Work With Biik Bundjil
Grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge, we partner with organisations through cultural experiences, education, professional learning, strategic advisory and long-term partnerships.
Grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge, we partner with organisations through cultural experiences, education, professional learning, strategic advisory and long-term partnerships.
Choose one experience, or bring a few together. Every organisation is different, so explore our options and choose what works for you, from cultural experiences and education programs to professional learning, keynotes and advisory.
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Explore Boonwurrung Country, its places, clans and contemporary communities.
Biik Bundjil also works with schools, organisations and communities across Victoria, Australia and internationally.
Eligible Victorian early childhood services can access a range of Biik Bundjil experiences through School Readiness Funding. Explore our SRF programs, professional learning and cultural education experiences designed to support your service, educators and community.
Embed the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge into the heart of your organisation.
Ideas that change the way people think about Country, culture and healthier human systems.
Experience Boonwurrung Culture Through Story, Ceremony and Connection to Country
Inspiring curiosity, deepening relationships and bringing Boonwurrung knowledge into everyday learning.
Bringing the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge into organisations through practical learning experiences.
Guiding organisations, projects and places through culturally grounded strategy, advice and decision-making.
Organisational Partnerships
Building the Foundations
Begin is for organisations ready to move beyond a one-off experience and establish a meaningful, ongoing relationship with Biik Bundjil.
The partnership creates space to strengthen cultural understanding, connect with Country and place, engage leadership and identify practical opportunities for the relationship to grow.
Rather than trying to change everything at once, Begin establishes strong foundations for continued learning and engagement.
Meaningful cultural engagement develops through relationship, continuity and learning over time.
Begin creates an opportunity to understand where your organisation is now, strengthen foundational knowledge and identify where deeper cultural and place-based work could make a meaningful difference.
Organisational Partnerships
Move from learning into practice.
Embed is a 12-month partnership designed to move cultural learning beyond individual experiences and into everyday organisational practice.
Through sustained engagement across the year, Embed brings together professional learning, leadership, cultural experiences and Biik Bundjil’s approaches to Country, culture and human systems to strengthen cultural awareness and safety, deepen connection to Country and support relational practice across teams, programs and environments.
Cultural learning has greater impact when it continues beyond individual experiences and begins shaping everyday practice.
Embed creates the time and continuity for organisations to deepen cultural awareness and safety, strengthen relationships with Country and explore how Biik Bundjil’s approaches to culture, relational practice and human systems can inform the way people learn, lead and work together.
The result is learning that can be carried into everyday environments, relationships and ways of working, rather than ending when a session finishes.
Organisational Partnerships
Build lasting change
Flourish is a deeper strategic partnership designed to strengthen how Country, culture, relational practice and human systems are reflected across organisational life.
Through sustained engagement, Flourish brings together cultural learning, strategic leadership and Biik Bundjil’s cultural and human systems frameworks to work across people, relationships, programs, environments and organisational practice.
The partnership creates stronger connections between what people learn, how leaders lead and the conditions, relationships and systems that shape everyday organisational life.
Lasting change rarely comes from a single workshop, resource or initiative.
It develops when cultural learning and human flourishing are supported through leadership, relationships, environments and organisational systems over time.
Flourish creates the depth and continuity to examine not only what people know, but how an organisation operates. By bringing Country, culture, relational practice and human systems into conversation, organisations can develop more connected, culturally informed and relational ways of learning, leading and working together.
It challenged us to think differently about leadership, organisational wellbeing and the systems we create around educators… he offered a fundamentally different way of understanding ourselves, our relationships and our work through the enduring wisdom of Aboriginal knowledge systems.
Organisational Partnerships
Build an ongoing relationship with the rhythms of Country.
Country is constantly changing. Seasonal Intelligence™ helps organisations and communities notice those changes and build a deeper relationship with the places in which they live, learn and work.
The Institutional Partnership provides a practical pathway for organisations to engage with Seasonal Intelligence™ across learning, planning, communications, wellbeing, environmental education, community engagement and place-based practice.
Rather than purchasing a static resource, organisations enter a three-year relationship designed to grow and evolve over time.
Year One | Establish: $5,000 + GST
Year Two | Grow: $1,250 + GST
Year
Three | Deepen: $1,250 + GST
Total three-year investment: $7,500 + GST
After the initial three-year partnership, organisations can continue as Seasonal Intelligence™ Institutional Partners annually, from $1,250 + GST per year.
