Aboriginal cultural awareness for workplaces

Build your Aboriginal cultural capability and grow your Aboriginal workforce


Learn about Aboriginal experience

Create a safer and more respectful workplace

Grow your Aboriginal workforce


Most workplaces struggle to build support for employing more Aboriginal people

This leaves leaders frustrated by:

  • People who don’t understand why they should support Aboriginal employment

  • People who don’t know the history of this country

  • Time and money wasted on Aboriginal cultural awareness programs that feel good but don’t deliver change

This is because people don’t understand Aboriginal experience and why gaps exist.

Everyone should’ve been taught this at school - but instead it’s your job to create a safer and more respectful workplace.


Take back control of your impact with Aboriginal Cultural Awareness for Workplaces

Learn about Aboriginal experience

Learn about traditional cultures and society, Australia’s dark past and what it all means for your workplace. Leave with a simple plan to do things differently.

Create a safer and more respectful workplace

Specifically designed to help people learn what they need to understand why they should support Aboriginal workplace initiatives.

Make a real difference and real get results

Get everyone on board you can focus your collective efforts on your purpose and impact.


Your purpose matters

“I learnt so much in 4 hours - I learnt more in the time than any other cultural awareness training ever attended. I definitely recommend Lindsay and Blakworks to any employer that was looking to make their environment a culturally safe place for Aboriginal people.”

- Jenni Allan, CEO, Adssi Ltd

“Lindsay Stanford has an incredible ability to bring concepts, ideas and practical thinking to the forefront and get you thinking about what you are really doing if you don’t change.”

- Bobbi Murray, First Nations Cadetship Administrator, CLCNSW

“The session provided the collective understanding that we all needed to ‘get’ Aboriginal experience and with a way to hold each other accountable. We all understood that Kamira had to be a safe space for Aboriginal clients and for future Aboriginal staff.”

- Cate Hewett, CEO, Kamira


Your workplace matters

Aboriginal Cultural Awareness delivered at your workplace

5-hour face to face comprehensive session

12-week email support

20-minute support calls


Ready to Start The Transformation? Here's How

Making a change in your organisation is simpler than you think.

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Implement change

The Aboriginal Cultural Awareness for Workplaces covers the following topics:

  • Rationale for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment initiatives

  • Aboriginal identity and the Blakworks’ model of Aboriginal experience

  • Traditional beliefs, values and practices of Aboriginal people in New South Wales

  • The history of disadvantage faced by Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people

  • How this history continues to impact on education, employment and other opportunities and outcomes

  • Acceptable language for referring to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people and communities in workplace contexts

  • Practical strategies for staff and the organisation to create a culturally safe workplace and contribute to positive Aboriginal employment outcomes


Not just any Aboriginal Cultural awareness

  1. Designed for workplaces

    The Aboriginal Cultural Awareness for Workplaces is specifically designed to help people learn what they need to know so they can support Aboriginal initiatives. It's designed to be of practical use in the workplace. It's designed to prompt you to ask, how do I need to do things differently in my workplace?

  2. Face-to-face not click-to-click

    It's face to face. So there's an element of interaction. You can't just click through and pass the multiple choice tests at the end. You're in a room with a real-life Aboriginal person, listening to real stories. It's not designed for compliance. It's designed to engage and change minds.

  3. A simple plan for change

    A simple framework is used to support behavioural change. We need more than changed minds. We need changed actions. We must raise the standard to which we hold ourselves and our colleagues. Without commitment to change our behaviours, it won’t make a difference.

The Aboriginal Cultural Awareness for Workplaces session provides a holistic look at Aboriginal cultures, disadvantage and the workplace using an entertaining, and often humorous, presentation which encourages open questioning and discussion.


Are you a not for profit leader in NSW?

Two Free Tickets for Not For Profits

Register your organisation and receive two free tickets to a public session of the Aboriginal Cultural Awareness for Workplaces in your region.