Our approach
Living Knowledge Network supports Indigenous communities in activating Traditional Knowledge Systems to care for Country and people. We foster communities reviving and using these Knowledge Systems to address the challenges we all face, to create benefits for all.
From our roots as Living Knowledge Network, we've walked alongside Communities for over a decade to revitalise Cultural Fire practice and strengthen the knowledge systems that sustain healthy Country and resilient futures. What began as a movement grounded in cultural responsibility has grown into a national network that empowers Communities to lead with cultural authority in connection with Country.
Today, we're supporting communities to manage their lands autonomously and strengthen livelihoods through multiple applications of Traditional Knowledge.
This includes supporting land access and acquisition, building Indigenous research capacity, advancing industry innovation, improving agricultural and corporate practices, conducting plant and harvesting techniques, delivering cultural food and health workshops, and developing the Living Knowledge Place education platform to support learning in schools and communities.
Living Knowledge Network brings together communities, knowledge systems, and organisations to create outcomes none of us could manage alone.
Together, we're achieving lasting, community-led change. Not just outcomes for today, but knowledge and structures that will sustain future generations.
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“Being able to walk on my own Country — places I have never walked before, but where my ancestors would have — is deeply moving. You can feel their presence out there. When I’m on Country, I reflect on how resourceful our ancestors were. We never took much. We managed the land so it would always replenish, always keeping the next generation in mind. Doing this work makes me feel like I am part of that same cycle of care.”
Rheanne Sandy
Yuggera and Wangerriburra Cultural Fire Practitioner
We are guided by four key focus areas:
Country and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Self-Determined Communities
Leading Change
Growing Sustainably
We pay our respect to the Kuku Thaypan Elders who passed their cultural and ecological knowledge onto Victor Steffensen, Co-founder of Living Knowledge Network, setting him on his life’s journey to revive and practice Cultural Fire.
“The knowledge is in the landscape. The Elders have not passed. The land is an Elder too.”
Victor Steffensen
Tagalaka man and Founder of Living Knowledge Network