Country is constantly changing.
Plants flower. Animals move. Water changes. Weather shifts. Different conditions create different rhythms, opportunities and capacities.
Seasonal Intelligence™ invites organisations to notice those changes and develop a deeper relationship with the places in which they operate. The Boonwurrung Seasonal Calendar provides a practical entry point, while the Institutional Partnership supports organisations to move beyond displaying a calendar towards observing, learning from and responding to Country over time.
It turns seasonal knowledge from something people read about into something organisations can notice, engage with and build relationships around.
Organisational Partnerships
Built around your organisation
Custom Strategic Partnerships are designed for organisations, institutions and major projects that need something beyond a predefined pathway.
Biik Bundjil works collaboratively with organisations to design a partnership around their people, places, communities and priorities, bringing together the areas of our work that are most relevant to the relationship.
This can span Country, culture, education, leadership, human systems, place, research and strategic advisory, with the scope, duration and investment developed specifically for the partnership.
Some of the most meaningful work cannot be reduced to a standard program or package.
Large organisations, complex projects and long-term relationships often involve multiple communities, sites, teams and priorities. A Custom Strategic Partnership creates the flexibility to respond to that complexity while maintaining cultural integrity, clear purpose and a connected approach.
It allows the relationship to be designed around what the work actually requires.
Keynotes & Speaking
Restoring Humanity’s Relationship with Time.
What if the problem isn’t that people don’t have enough time… What if we’ve forgotten how to relate to it?
Seasonal Intelligence™ explores how Boonwurrung seasonal knowledge offers a different way of understanding planning, leadership, wellbeing and organisational life.
Rather than organising around urgency, participants discover how living systems organise around rhythm. The keynote introduces the Seasonal Intelligence™ Framework while challenging audiences to rethink productivity, burnout and organisational culture.
His depth of knowledge, and passion for sharing his knowledge, is incredible. He was so engaging, warm, funny, and caring, and I truly learnt so much from him.
Keynotes & Speaking
The Conditions That Shape Human Capacity.
Human behaviour makes more sense when we understand the conditions surrounding people.
Capacity Informed Practice™ introduces a practical framework that shifts conversations away from blame and towards creating environments where people can genuinely flourish.
Participants explore how conditions influence learning, leadership, wellbeing and organisational culture.
Using the Boonwurrung understanding of seasons, cycles and our relationship with Country, Jaeden explored concepts including Time Safety, Seasonal Intelligence, regulation, shame and relational systems in ways that felt both deeply human and immediately relevant for our 600+ educators.
Keynotes & Speaking
Learning Through Relationship.
What happens when education begins with Country rather than curriculum?
Education Reimagined explores how Boonwurrung knowledge transforms teaching, learning and student wellbeing by reconnecting education with place, observation and relationship.
Ideal for educators seeking practical ideas that support both academic learning and human flourishing.
Using the Boonwurrung understanding of seasons, cycles and our relationship with Country, Jaeden explored concepts including Time Safety, Seasonal Intelligence, regulation, shame and relational systems in ways that felt both deeply human and immediately relevant for our 600+ educators.
Keynotes & Speaking
Building Healthier Human Systems.
Leadership is ultimately about relationships.
This keynote explores how Boonwurrung knowledge, together with the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge, provides practical ways to strengthen trust, belonging, organisational culture and leadership.
Participants discover that healthier organisations are built through healthier relationships.
The way he spoke to an audience of adult pre-service teachers was so powerful and thought provoking. I listened deeply and took so much away to continue on my journey.
Cultural Experiences
A traditional welcome grounded in Boonwurrung story, language and cultural protocol.
Delivered by a Boonwurrung Traditional Owner, this ceremony welcomes visitors onto Country while recognising the relationship between the Boonwurrung people and the lands, waters and skies where the event takes place, through language, story and cultural protocol.
Creates a meaningful, respectful opening that reflects values of inclusion and connection.
He always manages to captivate his audience… The children loved the Magic! Love and Magic and it has inspired our programming and Acknowledgments.
Cultural Experiences
A traditional cleansing ceremony that marks new beginnings through connection to Country.
A Boonwurrung Smoking Ceremony marks significant occasions with intention, acknowledging the spiritual and cultural importance of Country. Participants pass through the smoke as a symbolic act of renewal and shared purpose.
