Workshops
Transforming relationships
Compassion in connection: Sea Land People and Ancestral Wisdom
These workshops create space for reflection, dialogue, and shared responsibility, supporting individuals, communities, and organisations seeking balance, understanding, and meaningful connection. They are shaped by creation stories inviting participants to engage with teachings in ways that are respectful, accessible, and human-centred. Story-based tools support reflection, discussion, and learning across settings. We invite and encourage inquiry—helping participants explore values, relationships, and responsibilities through story, symbolism, and guided reflection.
We invite participants to explore compassion as a relational practice, grounded in connection to Sea Country, Land, community, and ancestral wisdom. It emphasises that compassion is not only an individual capacity, but something that is held, practised, and sustained through relationships and place.
“We’re all connected.”
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
- Deepen understanding of compassion as relational and place-based
- Recognise the role of ancestral and place based knowledge and wisdom cultural continuity in shaping wellbeing
- Explore reciprocity and responsibility in relationships with people, land, and sea
- Reflect on how groundedness and connection support sustainable compassion
- Recognise the role of creation stories and ancestral narratives in shaping identity and knowledge
Key Themes
- Ancestral and Place-Based Wisdom: Knowledge systems grounded in Country, Sea, and cultural continuity
- Relational Connection: Strengthening bonds between people, place, and story
- Grounded Presence: Being present in body, place, and relationship
Belong Us: Sea, Sky, Land and Ancestral Wisdom
Belonging in Practice
Introducing our new workshop offering, Belonging in Practice — grounded in Sea, Sky, Land, and Ancestral Wisdom. This framework begins with a simple understanding: we are deeply connected to Country, to each other, and to the knowledge carried across generations.
At the foundation is Ancestral and Place-Based Wisdom, recognising knowledge held through story, lore, observation, and lived connection to sea, sky, and land. From this foundation, we explore Relational Practice and Cultural Humility which shows up with respect, reflection, accountability, and openness to ongoing learning.
This comes to life through the Circle of Compassion and Care, where understanding becomes action, and where dignity, connection, and collective wellbeing are strengthened through everyday practice.
A two day workshop including workbook for a maximum of 25 people. Reach out about customisations for larger groups.
Delivery in
- Brisbane $550 per/participant inc GST
- Cairns $460 per/participant inc GST
Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) Culture and History 2-day Workshop
Zenadth Kes peoples maintain enduring connections to their islands, seas, ancestors, and Ailan Kastom. These are living systems that continue to shape identity, law, and community life today.
This two-day, face-to-face workshop offers a relational learning experience grounded in story, reflection, and shared dialogue designed to deepen understanding of how history, culture and knowledge systems continue to inform practice and engagement today.
This program is designed for professionals across community services, education, health, and human services seeking to strengthen capability to work respectfully and relationally with Zenadth Kes peoples and communities.
Ancestral Knowledge and cultural continuity
Explore creation stories, ancestral knowledge, cultural continuity, and Ailan Kastom as a living system of identity, governance, and belonging that continues to guide community life.
A snapshot of the learning topics explored across the two-day workshop.
Session snapshot: Creation stories & concepts of time
Focus: Explore Zenadth Kes cosmologies, ancestral narratives, and concepts of cyclical and relational time, and how these shape cultural practice, responsibility, and ways of being in Zenadth Kes communities.
Why this matters: Different understandings of time shape how relationships, expectations, and responsibilities are experienced across cultures. This supports reflection on how we engage and work with others.
Self-Determination & Rights
Examine key moments in Zenadth Kes political and legal history that continue to shape recognition, governance, and self-determination.
Includes the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1939 and the Mabo Decision (1992), which reshaped understandings of land, law, and sovereignty.
What You’ll Gain
Participants will:
- Develop knowledge of Zenadth Kes histories, cultures, identities, and contemporary realities through culturally grounded and community-informed narratives
- Understand how history, policy, and place continue to shape community experiences and engagement
- Reflect on assumptions, perspectives, and decision-making to strengthen culturally responsive practice
- Apply relational approaches that centre Zenadth Kes voices, lived experience, and ways of knowing
Organisational Outcomes
This two-day workshop supports organisations to:
- Strengthen workforce capability in culturally responsive and relational practice across all levels
- Build relational, respectful, and culturally responsive practice across teams and services
- Embed cultural safety and reflective practice into everyday service delivery
Learning Themes (Overview only)
- Creation stories and concepts of time
- Torres Strait cultural and archaeological histories
- Ailan Kastom, governance, and belonging
- Self-determination, rights, and the legacy of Mabo Decision (1992) and, law and sovereignty.
- Kinship, languages and cultural responsibilities
- Contemporary Zenadth Kes identities, leadership, and community life
- Cultural humility and relational practice
Delivery in
- Brisbane $550 per/participant inc GST
- Cairns $460 per/participant inc GST