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we do public and private co-design training (online and in person)

co-design between worlds: care, solidarity and reclamation

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🗓️ 11 September 2025, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Australian Eastern Time buy tickets
📍 Koorie Heritage Trust, Naarm (Melbourne)

This event at Koorie Heritage Trust on the Birrarung offers practical tools and stories for co-designing between worlds while centering care, solidarity and supporting self-determination for many communities. 

In recognition of the communities we belong to, we offer a special rate for mob, trans folks and for young people (under 25). We’re also offering early bird rates until 23 July 2025.

We’ll yarn, connect and learn about:

  • reclaiming co-design as something mob have done for thousands of years 

  • exploring how we hold each other up in this work, roles and care structures 

  • supporting many communities to reclaim authorship from beginning to end 

  • doing co-design and co-production in ways that are more accessible and accountable to communities 

  • sharing projects and examples from our work (you’ll have the chance to share yours, if you want to)


pictured is a yarning mat, wattle and Lisa Congdon’s values cards.

private training for teams

we’ve trained many teams in co-design - from introductory-focused sessions, to teams who want to build deeper skills and reflect on what’s already working

our most popular course: understanding co-design (delivered over 3 half-day sessions)

  • in-person or online

  • minimum of 8 participants

  • we work with you ahead of the training to customise the course

  • we talk to a few of your team to learn about current practices and learning goals

📋 series description

in this series you’ll bring your own knowledge and learn: 

  • what co-design is and is not

  • how to recognise co-design and tell it apart from other design and engagement approaches

  • about some of the different roles within co-design

  • about the Model of Care for Co-design and how to apply it

  • about mindsets, practical frameworks, tools and methods you can use (even if you’re not able to do a full co-design process)

understanding co-design: a one-day virtual training

🗓️ 3 September 2025, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Australian Eastern Time buy tickets

📋 what will I learn?

  • what co-design is and is not

  • how to recognise co-design and tell it apart from other design and engagement approaches 

  • the different roles within co-design

  • a few ways to plan co-design 

If you’re seeking in-depth training we recommend co-designing with care, co-design for leaders or enquiring about the private and customised training we offer.

co-design for leaders

🗓️ Next course: July 2025 (learn more and register)
🗓️ March 2026 (learn more and register)

While co-design is increasing in popularity, many leaders aren’t clear about how to support co-design to succeed. Staff and communities feel the confusion. Co-design isn’t right for all projects. Done poorly, co-design can cause harm and damage relationships.

📋 course description

This course will develop your understanding of co-design and teach you:

  • about different ways, roles and responsibilities, including yours as a sponsor or funder

  • how to set-up and support people leading and participating in co-design

  • about making wise decisions about where co-design is best, scoping

  • about the need for culturally and community-specific ways

  • about checking-in and encouraging a broader culture of curiosity and co-design.

This course is for leaders. We won’t turn you into a co-design practitioner.

🗓️ Next course: July 2025 - SOLD OUT
🗓️ February 2026 - express your interest
🗓️ July 2026 - express your interest

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📋 what will I learn?

in this seven-part course, you’ll learn: 

  • about your scope of practice

  • how to plan and co-plan co-design with safety, inclusion, connection and hospitality

  • ways to care for yourself, others and outcomes during co-design

  • about accountability, courage and repair in co-design

  • about different roles in co-design

  • about different kinds of individual and collective care for co-design facilitators and team members

  • how to better anticipate and plan for phase shifts and endings

  • from peers.

together we try to build solidarity and collective care

💌 to enquire about training in a topic that isn’t listed here contact us.

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