Case study

NDIA: First Nations cultural-safety learning ecosystem

Assistant Director, Training Design Package Lead · NDIA (First Nations / Cultural Safety) · 2026

A program strategy for embedding cultural safety across the workforce, built on the principle that safety is judged by the people who receive it. Shown here as strategy and design. The cultural content itself is shaped with First Nations people.

The Challenge

Embed recipient-determined cultural safety across frontline roles, aligned to the NDIS First Nations Strategy 2025–30 and Closing the Gap Priority Reform 3, where the standard is whether the recipient experiences safety, not whether training was delivered.

What I Did

Designed a segmented program architecture mapping the First Nations Cultural Safety Principles to four workforce cohorts (eLearning, workshops, critical-reflection circles and communities of practice, anchored by a Cultural Safety Learning Hub) and owned the enterprise learning calendar across a 2025–28 roadmap.

The Outcome

Delivered a multi-cohort cultural-safety learning system, with the underlying thinking published as two interactive tools (items 9 and 10).

Tools — Storyline 360 · Rise 360

BP · Bernie Petter

Bernie Petter lives and works on Wadawurrung Country. I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People as Traditional Custodians of this land, and pay my respects to Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

© Bernie Petter 2026