Creates a powerful shared experience connecting people with place while recognising continuing Boonwurrung traditions.
He always manages to captivate his audience… The children loved the Magic! Love and Magic and it has inspired our programming and Acknowledgments.
Cultural Experiences
A complete cultural opening that welcomes, cleanses and connects participants to Country.
Combines a Welcome to Country with a Smoking Ceremony for a rich cultural beginning, ideal for conferences, major events, community celebrations and milestones.
The most comprehensive cultural opening available, demonstrating genuine commitment to respectful engagement with Country.
Cultural Experiences
Experience Boonwurrung Country through the stories, landscapes and living knowledge that continue to shape place today.
Guided by a Boonwurrung educator, participants explore significant places and discover the stories, ecological knowledge and cultural relationships that have shaped these landscapes for thousands of years. Each walk is tailored to its location.
Transforms familiar places into spaces of discovery through direct experience rather than classroom learning.
I’m going to take more care to notice my surrounds and be less outcome focused.
Cultural Experiences
Celebrate culture through movement, story and the living traditions of Boonwurrung ceremony.
Brings together movement, music and cultural storytelling to honour Boonwurrung traditions while welcoming audiences into shared celebration and connection. Suited to conferences, community events, festivals and school celebrations.
Creates a memorable experience that speaks across generations and backgrounds.
Cultural Experiences
Strengthening connection to place through Boonwurrung language.
Supports organisations, schools and communities to respectfully engage with Boonwurrung language through naming projects, language guidance and cultural interpretation, grounded in relationship, consultation and cultural integrity.
Ensures cultural recognition extends beyond symbolic acknowledgement into everyday practice.
Education Programs
A practical professional learning journey designed to build educator knowledge, confidence and everyday practice.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
Four-Part Learning Series - Bindjirru Bindjirru
Build knowledge of Boonwurrung Country, history, culture and language, and learn practical ways to engage with language in everyday early learning.
Seasonal Intelligence
Explore how Country, seasonal rhythm, time, place and capacity shape wellbeing, learning and relationships.
Capacity Informed Practice
Understand changing capacity in children, educators and teams, and how environments and expectations can respond with greater care and flexibility.
Embedding Boonwurrung and First Peoples
Perspectives into Early Learning
Move beyond one off activities and build culture into curriculum, environments, relationships and everyday educator practice.
Education is shaped by more than what we teach.
It is shaped by Country, culture, relationships, rhythm, environment and the capacity people bring into each day.
Early learning services and schools are increasingly seeking meaningful ways to embed First Peoples perspectives, strengthen cultural safety, support wellbeing and create environments where children and young people can flourish.
Our professional development brings these areas together.
Through Boonwurrung knowledge, Seasonal Intelligence™, Capacity Informed Practice™ and culturally responsive education, educators build the knowledge and confidence to understand the places they teach on, recognise changing capacity, work with natural rhythms and embed culture meaningfully into everyday learning.
The goal is not simply to know more.
It is to notice differently, respond differently and create learning environments where children, young people, educators and communities can flourish.
Education Programs
Discover the living knowledge, stories and spirit of Boonwurrung Country.
Introduces participants to the history, language, stories and living culture of the Boonwurrung people through storytelling, conversation and interactive learning. Designed for learners of all ages.
Creates authentic cultural understanding through story and relationship, rather than dates and facts.
Jaeden was so generous with his time, wisdom, and vision for the future. I was captivated throughout his presentation… [it] was impactful and moving.
Education Programs
Learn to read Country through the changing rhythms of the six Boonwurrung seasons.
Participants learn how plants, animals, weather and human activity respond to the living rhythms of Country, rather than fixed calendar dates.
Builds environmental understanding through local Indigenous knowledge and observation.
We walked away with so much more than knowledge! Jaeden inspired motivation to create real change for ourselves, our children and families.
Education Programs
Our flagship cultural immersion program.
Biik Bundjil's signature education program, building deep and lasting relationships with Boonwurrung culture over multiple sessions. Students journey through language, storytelling, art, seasonal knowledge and cultural practice, each session building on the last.
Provides a sustained learning journey rather than one-off experiences, for schools embedding First Peoples perspectives across the curriculum.
Education Programs
Supporting wellbeing through connection, belonging and relationship.
Introduces students to wellbeing through Boonwurrung perspectives, exploring belonging, identity, emotional awareness and relationships, rather than focusing only on behaviour.
