Cultural Governance

How We Work

Highlighting our cultural governance system built upon First Nations ways of knowing, being, doing, our principles, and knowledge systems

First Nations-Led Governance:

Our governance is led by First Nations Elders and lived experience representatives, ensuring transparency and cultural integrity in decision-making

Resilience Over Political Cycles:

We maintain adaptability while ensuring political shifts do not derail First Nations SEWB and suicide prevention efforts

Financial Sustainability & Growth:

We explore revenue diversification through ethical funding, consultancy services, and cultural training

Decolonising Systems & Structures:

We embed First Nations methodologies across all operations, ensuring systemic change.

Truth-Telling as a Core Practice:

We ensure the sustainability of truth-telling initiatives through structured policy influence and lived experience advocacy.

Reciprocal and Ethical Partnerships:

Our partnerships are values-aligned, prioritising First Nations-led organisations and reciprocal knowledge-sharing

Community First Approach:

We integrate community-informed data into decision-making, ensuring lived experience drives strategic priorities.

Strength-based, Impact Driven Work:

We harness community strengths to create impact that is sustainable, accountable, and culturally led.

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge all Traditional Custodians of this vast and diverse continent now known as ‘Australia’. We honour the Ancestors, Elders, and Knowledge Holders who have cared for Country, its ecosystems, waterways, skies, and cosmos since the beginning of time. Their connection to Country is sovereign and enduring, and will forever remain unchanged by the impacts of colonisation.

We want to acknowledge First Nations Lived Experience. For First Nations Peoples, experiences of living have been passed down for thousands and thousands of years. It is how we survive, thrive, care for each other and Country. Our experiences are the foundation of relationships, of knowledge, that we carry in our Spirit. We acknowledge all lived experiences of First Nations Peoples that are brought to this work, and recognise the power and impact these experiences have on creating meaningful and impactful change for our Communities.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.