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Heart-based
Training Education Services
What we do
Heart-based is committed to supporting professionals in their work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, families and communities.
We do this in the provision of training, education and services that builds on your organization's strengths, local knowledges, and practices.
Our Training Events
Professional Development
Heart-based offers training to individuals through Eventbrite events.
Whether you are wanting to hone existing skills or learn new ones, Heart-based offers a range of workshops throughout the year to support you in staying engaged in your work and excited about building your networks.
In-house Training
Heart-based also offers in-house training and reflective practice sessions for your teams or organization with the provision of face-to-face training in a venue of your choice.
Benefits for all of your employees is not only learning new skills, but also boosting their confidence, developing their leadership skills, and building networks which can only lead to greater job satisfaction and the growth of a stronger team.
Each event has clearly articulated learning outcomes and a Certificate of Attendance to help support any reporting requirements.
All tools and resources consider areas of neuroscience and trauma, with our aim to support your organization in becoming culturally fit through the integration of local wisdoms and lived experiences.
Who we are
Why Heart-based?
Grounded With Purpose
Heart-based is an independently owned First Nations business dedicated to improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families and communities by supporting the professionals that work most with them.
A Heart for Connection
Heart-based values wellbeing and social justice for all, deep connections, collaborative partnerships, respectful relationships, creative endeavours, supportive and strong leadership, and being an agent of systemic and structural change.
Relationships, respect and opportunities underpin the work we do.
By working with Heart-based, you are supporting a 100% Indigenous-owned and operated local business, 'closing the gap' of cultural divides and gaining new appreciations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and ways of being and doing.
Our Founder and Training Consultant
Meet Georgina
Georgina, the founder of Heart-based, is a Social Worker and active membr of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She completed a postgraduate Masters in Mental Health Practice and has been practicing in a variety of settings including intergenerational trauma, mental health, child protection, child and family trauma, and domestic violence.
Georgina is an advocate for the vulnerable and at-risk and has seen how systems can help and how they can unintentionally harm. In response to this, and as an agent of change, Georgina has developed a suite of training events to create systems and practice change that is empathic to the work of professionals, as well as inclusive of the exeriences of the clients they work with.
Georgina, a Torres Strait Islander woman, is also a firm believer in the ongoing strength and resilience of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and can tailor Heart-based's Cultural Fitness training for organizations to strategically take meaningful steps and become agents of change.
