For being comfortable with discomfort

What is Whitelight?

Culture

Culture

We believe in the power of collective wisdom to create sustainable culture change. Prioritising lived experiences over imposed solutions, we foster environments of deep listening to inform meaningful cultural developments. We strive for collective ownership and work to strengthen existing cultures while promoting intercultural understanding and shared values where there are perceived differences.

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Innovation

Innovation

Our approach to innovation harnesses new and novel ideas to create lasting, exponential impact. We focus on incremental, adjacent, and disruptive innovation; where incremental innovation occurs organically in healthy cultures, adjacent innovation is incubated in parallel to business as usual and disruptive innovation changes the current paradigm instantly. To address society's most complex challenges we support ambitious leaders with the courage to innovate.

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Co-Design

Co-Design

Our co-design approach engages all relevant stakeholders in the design process to ensure outcomes meet the needs of the collective. With the mantra "nothing about us without us", solutions are designed for, with, and by those most impacted by a problem. While a co-design approach requires skill and patience to navigate, we believe that by redistributing power and embracing diversity, solutions become more meaningful and sustainable in the long term.

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Design Thinking

Design Thinking

Design thinking is a simple framework available to anyone wanting to move from a current state to an imagined ideal future. We have worked with thousands of people from across the world to build their capacity to innovate with the principles, process, and tools of design thinking. Our simple and powerful approach involves the phases Inquire, Ideate, Implement, and Reflect, and key mindsets of empathy, optimism, and experimentation.

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Christian from White Light Education helped headspace to run an amazing conference for our National Workforce. He guided our working group through a co-design process to create the conference as a transformational experience for participants. He helped us build an optimistic, high performing and high affirming culture in our working group that helped us to work together to develop and deliver the event. He worked closely with members of our youth reference group, coaching and supporting them to host the conference and share their stories of mental health challenges and recovery. And he designed and ran a series of hack sessions throughout the conference in which diverse groups from our network gathered to generate ideas to address shared challenges.

Christian received amazing feedback from our working group and from the youth hosts. I would recommend him for any challenge involving bringing people together to reach shared understanding and insight about the way forward.

Ian MacLean
Manager, National Education and Training (2013-2021), headspace

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We believe in the broad potential of design to create positive change. We share our unique design approach with individuals and organisations who have the courage to tackle complex challenges.

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