Provides practical, culturally grounded ways of strengthening belonging and emotional wellbeing.
My daughter was not feeling sure about coming today with new children in a new library... but is a changed kid. She is absolutely glowing after her morning.
Education Programs
A whole-school celebration of Boonwurrung culture.
Engages multiple Boonwurrung and First Peoples practitioners through workshops, storytelling, language, art, ceremony and interactive activities across a full day of learning.
Creates a memorable whole-school experience that leaves a lasting impact on students, educators and families.
Framework Workshops & Professional Learning
Rethinking time through the rhythms of Country.
Explores how observing natural cycles can reshape planning, leadership, wellbeing and organisational culture, moving beyond constant urgency towards healthier rhythms.
Provides a practical framework for understanding time as relationship rather than schedule, for workplaces struggling with burnout and reactive planning.
Learning Boonwurrung knowledge was really refreshing, and I felt like I got the chance to be a human for once... [the] fast-paced urgency of modern life… scarcely gives us a chance to process, to breathe in Country.
Framework Workshops & Professional Learning
Creating the conditions that help people flourish.
Explores how the conditions surrounding people influence behaviour, decision-making, wellbeing and performance — shifting from "what's wrong with people" to "what conditions are shaping capacity."
Provides a practical language for building supportive environments rather than expecting people to just work harder.
It challenged us to think differently about leadership, organisational wellbeing and the systems we create around educators… he offered a fundamentally different way of understanding ourselves, our relationships and our work through the enduring wisdom of Aboriginal knowledge systems.
Framework Workshops & Professional Learning
Understanding relationships as the foundation of healthy human systems.
Explores the invisible patterns influencing trust, communication, belonging and human behaviour, with practical ways to strengthen relationships.
Healthy organisations are built on healthy relationships; provides frameworks for strengthening connection across teams and leadership.
Framework Workshops & Professional Learning
Embedding Country into everyday practice.
Explores practical ways to embed Boonwurrung knowledge into learning environments, workplaces and organisational culture, showing how place influences identity, belonging and wellbeing.
Moves beyond symbolic acknowledgement towards meaningful, lasting cultural practice.
Jaeden’s warmth comes through from the very beginning… You feel as if Jaeden is speaking directly to your heart, and I was in a group of over a hundred people who probably felt that way too.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Develops practical approaches that strengthen cultural capability while keeping Country and Boonwurrung perspectives central to decision-making.
It gave me a greater sense of pride in my teaching and a drive to embed the land and its history/importance into my classroom.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Practical cultural guidance supporting respectful engagement and informed decision-making grounded in local knowledge.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Supports strengthening understanding of Country, developing practical actions and creating learning and relationship-building opportunities throughout the RAP journey.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Supports schools, organisations and communities to develop place-responsive learning reflecting the Boonwurrung Country they operate on.
I’m going to take more care to notice my surrounds and be less outcome focused.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Works alongside architects, designers, councils and developers to explore how Country, story and cultural knowledge can inform the design of spaces and places, from the beginning of a project rather than at the end.
Strategic Advisory & Consultancy
Supports leaders to explore relationships, organisational culture, wellbeing and long-term decision-making through the Body of Knowledge. Tailored to executive teams, boards and senior leadership.
Embed the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge into the heart of your organisation.
Meaningful organisational change doesn’t happen through a single workshop. It develops through ongoing learning, practical application and long-term relationships.
Biik Bundjil’s Organisational Partnerships are designed for organisations wanting to move beyond one-off cultural experiences and begin embedding the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge into leadership, education, organisational culture and everyday practice.
Each partnership provides structured access to our frameworks, professional learning and implementation support, helping organisations create healthier people, stronger organisations and thriving communities.
Whether you’re beginning your journey or embedding these ideas across an entire organisation, our partnerships provide a clear pathway for meaningful and lasting change.
5 experiences in this pathway
Ideas that change the way people think about Country, culture and healthier human systems.
Some presentations are remembered for a moment. Others continue shaping conversations long after the audience has left the room.
Grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge and the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge, Jaeden Williams-Briggs delivers keynote presentations that challenge audiences to rethink relationships, leadership, education, time and human flourishing.
Combining storytelling, lived experience, practical frameworks and deep cultural knowledge, every keynote is designed to inspire meaningful reflection while providing practical ideas that participants can immediately apply within their organisations and communities.
