PACIFIC-LED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Training built
for genuine
change.
The Va'a Framework training suite delivers structured, Pacific-led capability building for organisations working with and for Pacific communities. From a single workshop to a multi-cohort leadership program, every format is grounded in Pacific knowledge systems and designed to produce lasting change in how your organisation operates.
Training Formats
Va'a Foundations
Entry-level workshop. Teams and whole-of-organisation.
Va'a Executive
Senior leadership briefing. Boards, CEOs, executives.
Va'a Leaders
Multi-cohort or 1:1 leadership program with coaching.
Va'a Women
Coaching for Pacific, Indigenous, and Multicultural Women
WHY THIS TRAINING EXISTS
Cultural awareness training is not enough. It never was.
Most organisations running cultural training are offering content, not capability. A one-day awareness session might build goodwill. It does not build the relational understanding, systems literacy, or sustained practice required to work meaningfully alongside Pacific communities.
The Va'a Framework training suite is different. It is structured around five pillars developed from within Pacific knowledge systems, grounded in scholarship, and tested across government, health, education, justice, and community contexts. It is professional learning that takes Pacific methodology seriously, and asks organisations to do the same.
We do not build training for organisations to tick a box. We build it to change how they work.
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Choose the format that fits where your organisation is now.
Every program draws on the Va'a Framework's five-pillar methodology. Formats range from a half-day executive briefing to a multi-cohort leadership program. All are available as standalone engagements or as part of a longer organisational transformation.
Va’a Foundations
The recommended starting point for most organisations. Va'a Foundations introduces the Va'a Framework methodology across a one or two-day facilitated workshop, designed for teams, leadership groups, or whole-of-organisation capability uplift. It establishes the cultural foundations, relational understanding, and shared language required for any genuine change to follow. Available as a standalone program or as a gateway into deeper engagements.
One or two days Teams and leadership groups In-person or hybrid
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THE ENTRY - LEVEL WORKSHOP
Va’a Experience
A focused half-day briefing and facilitation for CEOs, executive directors, and boards. Delivers the Va'a Framework analysis in the strategic language and format senior leaders require. The entry point for institutional consulting engagements and the right starting place when leadership commitment needs to come first.
Half day Executive Teams and boards In-person
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
EXECUTIVE
COACHING
WOMEN
Senior Leadership Briefing
Va’a Leaders
An intensive leadership development program structured around the five Va'a pillars. Includes in-person intensives, peer learning circles, and one-to-one coaching. Designed for Pacific leaders navigating institutional environments and for non-Pacific leaders building deep cultural capability. Delivered in cohorts to build collective strength alongside individual capability.
Multi-session program Cohort-based Coaching included
Multi-cohort Leadership Development
Va’a 1:1
Individual coaching structured around the Va'a Framework pillars. Available for Pacific leaders navigating complex institutional environments, and for non-Pacific leaders committed to building genuine cultural capability. Delivered by Amanda Moors-Mailei, Bronwyn Williams, or credentialed Moana Collective coaches.
Individual sessions Pacific and non-Pacific leaders Flexible scheduling
Individual Executive Coaching
Va’a Wahine/Women
Individual coaching for Pacific, Indigenous, and multicultural women who lead in community, in institutions, and in the space between. Structured around the Va'a Framework's five pillars and delivered with full cultural competency by coaches who understand the specific terrain these women navigate: cultural taxation, institutional gatekeeping, the weight of being first, and the dual accountability of leading for both career and community.
This is not generic women's coaching rebranded. It is coaching built from inside the knowledge systems, lived experiences, and relational values that Pacific, Indigenous, and multicultural women already carry.
Individual sessions Pacific women Flexible scheduling
Coaching & Mentoring for women who lead
Service Delivery
For any organisation delivering services to Pacific communities in Australia. These sectors share a common problem: Pacific communities are overrepresented in adverse outcomes and underrepresented in culturally safe service design.
Hauora - Health & Wellbeing
Health & Wellness
Mental health
Health departments, hospitals, primary health networks, mental health services, and public health agencies driving system-wide cultural safety, Pacific workforce strategy, and equitable health outcomes across their portfolios.
Ako - Education
Education
Research
Education departments, schools, TAFEs, early childhood services, and universities embedding Pacific learner success, culturally responsive practice, and genuine Pacific inclusion at the institutional level.
Va'a Tūturu
Legal services
Corrections
Justice
Justice departments, courts, corrections agencies, legal aid services, and community safety bodies addressing Pacific overrepresentation through structural reform, culturally safe practice, and system-level accountability.
Va'a Tupu
Settlement services
Social
Housing
Settlement agencies, social services departments, housing providers, family services, child protection, and aged care organisations building genuine Pacific-centred service design, workforce capability, and community trust.
Policy, Research & Governance
For institutions shaping the conditions that affect Pacific communities. The framing here is not service delivery but system design. Pacific cultural capability at this level changes what gets funded, measured, and built.
Federal and State Government Departments
Ministries, departments, and agencies developing policy, programs, and funding frameworks that affect Pacific communities. Includes whole-of-government Pacific capability uplift and APS workforce development.
Statutory Bodies and Local Government
Regulators, statutory authorities, local councils, and peak bodies whose decisions shape the conditions Pacific communities live and work within. Includes procurement, governance, and community engagement practice.
Universities and Research Institutions
Universities, research councils, and academic institutions building Pacific research ethics, culturally responsive methodology, Pacific scholar pathways, and genuine institutional accountability to Pacific communities.
Pacific Engagement & Development
For Australian organisations working in and with the Pacific region. Australia has committed more than $2 billion in development assistance to the Pacific in 2024–25. Organisations in this space need cultural capability that goes beyond protocol awareness into genuine relational practice.
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DFAT-funded programs, NGOs, and development organisations working across the Pacific region. Includes program design, community engagement, co-design methodology, and Pacific-led evaluation.
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Immigration departments, resettlement agencies, multicultural affairs bodies, and labour mobility programs building genuine Pacific-centred settlement pathways, workforce integration, and community belonging.
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Corporates, employers, and industry bodies with Pacific workforces, Pacific supply chains, or Pacific community obligations. Includes workforce cultural capability, community investment strategy, and Pacific leadership development.
The vaʻa is already in the water.
If your organisation is ready to move from intention to practice, we would like to talanoa with you.
Tell us where you are, what you are trying to change, and who you are accountable to.