You asked, we listened — we’re back for round two of Facilitation Training for Human-Centred Leaders in 2026, happening October 19–20! 🚀
Tickets are OUT NOW. Book your spot here: http://bit.ly/4xA4uRR 🔗
Whether you’re an organisational leader, educator, facilitator, or simply someone who cares deeply about creating better spaces for people, this training is for you.
🌟 Build your facilitation toolkit
🌟 Learn how we use anthropology to navigate complex, high-stakes rooms
🌟 Make your workshops more engaging, inclusive, and transformative
🌟 Connect with a crew of values-aligned legends doing powerful work in the world
This isn’t your standard facilitation 101. It’s real, human, and deeply practical.
Habitus
Create; Educate; Change! Habitus runs bush camps, creative programs, training and consultancy for y We talk, teach and listen.
Habitus is a social enterprise that works with young people, parents, schools and communities. We create transformative experiences, connect through stories, learn through play and empower people to become agents of change.
15/06/2026
The point of having Brave Conversations isn’t to ‘solve’ anything. It’s not about building a community of consensus — it’s about creating a community of inquiry, a space where we can collectively make sense of complex experiences and recognise our positions of power.
It’s about resisting the urge to dominate narratives and instead exploring what’s possible when we allow multiple stories to coexist — actively pulling out the ones that are rendered invisible or pushed to the margins.
09/06/2026
I’ve been meaning to post this one for a bit, but we recently had our Facilitation Training for Human-Centred Leaders and it was a cracker!!
What an amazing bunch of incredibly talented and grounded humans.
What really struck me was how present and thoughtful this cohort were. It was such a pleasure to get to know them, and I can’t wait to see how they put it all into practice!
It was also great having my buddies from Talk2MeBro and Transport for NSW come along for the ride!
We were originally going to only hold one of these this year, but we had a massive waitlist, and so we’ve decided to run it again in October…get your tickets now!
https://events.humanitix.com/facilitation-training-for-human-centred-leaders-oct-26
As humans, we have a complicated relationship with knowledge, power, and what it means to be right or wrong. Anthropologist Dr. Monty Badami explains why we should look beyond the binary of "right vs. wrong" to understand how different worldviews serve us. By recognizing that our way isn't the only way, we open ourselves up to learning from others and enriching our conversations.
In a world where automation is becoming part of everyday life, it’s never been easier to hand over our choices, our writing, and even our understanding of the world to technology.
But convenience comes with a cost.
When we stop questioning, reflecting, and engaging deeply, we risk giving away one of the most important parts of being human: our ability to think for ourselves.
Now more than ever, we need to hold onto:
✍Critical thinking — to question what we’re given, not just accept it.
✍Human connection — to understand ourselves, each other, and the world more deeply.
✍Active engagement — to stay present, curious, and responsible for the choices we make.
At Habitus, this is why our work matters.
We help people stay human in a world that keeps asking us to become more automated.
Don’t let convenience replace your capacity to think, feel, and choose for yourself.
02/06/2026
Well, we're back for year two of our Human-Centred Leadership program with the Brain and Mind Centre!
This is a 5 month program that aims to strengthen leadership capability within BMC research teams by supporting researchers who are stepping into leadership roles by equipping them with tools for:
-self-reflection;
-empathetic leadership;
-navigating complexity in teams;
-supporting collaborative research cultures.
We kicked off with our full-day face to face Human-Centred Leadership wrkshop, where we shared stories, played games and just took the time to connect as humans first.
We're about to start 4 months of small group coaching to really embed the idea that reflective practice and peer supported problem solving is where the magic comes from!
I can't wait to see where they go with this, and can't wait to learn so much from their wealth of experience!
Brain And Mind Centre
26/05/2026
Listening to people we disagree with is important, not only for a healthy democracy, but to also expand our own worldview. Unfortunately, a common response nowadays is to "call out" and "cancel" views that make us feel uncomfortable. At Habitus, we believe that, as a society, we need to “call on” one another to really make a difference. And we can’t do that if we are perpetually divided.
There's this thing we like to say at our Brave Conversations workshops: Get curious, not furious. If we can shift from punishment to understanding, we might remember that, as humans, have more in common that we have to divide us.
24/05/2026
A silent team holds crucial information.
When people stop speaking up, it doesn’t mean everything is fine. It often means they’ve learned it’s safer to stay quiet.
The signs can be subtle:
meetings are calm but flat,
feedback only flows top-down,
hard conversations keep getting postponed,
people over-apologise,
and everyone is “nice” all the time.
But silence is not the same as trust.
Healthy teams make room for honesty, challenge and different perspectives — before important things go unsaid.
We’ve become the batteries (and all we had to do was scroll).
You don’t have to post. You don’t have to click. Your attention is enough.
The more time we spend inside the feed, the more disconnected we become from real life, and the more we fuel a system that feeds itself on our attention.
We need less noise. More critical thinking. And a human approach to what really matters.
👇 How do you unplug and reconnect? Drop your thoughts below.
18/05/2026
How do we get curious, not furious?
Monty Badami recently joined Toni Powell on Episode 86 of the S**t Happy Podcast for a thoughtful, funny and deeply human conversation about what it means to navigate a messy, uncertain world.
In this episode, Monty brings his anthropological lens to questions of wellbeing, mental health, conflict, compassion and meaning-making — exploring how we can sit with discomfort, embrace complexity and meet difference with more empathy.
The conversation touches on human complexity, emotional literacy, perfectionism, vulnerability, cancel culture, free speech, conflict, creativity, hope and shared humanity.
At Habitus, we believe meaningful change starts when we stop trying to “win” conversations and start getting curious about what sits underneath them.
Listen to How To Get Curious Not Furious with Monty Badami — Episode 86 here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-get-curious-not-furious-with-monty-badami-ep-86/id1829230570?i=1000756814867
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