervasive organisational culture issues, such as urgency, defensiveness and power hoarding.
LGBTIQA+ Workshops
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This workshop orients LGBTIQA+ rights and justice within the broader struggle against oppressive systems. Together we explore the relationships between the systems that oppress queer people with racial capitalism and colonialism, how tokenism and corporate co-option of LGBTIQA+ rights impact our communities, assimilation vs liberation, and how queer communities continue to resist oppressive systems in meaningful solidarity, with other groups.
Whether you’re interested in our established programs or looking for something custom:
Custom E-Learning Courses
Our e-learning modules provide the flexibility to learn at your own pace and convenience, eliminating the barriers of time and location.
What sets our courses apart is our approach to eLearning. With our extensive knowledge and experience in workshop facilitation, we have combined the lived experience of our facilitators, top-notch resources, and innovative technology to deliver engaging and safe learning journeys.
Interested in a custom e-learning program?
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