Whether speaking to educators, executives, government leaders or community organisations, every presentation creates an invitation to think differently.
Organisations engage Jaeden when they are looking for more than cultural awareness.
His presentations introduce original frameworks that help audiences better understand the relationships between Country, culture, time, leadership and human flourishing while creating meaningful conversations that continue well beyond the event.
Every keynote is tailored to the audience while remaining grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge and practical application.
4 experiences in this pathway
Experience Boonwurrung Culture Through Story, Ceremony and Connection to Country
Every cultural experience offered by Biik Bundjil is grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge and designed to create meaningful relationships with Country, culture and community. Whether welcoming guests onto Country, walking together through significant landscapes or sharing stories that have been carried across generations, each experience invites participants to move beyond awareness towards genuine understanding.
These experiences can stand alone or become the beginning of a deeper journey through the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge.
6 experiences in this pathway
Inspiring curiosity, deepening relationships and bringing Boonwurrung knowledge into everyday learning.
Education is where relationships begin. Every Biik Bundjil education program is designed to help learners move beyond information towards connection - connecting with Country, culture, community and themselves.
Grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge and aligned with contemporary educational practice, our programs create meaningful learning experiences that inspire curiosity, strengthen belonging and encourage students to see the world through a different lens.
Whether delivered as a single workshop or as part of a longer learning journey, each program is interactive, engaging and tailored to the age and learning context of participants.
6 experiences in this pathway
Bringing the Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge into organisations through practical learning experiences.
The Biik Bundjil Body of Knowledge is an interconnected collection of frameworks grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge and developed to help create healthier human systems.
Our Framework Workshops introduce organisations to practical ways of understanding relationships, time, culture, conditions and human flourishing through the lens of Country. Rather than simply building cultural awareness, each workshop provides practical frameworks that participants can immediately apply within leadership, education, organisational culture and everyday practice.
Whether experienced as a standalone workshop or as part of a longer learning journey, every session is designed to inspire new ways of thinking while creating meaningful and lasting change.
4 experiences in this pathway
Guiding organisations, projects and places through culturally grounded strategy, advice and decision-making.
Every organisation is different.
Some are developing a Reconciliation Action Plan.
Some are designing a new building.
Others are rethinking curriculum, leadership or organisational culture.
Biik Bundjil works alongside organisations to ensure decisions are informed by Boonwurrung knowledge, cultural integrity and meaningful relationships with Country.
Rather than providing one-off advice, our approach focuses on building capability, supporting thoughtful decision-making and creating long-term cultural value.
6 experiences in this pathway
Why organisations
Biik Bundjil works alongside organisations to develop practical approaches that strengthen cultural capability while ensuring Country and Boonwurrung perspectives remain central to decision-making.
Whether developing a long-term strategy or supporting a specific project, every engagement is grounded in collaboration and cultural integrity.
Frequently asked questions
Biik Bundjil is a Boonwurrung-led cultural education organisation. Our work is grounded in Boonwurrung knowledge, lived cultural practice, family, Country and ongoing relationships with community.
Every experience is approached with care, cultural responsibility and respect for the knowledge, stories and cultural practices being shared.
Yes. We offer education pricing across selected experiences for early learning services and schools.
Eligible Victorian early childhood services may also be able to access selected Biik Bundjil programs through School Readiness Funding.
Yes. Biik Bundjil works with organisations, schools and communities across Victoria and Australia.
Travel requirements and associated costs are discussed as part of the booking process.
Yes. Every organisation and community is different.
Experiences can be tailored to your audience, location, learning goals and organisational context while maintaining the cultural integrity of the work.
Yes. You can choose one experience or bring several together to create a tailored program.
Cultural experiences, education programs, professional learning, keynotes and advisory can be combined around the needs of your organisation.
Yes. Biik Bundjil offers ongoing organisational partnerships for organisations wanting to move beyond a single experience and embed this work over time.
Our Begin, Embed and Flourish pathways provide different levels of professional learning, frameworks, strategic support and ongoing partnership.
Start with a conversation. Tell us about your organisation, audience and what you are hoping to achieve, and we can help you identify the right experience or combination of experiences.
Enquiry
Whether you're planning a cultural experience, building staff capability or exploring a long-term partnership, we'd love to hear about your organisation and how we can help.