50 YEARS OF DEADLY! 

A VIRTUAL NAIDOC WEEK COMMUNITY GATHERING HOSTED BY YARN BARK.  

FRIDAY 3 JULY 2026 (11:30AM - 1:00PM AEST) | 100% ONLINE | AUSTRALIA WIDE

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 A unique National NAIDOC Week experience designed to move people, challenge perspectives and spark conversations that continue long after the week itself.

WHY THIS EVENT EXISTS

For generations, NAIDOC Week has reminded us of the power that exists in coming together.

For our own mob, NAIDOC Week creates an important space and time to reconnect with what matters most: Culture, Community, Family and the Celebration of Survival.

For non-Indigenous people, it has become an important week of celebration, reflection and recognition across Australia.

For more than a decade, Yarn Bark has contributed to NAIDOC Week through powerful community, organisational and cultural engagement experiences that have reached and impacted thousands of people across both community and corporate settings.

Yet beyond the events, gatherings and visibility, many of us are still left sitting with the same important reality — the growing need for deeper, more meaningful and ongoing connection long after NAIDOC Week itself has passed.

A need for conversations that feel more human.
For connection that feels more genuine.
And for solidarity that continues beyond the boundaries of a single week alone.

In 2026, we invite you to join Yarn Bark’s first Virtual National NAIDOC Week Gathering — a unique national experience designed to bring individuals, communities and organisations together in meaningful reflection as we transition into NAIDOC Week together.

This experience will include:

  • A powerful culturally immersive keynote presentation delivered live / virtually designed to unite hundreds of people and organisations across Australia who are committed to walking a shared path forward together. Participants can expect an engaging, emotionally impactful and culturally immersed experience grounded in storytelling, reflection, practical insights and First Nations ways of knowing, being, doing and connecting. 
  • A meaningful pathway for deeper community contribution, with all proceeds from registrations directly supporting Yarn Bark’s ongoing and under-resourced work through our early intervention, prevention, wellbeing and healing initiatives in community.
  • Access to “The Work After NAIDOC Week” — a unique self-paced 100% online 4-week reflection companion experience designed to support continued conversation, reflection and meaningful practice beyond the week itself.

This gathering presents an opportunity to slow down, reflect more deeply and enter NAIDOC Week with greater intention, connection and shared understanding.

More than simply an online event, this marks the beginning of what will become an ongoing annual national gathering in the years ahead.

THE WORK AFTER NAIDOC

A 4-Week Reflection & Practice Companion Experience

Included with registration, participants will receive access to “The Work After NAIDOC Week” — a guided / self-paced  4-week companion experience designed to continue the conversations sparked throughout this event and NAIDOC Week. 

Through four reflective pre-recorded video conversations hosted by Yarn Bark, accessible via login portal or app on any smart device, participants and organisations will explore themes connected to community, responsibility, truth-telling, meaningful engagement and the ongoing journey forward beyond NAIDOC Week itself.

Rather than overwhelming participants with more information, this experience is intentionally designed to create space to slow down, reflect more deeply and continue engaging with the conversations that matter most.

Each week includes:

  • A guided reflection video
  • Personal reflection prompts
  • Optional team discussion questions
  • Opportunities for continued conversation within workplaces, organisations and communities

Because we know that meaningful change is rarely created through a single event or conversation alone — but through ongoing reflection, honesty, connection and the willingness to continue showing up long after the week has ended.

SUPPORTING COMMUNITY LED IMPACT

All proceeds from this event directly support Yarn Bark’s ongoing community-led wellbeing, prevention, healing and cultural connection initiatives supporting First Nations communities.

This includes work connected to:

  • Burnout and wellbeing support for Aboriginal frontline workers. 
  • Cultural connection programs for Aboriginal Young People. 
  • Community wellbeing initiatives grounded in connection, care and relational practice. 
  • Highly accessible capacity building programs for Aboriginal Fathers. 

By participating in this experience, individuals and organisations are not only contributing to important conversations during NAIDOC Week, but also helping support meaningful work that continues within community well beyond the event itself. All those who attend the event will remain updated on the deeper impact of their investment. 

Facilitator

Will Austin is a proud Peek Woorroong Keerraay Woorroong First Nations Man and Founding CEO of Yarn Bark.

Over the past 12 years, Will has worked across grassroots, government, community-controlled, not-for-profit and consultancy sectors supporting First Nations communities across Victoria and Australia.

His work centres around cultural connection, community wellbeing, trauma-informed practice, cultural mentoring and early intervention and prevention initiatives that strengthen identity, belonging and holistic wellbeing.

A certified Trauma Informed Coach and highly experienced facilitator, Will has spent more than a decade delivering transformative programs, workshops, keynotes and cultural engagement experiences across community, organisational and corporate settings nationwide.

As the son of a Stolen Generations Survivor, Will’s work is deeply shaped by a commitment to healing, truth-telling, cultural revitalisation and creating spaces for people to connect more deeply to the essence and heartbeat of First Nations Culture, Community and Ways of Being.

