Warida Wholistic Wellness | Organisational Learning

Above and Below the Line

Culturally Integrated Leadership and Workplace Wellbeing Training

A practical and engaging training experience that helps individuals and teams notice behaviours, understand their impact, and choose a more constructive response.

Above the Line

Responses that support reflection, openness and meaningful engagement.

Curiosity and willingness to listen
Taking responsibility for our choices
Respectful and honest communication
Openness to different perspectives
Deep listening and relational awareness
Connection and collaborative action

Below the Line

Responses that can arise when we experience pressure, uncertainty or perceived threat.

Defensiveness and blame
Withdrawal or avoidance
Making assumptions
Reacting without reflection
Difficulty hearing another perspective
Disconnection and reduced trust

Everyone moves between these responses. The opportunity is to notice where we are and explore how to respond differently.

The Warida culturally integrated approach

This experience extends beyond identifying workplace behaviours to explore what may be influencing them.

Grounded in the Warida Method, the training draws upon Ngardi Guwanda, the Badimia practice of listening, thinking and feeling deeply.

Participants are invited to consider the influence of culture, lived experience, trauma, power, organisational expectations and relationships upon the way people respond.

Warida’s LISTEN Framework supports participants to pause, reflect, listen deeply and move towards intentional and accountable action.

Cultural safety is not simply about individual awareness. It is also shaped by power, relationships, systems and the conditions organisations create for people to feel heard and respected.

What will we explore together?

PRACTICAL OUTCOMES

Stronger People. Healthier Workplaces.

This is not two hours of sitting and listening to a presentation.

Participants engage through guided reflection, interactive activities, realistic workplace scenarios, paired conversations and opportunities to practise responding differently.

Activities are facilitated with care, recognising that personal reflection and culturally safe learning require choice, dignity and respect. Participants are not expected to disclose personal experiences of trauma.

Participants will leave with:

Greater awareness of their own workplace responses.
Practical ways to pause and respond with curiosity.
A deeper understanding of cultural and relational influences upon behaviour.
Strategies for navigating challenging conversations.
An understanding of how individual and organisational accountability work together.
One or two meaningful actions to strengthen everyday workplace practice.

Designed Around your People

Who is this workshop for?

The two hour experience is suitable for people working across all organisational levels, including:

Frontline staff and operational teams

Managers and team leaders

Senior leaders and executive teams

Government departments and agencies

Health and community service organisations

First Nations organisations

Teams navigating workplace change or conflict

Content and activities are tailored to the organisation, the participants and the learning objectives.

Delivery

Organisations may also commission a series of sessions to extend learning and strengthen workplace practice over time.

Meet your facilitator

Bianca Stawiarski

Bianca is a Badimia (Yamatji) and Ukrainian woman, Founder and Managing Director of Warida Wholistic Wellness, PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor, mental health practitioner and experienced facilitator.

Her approach brings together First Nations ways of knowing, clinical experience, trauma informed principles, cultural understanding and relational practice.

Bianca creates thoughtful and engaging learning environments where participants can explore complex workplace issues with honesty, care and accountability.

Bring this conversation to your workplace

Meaningful workplace change begins with a willingness to listen more deeply, understand what shapes our responses and consider what we can do differently.

We welcome the opportunity to yarn about your organisation’s needs and explore how this learning experience may support your people and workplace.

Warida Wholistic Wellness
Kaurna Country, Adelaide, South Australia
www.warida.com.au