About Buneen Consulting

Built for BRAVE conversations. Stronger organisations. Safer spaces for all people.

Buneen is a 100% First Nations-owned, purpose-for-profit organisation that makes organisations stronger and safer.

The story

Why Buneen exists

Buneen exists to make organisations safer for their people and stronger in how they work, by improving the systems, structures, communication, and safety that hold an organisation together. It began as the consulting arm of the Buneen Group, formed to strengthen the spaces First Nations people live and work in.

Buneen Consulting is one of three arms of the Group. Dreaming Futures works with young people in care and builds pathways for them. Buneen Employment opens entry-level employment for First Nations people. Buneen Consulting carries the structural work: strengthening the organisations, leadership, and systems those people move through.

The methodology is First Nations-led, and the work is built for any organisation, not only First Nations ones. Buneen strengthens management and leadership systems and structures across an organisation, with one focus at the centre: cultural safety and psychological safety, built together rather than as two separate problems. That work is delivered through Buneen's services and coaching, grounded in Be BRAVE Feel SAFE.

The methodology behind the business

Be BRAVE Feel SAFE.

Be BRAVE Feel SAFE is a unique First Nations-led methodology that builds the brave spaces where cultural and psychological safety actually emerge. Every Buneen engagement is grounded in it: a repeatable practice, not a one-off workshop.

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Purpose

Build the brave spaces where cultural and psychological safety actually emerge, so organisations grow stronger and Indigenous disadvantage ends within a generation.

Values

Our values

Respect for cultural authority

When First Nations people speak on cultural matters, that voice is treated as authoritative. Cultural authority is recognised, not claimed.

Cultural integrity

Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing are non-negotiable.

Psychological safety

People must be able to speak honestly without fear of retribution.

Truth-telling

Honest conversations about harm and responsibility are how trust is built.

Strengths-based practice

Deficit framing is rejected in all forms.

Accountability

Leadership is demonstrated through behaviour and outcomes, not statements.

Care and safety

Culturally and psychologically safe environments are the foundation, not the outcome.

Part of the Buneen Group

Consulting is one part of bigger work.

Buneen Consulting is one of three businesses under the Buneen Group, working together so organisations, workforce, and the next generation reinforce each other.

Buneen Employment
First Nations-led recruitment and workplace readiness.
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Buneen Consulting
Cultural and psychological safety, governance, and systems change.
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Dreaming Futures
Walking alongside First Nations children in out-of-home care. In care, not forgotten.
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All three are built on the Be BRAVE Feel SAFE methodology.

Shawn Andrews with his daughters
The founder
Shawn Andrews
Buneen Consulting was founded by Shawn Andrews, a Mununjali and Migunberri man and the creator of the Be BRAVE Feel SAFE methodology.
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The name

Buneen is the Yugambeh word for Echidna.

An animal that thrives when its environment supports it. Buneen Consulting is named for the same belief: organisations thrive when they are held by culturally safe systems, sound governance, and engaged community.

Work with Buneen

Every engagement is scoped to brief.

To discuss what cultural and psychological safety would take in your organisation, contact Buneen. A senior team member responds within two business days.

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