INDIVIDUAL ACCESS

$147

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UP TO 5 STAFF

$497

Small Teams

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UP TO 25 STAFF

$997

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$1,997

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To purchase packages via invoicing or for organisations with 60+ staff members, please contact us directly at [email protected]

ABOUT YARN BARK

Yarn Bark is a First Nations-led organisation dedicated to supporting First Nations communities and young people to heal, reconnect and realise their inherited strength, wisdom and capacity to live holistically healthy lives through connection to culture, community and Country. Our work is grounded in strengthening resilience against external societal pressures, harmful narratives and intergenerational trauma, while creating pathways toward healing, identity, belonging and collective wellbeing.

At the heart of Yarn Bark is a commitment to fostering deeper and more meaningful relationships between First Nations peoples and non-Indigenous people living and working across Australia’s traditional lands. We facilitate these connections through immersive and transformational experiences that invite participants into the spirit, values, methodologies and lived essence of First Nations ways of being.

Rather than approaching cultural capability as transactional or surface-level learning, Yarn Bark creates spaces for genuine human connection, reflection and relational understanding — forming a deeper foundation for respectful engagement, partnership and shared growth.

Across every aspect of our organisation, Yarn Bark seeks to embody First Nations wisdom, relational practice and deep connection to Country, ensuring our work is not only understood intellectually, but genuinely felt and experienced.

Megan

Wow! Will and the Yarn Bark team! This online course absolutely exceeded my expectations. I had no idea an online course could be experienced as authentically and as engaging as this. I felt like I was there, in the bush having a yarn! Will, you have been so generous in your knowledge sharing and emotional investment and your words have inspired me to push that little bit harder to center Indigenous views and ways of knowing in my organization. Thank you, thank you, thank you, the best investment in my learning I have made in a long time.

Kiah

The training you have provided has been incredible. The way you have incorporated traditional language has been a highlight, it really enhanced the learning experience. The way you invited your audience into your stories and allowed us to reflect on our own connection to the land was an incredible experience. Thank you!

Tara

This learning experience has been excellent and I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to participate and connect with the First Nations stories, memories and history. This learning resource is very valuable and I will revisit often as I continue my learning.

Sarona

Will, I feel deeply privileged to have listened to you share so much knowledge and history in a tender and vulnerable way. The care that you have taken while at times exploring some difficult concepts has not gone unnoticed. Learning the richness of First Nations history and culture from a First Nations person is invaluable, and I'm grateful that you've created a resource which facilitates that. I look forward to revisiting this course in future. Thank you.

Becc

This training has been fantastic, thank you for sharing so openly Will. It has been an insightful, informative and inspirational journey. Thank you.

Shane

It was not the journey I was expecting and I have arrived at a destination different from what I had envisaged, but that destination is so much better.

Louise

Thank you for providing such a thought provoking experience. I admit I began with an expectation of learning more substantial information about first nations political situation and culture, but what I received was something far more cerebral and sensitive, with lessons that can be applied to life in general.

 Louise 

I applaud the presentation style. It's calming, natural and complements the information being presented.

Riya

Thank you heaps Will for taking us along this incredible learning experience. There is so much for me to keep coming back to, and I'm excited to see you review and update as time passes. Your facilitation was so genuine, engaging and warm. You've created a really safe space for learning. Really grateful for the opportunity to access this course.

Nicole

Thank you also for making this a lifelong learning experience.Your actions show us intentional work and energy, and we are forever grateful.

Slavica

Thank you so much Will and Yarn Bark for this outstanding, beautifully conceptualised course. As someone else has already said, it's authentic and from the heart and exactly what is needed. I feel like it can speak to so many people and it's such an amazing window into the culture, history and worldview of First Nations People. I love that it's been filmed in nature, and I loved the emu encounter too, it made everything you were saying so real. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Jason

I came into the course expecting, I admit, to come out with a 'formula' for acknowledging country, but I'm walking away with so much more than I could have imagined!

Pete

Thank you Will for providing this really amazing learning opportunity and experience.
If I had to choose one word to sum it up, it would be "authentic". It really felt like it was coming straight from the heart. The way it was produced really added to this feeling - if it had've been been more polished, I think it would have lost something. 
The pacing was excellent, and each lesson had a clear point and it never felt unnecessarily repetitive.

Nicole

Thank you also for making this a lifelong learning experience.Your actions show us intentional work and energy, and we are forever grateful.

Kelsey

This was genuinely the best training I've ever done and I look forward to taking on board everything I've learnt into my every day life. Thankyou Will!

Chloe

Thank you Will. I really appreciate your wisdom, encouragement and empowerment for Acknowledging County. You speak with such grace, truth and clarity to inspire my journey not only for Acknowledging Country meaningfully, but to continue with more confidence in my connection to First Nations People and Culture. Where there is so much stigmatised fear that pushes a divide, you changed the energy within me to remove hesitation and show up with courage and be empowered in this change through my actions, conversations and connections.

Stephen

Thanks, my brother Will. This was a fantastic course. I have learned more by doing this course than by trying to research alone.You are an amazing man with a beautiful heart. Thanks for your sincerity, vulnerability and honesty.

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