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FNA courses are designed for professionals whose decisions intersect with First Nations rights, authority, and governance in corporate, government, policy, and ESG contexts. Each course builds structural fluency rather than awareness, equipping participants to recognise where legitimacy breaks down, how governance failure occurs, and what accountability actually requires.

Courses can be taken independently or as a structured sequence. Click the image below for more.

What We Offer

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Foundations of Cultural Legitimacy

 
This course examines cultural legitimacy as a structural condition, rather than a personal attribute or engagement outcome. It focuses on how legitimacy is grounded in First Nations rights, cultural authority, and integrity, and why these foundations matter for organisational decisions.

Moving beyond awareness-based approaches, the course clarifies why legitimacy cannot be assumed, generated, or transferred through process alone. It explores where legitimacy commonly breaks down and the risks that emerge when action outpaces authority or understanding.

Designed as a foundational learning experience, the course builds shared language, clarity, and responsibility for professionals working in or around First Nations contexts or whose decisions may impact First Nations peoples and organisations.

Self-paced online course
To complete in one sitting, the time commitment is approximately 90 minutes.

UNDRIP & First Nations Rights and Interests

 
This course builds a foundational understanding of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a governance framework, not a policy aspiration. It examines what UNDRIP actually establishes, how it operates within international and domestic institutional settings, and why the distinction between First Nations rights and First Nations interests carries material consequences for organisational decisions.
Moving beyond awareness-level familiarity, the course addresses where governance misalignment commonly occurs and the institutional, financial, and reputational risks that follow when UNDRIP is referenced without being structurally embedded. It equips professionals to identify the difference between symbolic acknowledgement and genuine accountability.
Designed for those working in ESG, policy, finance, and governance, the course translates First Nations rights into the language of institutional responsibility including how Free, Prior and Informed Consent functions as a governance standard, and how land rights and accountability intersect across investment and regulatory contexts.
Self-paced online course
To complete in one sitting, the time commitment is approximately 90 minutes.

First Nations Governance

 
This course examines governance as a structural system defined by authority, decision-making, and accountability with a specific focus on where First Nations governance intersects with institutional power. It traces how pre-colonial governance systems were disrupted, how authority has been replaced or obscured, and why the contemporary consequences of those interventions remain active in organisational contexts today.
Moving beyond compliance-level understanding, the course interrogates how governance failure actually occurs: through engagement that substitutes for authority, representation that substitutes for legitimacy, and process that substitutes for consent. Drawing on real-world case studies — including the rapid repeal of Western Australia's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act — it builds the analytical capacity to recognise these patterns before they produce institutional, legal, or reputational exposure.
Designed for professionals operating where decisions carry long-term consequences for land, communities, and institutional credibility, the course develops a governance lens that supports clearer decision pathways, stronger accountability, and outcomes that can withstand scrutiny.
Self-paced online course
To complete in one sitting, the time commitment is approximately 90 minutes.

“So succinct and clear. It's made very obvious for our organisation that while we are moving on engagement and representation, our focus needs to be on shifting the ways that power is held and decisions are made.”

– Senior Strategy Director