OFFERINGS

Backed by trauma-informed principles, robust evidence, and over a decade of experience working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, we are excited to introduce our First Nations Leadership Program, launching in January 2025.

This transformative six-month journey is designed to support personal and professional growth while meeting the unique needs of First Nations teams. Empower your team with the tools to thrive—in their careers and all aspects of life.

What’s Included

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• Eight Knowledge-Sharing Modules: Insightful sessions tailored to build leadership and resilience.

• Four Informal Yarning Circles: A space to reflect, connect, and integrate your learnings.

• Three 1:1 Coaching Sessions: Personalized support to help you achieve your goals.

• Peer Support Network: Access to a private Facebook or WhatsApp group for ongoing inspiration, collaboration, and learning.

• Guided Meditations & Grounding Activities: Tools to nurture your wellbeing throughout the program.

• Customised Resources & Tools: Practical worksheets and resources to apply learnings in real-world settings.

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Join us for a journey that empowers First Nations leaders to thrive, inspire, and create lasting impact.

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Download the program PDF HERE

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At Blak Wattle, we bring deep expertise in therapeutic and coaching contexts, combined with a passion for supporting organisations to navigate the intersections of trauma, stress, burnout, and racism. We're proud to launch a new workshop series tailored specifically for non-Indigenous people and managers.
 

These engaging and practical workshops focus on:
 

• Clarifying Values: Understanding how your values shape your actions and interactions.

• Building Critical Reflexivity: Developing reflective skills through our three-step framework, inspired by the work of Professor Pat Dudgeon, to foster more thoughtful and inclusive practices.

• Fostering Meaningful Conversations: Practicing deep listening, asking powerful questions, and applying Aboriginal engagement principles to cultivate genuine, impactful dialogue.
   

Join us to deepen your understanding, enhance your practice, and contribute to more inclusive workplaces and communities.

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Download the program PDF HERE

We recognise at the heart of each organisation’s culture, is their why, their strategic and operational plan. Whilst there is no universally agreed strategic planning process. Blak Wattle’s process focuses on working with stakeholders to understand the transformative power of story and value setting to mobilise change.

 

Blak Wattle helps organisations define a bold vision for their future, and where they intend to play to win, and creates a plan with objectives, goals and desired staff attributes to reach that future.

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Taking a three staged approach, Blak Wattle helps organisations reimagine their future using the following steps:

• Inspire – what does industry and sector specific research and evidence suggest

• Connect – Engage and consult with leaders and change makers to mobilise change, and define what tools and attributes staff, and the organisation will need to cultivate a new future

• Design and Test – develop and test a strategic plan prototype. 

Relying on principles of holistic Aboriginal Social Emotional Wellbeing, this is a meaningful space for leaders to develop their leadership competencies with a former Counsellor and Executive Direction. A safe and sacred space for any person managing staff who is feeling overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and systems to manage the day to day demands of people management.

 

Every client is different, but some here are some of the various outcomes clients typically strive for: 

• Learn to declutter the mind and become more productive at work and at home. 

• Develop project management and productivity systems . 

• Understand personality types and transform leadership style. 

• Learn about toxic and chronic stress and develop mindfulness techniques to stay more grounded at work.

• Gain clarity about limiting beliefs and how they impact the mindset. 

• Implement nourishing, sustainable practices to avoid burnout.

• Provide effective tools to facilitate safe, valuable and culturally informed conversations in the workforce. 

• Unpack and draw on external and internal resources.

• Build cohesion, safety and trust amongst teams.

• Put systems in place for teams to work well together.
   

What participants receive: 

• A safe and sacred space

• 6 x 1 -hour Zoom video coaching sessions

• 1 x Personalised Trello board to goal track and action steps in between sessions

• An initial questionnaire to get clarity on your vision + a 30-minute discovery and goal setting

• Accountability checks to stay in action and avoid getting stuck

• 6x session recordings so you can keep track of learnings and insights

• Guided meditations of grounded and support

• Customised resources , worksheets and tools to assist your growth and fast track clarity and success

• UNLIMITED accountability, hype women and email support 

Blak Wattle is highly skilled when it comes to providing tailored and thought-provoking workshops, yarning circles, dialogues and discussions. We take pride in coordinating safe and meaningful conversations that rely on ancient Aboriginal knowledge systems of deep listening, reciprocity and respect. 

 

We recognise there is no one size fits all facilitation approach, we work collaboratively to:

• Define your meeting or workshop core objectives.

• We deeply listen, observe and ask open ended and thought-provoking questions to achieve your objectives.

• We playback key insights from discussions and produce communiques and reports to close the feedback loop.

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Blak Wattle also delivers a six-month program titled 'Blak Burnout' for any First Nations person, or those managing First Nations staff. It is an interactive, highly regarded, holistic, and
trauma-informed six-month program that explores key concepts related to understanding burnout, de-escalating stress, increasing reflexivity, and strengthening interpersonal connections and conversations.

What to expect:

• Knowledge and evidence based learning

• Bush walks, somatic activities and moving through stored stress in the body (Wuyupa)

• Team building & interactive games / activities

• Cultural healing activities, yarning Circles and interactive workshops

• Space to unwind and time to learn from Blak Facilitators

• Wellbeing handouts, e-books and resources

Blak Wattle is highly skilled in the areas of Aboriginal health, Aboriginal social emotional wellbeing, and community-based health responses, with extensive and proven experience delivering co-design solutions in policy design and in a therapeutic environment.

 

We offer professional advice, guidance, and actionable solutions to governments and organisations, working as a highly motivated and organised extension of your team or organisation.

To support the continuing development of leaders and teams, Blak Wattle provides a number of masterclasses on topics such as:

• ‘Leading through deep listening: how to give and receive feedback’ 

• ‘Understanding Burnout: understanding stories of self + developing self-care strategies’

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Blak Wattle prides itself on facilitating joy and meaning through deep connections and we offer a series of formal and informal tailored team building solutions.

 

Team building helps to create cohesion and connectivity in the workplace, to strengthen teams in working towards their collective goals. This can involve listening circles, yarning circles, curated conversations and fun team building activities to spark joy and a sense of share purpose back into your team or workplace.