TRAINING & SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Wayfinder: The Uncharted Path is a journey-based course designed for individuals and teams seeking personal transformation, reconnection, and leadership grounded in the ancestral wisdom and cultural values of exploration, wayfinding, navigation and voyaging. It’s reflective, creative, and tailored to those navigating change — both personally and professionally.

• Personal development through ancestral knowledge
• Cultural reconnection, resilience & inner navigation
• Storytelling, voice, identity, reflection
• Life design through metaphor (stars, canoes, tides)
• Community-grounded purpose

• Professionals working in the First Nations space
• Workplace wellbeing & professional development
• Educators, youth workers, or health staff
• Community leaders, creatives, healers
• Individuals seeking purpose and grounding
• Youth (Specific youth programs)
• Retreats, reconnection journeys, cultural programs

• Online, hybrid, or in-person
• Journals, visual maps, podcasts, or storytelling
• Optional: South Sea Voyagers (On-water, Outrigger canoes)

• Renewed clarity and cultural grounding
• Reflective leadership capacity
• Personal roadmap for change
• Empowerment for quiet leaders and team reconnection
• Community project idea or creative piece
• A deepened sense of self and purpose

ACTIV8: Strategic Changemaker is a structured, skill-based leadership course for changemakers ready to step up, speak out, and take action. Grounded in cultural values but aimed at practical outcomes, this program builds capacity to influence systems, design campaigns, and activate communities.

Eight (8) Strategic Changemaker skillsets

1. Awaken: Truth-telling, self-awareness
2. Activate: Readiness, mobilising others
3. Advocate: Speaking up, influencing change
4. Action: Doing the work, taking steps
5. Activism: Strategy, resistance, systems
6. Adventure: Courage, experience, learning
7. Amplify: Storytelling, media, visibility
8. Ancestors: Legacy, lineage, guidance

• Local councils & Indigenous Shires
• Youth leadership and campaign programs
• NGOs, government, advocacy staff
• Emerging activists & organisers, Young Leaders
• Community or nation-building initiatives
• Retreats, reconnection journeys, cultural programs

• Online, hybrid, or in-person
• Journals, visual maps, podcasts, or storytelling
• In-person preferred (with digital components)
• Train-the-trainer and licensed facilitation available
• Workshops, simulations, leadership adventures (Torres Strait, Vanuatu, etc 

• Real campaign or project
• Confidence, storytelling, community influence 
• Public speaking & storytelling skills
• Organising and advocacy toolkit 
• Community readiness or election preparation
• Action plans, policy change, campaigns
• Youth or grassroots mobilisation

SOUTH SEA VOYAGERS: Wansolwara lets you experience the thrill and tradition of outrigger canoes, voyaging and outrigger canoe sailing, providing hands-on learning, team building and traditional ways of protecting our oceans. 

• Tradition, culture and history of outrigger canoes
• Understanding migration, navigation, Pacific History
• Paddling modern outrigger canoes
• Sailing in traditional and modern outrigger sailing canoes
• Climate change, ocean conservation

• Youth leadership programs
• Schools and home school students
• Team building - sports, corporate, family
• Community groups
• Retreats, reconnection journeys, cultural programs

• In person, on-water
• Some online  content

• Outrigger canoe paddling and sailing
• Team work, individual identity and responsibility
• Traditional voyaging concepts and history