Cultural safety your team can practise on shift.
Six pocket-sized titles and a facilitator's companion for aged care, disability and community care teams. Written for the people doing the work, and for the person who leads them.
One Team Licence covers 15 people. A$299, including GST.
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through Stripe, or an invoice with a pay link. Files by email within one working day. Tax invoice available on request.Why now
From 1 November 2025 the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards ask providers to give all aged care workers regular, competency-based training in culturally safe, trauma-aware and healing-informed care (Standard 2, Outcome 2.9, action 2.9.6). Training days teach it. Practical Allyship is what the team practises between them.
The NDIS Practice Standards ask that each participant accesses supports that respect their culture, diversity, values and beliefs. That happens in the moments your workers are in every day: the greeting, the plan meeting, the home visit, the repair when it goes wrong. Practical Allyship is what the team practises for those moments.
Practical Allyship is not an accredited course and does not make a service compliant. Whether care is culturally safe is decided by the person receiving it.
What you get
Four pocket guides (Cultural Safety Essentials, Everyday Critical Self-Reflection, and two more), the practitioner handbook Creating the Conditions for Cultural Safety, and the Coach's & Facilitator's Companion. PDFs, read on a phone. One licence covers up to 15 people in one organisation.
Store the files and share them with your own staff for internal training, supervision and facilitated sessions, and print copies for licensed users. No resale, sub-licensing or public posting.
How a team uses it
At induction. Cultural Safety Essentials in the first fortnight, one small move named out loud: "This week I will."
In one-to-one supervision. One guide, one page, one question a month.
In a team meeting. The Companion runs a 30-minute session, prompts and all.
Over a term. A project on real work, with the Companion's signs of movement, not a test.
Led with, never instead of
The Companion is built to be led with First Nations co-facilitators, never instead of them. The guides ask your people to turn the lens on themselves: their own culture, assumptions and the power they carry.
What cultural safety is remains for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to define.
Where I stand
I write this as a white practitioner, and I'll say so plainly. Not by way of apology, but as a journeyman: still on the road, doing my own work through personal and critical reflection.
Cultural safety, or kawa whakaruruhau, was named and developed in Aotearoa New Zealand by Irihapeti Ramsden, a Māori nurse and educator, out of a wider movement of Māori nurses and students naming what safe care required. Her call wasn't to learn more about other people. It was to turn the lens back on ourselves: our own culture, our assumptions, the power we carry. And whether care feels safe, she said, is decided by the person receiving it, never by us.
So read these guides as an invitation to that reflection, not a claim to have arrived. The work I'm asking of you, and of myself, is the quieter kind: noticing ourselves.
What cultural safety is remains for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to define. My part, and yours, is the reflection.
Larger service?
The Organisation Site Licence covers unlimited people at one site. A$749, including GST.
Questions
Is it accredited?
No. It is reflective practice and coaching material, not an assessed course.
How is it delivered?
PDF downloads from Payhip the moment the order goes through.
Can we print it?
Yes, for licensed users, inside your organisation.
Can I see it first?
Yes. The six-page free sample of Cultural Safety Essentials is a free download, no sign-up.
Invoice?
A tax invoice is available on request. All prices include GST.