Cultural democracy means that everyone’s story is important - socially, legally and culturally. It’s about how to fund government and community advocacy programs to include more storytelling, but most importantly, more truth-telling in meaningful ways. It’s also about encouraging corporations and non-profits to take up that mantle too, without ‘washing’ or ‘co-opting’ a community’s messages and key values. Jack has expertise in how to strengthen your organisational practice and governance for:

• Preventing workplace discrimination - advocacy and support

• The use of constructive and trauma-informed training practice to build organisational resilience

• Social and emotional well-being workplace policy and practice audits for psychological safety compliance

• Violence prevention - how to avoid ‘just a joke’ harms in your workplace and encourage positive team building with humour.

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Cultural democracy is not about what is popular or trending, it’s about community representation and community organisational governance. Jack’s specialty is working on issues of importance for organisations that produce and promote evidence-based practices that intersect with and promote lived expertise.

They are mostly dedicated to research, teaching and learning for 2026. They may still be available to consult occasionally, but on select projects linked to research and organisational governance related to cultural democracy and representation only.