YarnnUp: First Nations cultural awareness and capability training
At YarnnUp, our training helps educators move beyond awareness to action, equipping individuals with the skills to create culturally safe learning environments, strengthen teacher student relationships, and embed reconciliation as a lived practice.
What makes YarnnUp different
Our programs uniquely blend First Nations knowledge systems with Western academia including elements of emotional and cultural intelligence, behavioural change principles, and neuroscience. The combination of these knowledge systems informs our proprietary Ancestral Intelligence Framework™ that decodes unconscious biases, assumptions, and limiting behavioural patterns that can prevent genuine cross-cultural connection. We help educators reframe their thinking, enhance cultural capability, and lead with curiosity and empathy.
Learning outcomes: What you’ll gain
Upon completion of YarnnUp’s programs, educators will be able to:
• Communicate and manage relationships with First Nations students and families with confidence.
• Understand and shift subconscious paradigms that influence thoughts and actions.
• Develop cross-cultural intelligence to enhance engagement and classroom inclusivity.
• Identify how assumptions and stereotypes impact teaching practice, school culture, and
student-teacher relationships.
• Apply neuroscience-informed strategies to reframe perceptions and behaviours.
• Overcome unconscious bias and build authentic cultural connections.
• Implement a practical, step-by-step action plan to create lasting, positive change, and
neuro-flexibility.
Our program offerings
Woven Wisdom™ E-Learning
An interactive, self-paced digital experience designed to challenge and expand how educators engage with First Nations perspectives. Woven Wisdom is designed to support learners at all levels to build confidence in navigating cross cultural interactions with First Nations peoples effectively. It creates a safe and structured space to explore the histories, identities, and relational principles that shape First Nations experiences and leadership today.
The modules are filled with practical tips and tools to create genuine connections while building cultural safety.
• Accessible anytime, anywhere.
• Supports individual reflection and whole school capability uplift.
• Built on cultural logic, neuroscience, behavioural science, and First Nations narratives.
Threads of Practice – Cultural Capability Training
Face-to-face and virtual programs that drive genuine structural change:
• Cultural Awareness Foundations: History, protocols, reconciliation, and effective cross-cultural engagement (90 minute or half day sessions).
• Cultural Capability Intensives: Cultural safety, empathy, bias mitigation, cultural values assessment, practical conflict resolution, and relationship building skills (full day or two day sessions).
• On-Country Immersions: Place-based immersive learning with First Nations facilitators (full day or two day sessions).
• Leadership Masterclasses: Reconciliation leadership, truth-telling, ethical ally-ship, and team building (full day or two day sessions).
Why this matters for educators
Education is a powerful platform for reconciliation. YarnnUp’s training empowers educators to:
• Create culturally safe, inclusive classrooms.
• Strengthen connections with students, families, and communities.
• Embed Country, culture, and truth-telling into everyday teaching.
• Meet curriculum commitments through authentic action.
• Build careers as ethical leaders in reconciliation and cultural capability.
When educators lead through culture, they help shape a stronger, more inclusive future for all.
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