our events

Our introductory training session is designed for people at all organisational levels with beginner to intermediate understanding of workplace diversity and inclusion.

This 3.5 hour workshop on Tuesday, 25 March, 2025 is designed to help you move beyond sensitivity training and diversity to create real inclusion. Using a nuanced approach to privilege and marginalisation, you’ll workshop the intersections and effects of policies and practice in your workplace, and begin developing tailored structural solutions for your organisation.

This training session will take place on Zoom. Tickets are free for First Nations people and discounted tickets are available for low income folks.

Is your organisation ready to go beyond diversity and inclusion? For this session on April 3, 2025, we’re asking key questions for your next steps.

What are the enablers of intersectional approaches in an organisational context? We go through the key intersectional principles and enablers for intersectional action so that you can create a scorecard for your workplace.

Then, you’ll have the opportunity to discuss next steps with others at the same stage. What are your barriers? How are you addressing them? Your challenge may be someone else’s low-hanging fruit and vice versa.

Please note: these learnings sessions are 90 minutes in length.

For this session on Thursday March 13, we’re exploring colonial assumptions in not-for-profits, for-purpose organisations and progressive movements. We welcome First Peoples from various lands along with migrants and settlers to come together, reflect and listen. 

We often hear people talking about working in decolonising ways — but what does that mean in practice? How does settler privilege and the assumptions of white Western business concepts shape how our organisations are structured and operate? How might we change that?

The session will be co-facilitated by grassroots activist and storyteller Jill Faulkner and intertwine co-founder Ro Bersten. Jill was born in Aotearoa, and has lived on the lands of the First Nations peoples of Australia longer than she has lived on the country of her grandfather, descendant of the Ngati Te Whiti hapu of the Ati Awa iwi. Ro is an immigrant settler descended from Eastern European Jewish refugees.

We look forward to connecting with you and creating new ways of working.

intertwine tackled some big questions in this first panel of our digital speaker series. Jumping off from Hawai’i’s feminist-led COVID recovery plan, we asked: what would an intersectional, feminist COVID recovery look like in Australia?

We were thrilled to have Meriki Onus, co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Tigist Kebede, a culturally inclusive counsellor and founder of “The Coloured Therapist” who has been working with the communities in Victoria’s public housing towers, Hala Nur from the Venny, feminist academic and activist Eva Cox, and sociologist Barbara Barbosa-Neves from Monash University joining our panel.

Throughout 2019, intertwine held bi-monthly networking events for professionals in Naarm working in intersectionality to share successes, discuss challenges and workshop solutions.

Sadly, the global pandemic of 2020 interrupted this face-to-face program but we are investigating ways to recommence this valuable resource-sharing space.

We would also be keen to hear from social change activists and intersectional practitioners who would be keen to run intertwine networking events in other cities.