Canela Studio partners with community services organisations — family violence, settlement, homelessness and disability — to design learning that changes practice, not just awareness.
Investment. Engagements typically range from $4,500 (learning discovery sprints) to $55,000 (full eLearning suites). Every project is fixed-price — you know the full investment before we begin, with no hourly surprises.
Service 1 From single modules to full induction pathways. We map learning to the real actions your workforce needs to take — using evidence-based design and trauma-informed, culturally responsive practice. Every project includes evaluation design, so you can show funders what changed — not just who attended.
Formats: Rise 360 eLearning, blended programs, onboarding pathways, practice guides. Book a 30-minute learning challenge call
Service 2 Workshops designed to be delivered — by us, or by your team. Every engagement leaves you with usable kits: facilitator guides, slide decks, activities and handouts your staff can run without us. Capability transfer is the product.
Formats: workshop design + delivery, train-the-trainer programs, facilitation kits. Book a 30-minute learning challenge call
Service 3 Learning built with the communities it serves, not just about them. We run culturally safe co-design processes with lived-experience advocates, bilingual workers and community members — so your training reflects reality, not assumptions.
Formats: co-design sprints, community consultation, lived-experience integration. Book a 30-minute learning challenge callCapability building that meets people where they are and strengthens practice where it matters.
View learning workPrograms, resources and reflective methods that strengthen safety, wellbeing and cultural responsiveness.
Explore servicesMethods that centre lived experience and cultural knowledge in design, research and evaluation.
Read field notesA live country-context tool for family violence practitioners working with migrant and refugee communities. Built to support safer questions around disclosure, family pressure, migration risk and LGBTQIA+ support pathways.
The work is the proof: eLearning suites, onboarding pathways, facilitation kits, case studies and decision tools designed for social sector teams. Client names are anonymised in line with our confidentiality commitments to organisations working in sensitive sectors. References available on request.
01 A frontline family violence organisation needed eLearning that could reach workers across diverse cultural backgrounds, varied English literacy levels and different devices.
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02 A hybrid learning ecosystem that connected online modules, face-to-face training, LMS migration and internal capability building.
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03 A five-module inclusive practice suite built on Bloom’s Taxonomy and Kirkpatrick evaluation so workers could apply principles in real casework.
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05 A staged onboarding pathway that shifted induction from a document dump into Welcome, Context, Capability and Integration.
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07 A referral decision-tree scenario where workers practise judgement under pressure instead of answering a flat multiple-choice quiz.
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18 A co-design workshop bundle with slide deck, participant workbook and facilitator guide, structured around trauma-aware delivery.
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N A design case study showing how a private notes app became a discreet safety and service-navigation tool for CALD survivors in Victoria.
View case study Q An interactive country-context atlas that helps practitioners ask safer questions around disclosure, family pressure, migration risk and LGBTQIA+ support pathways.
View case studyEvery project starts with context and ends with tools people can use without us in the room.
01 Begin with people, context, constraints and what the organisation already knows.
02 Turn policy, practice and lived experience into a structure teams can work with.
03 Create curriculum, workshops and resources with clear learning architecture.
04 Prototype language, sequence and activities with the people who will use them.
05 Support facilitators, leaders and practitioners to carry the work confidently.
06 Deliver guides, methods and evaluation tools that keep working after the project ends.
Field notes are where Canela documents what becomes visible in workshops, co-design rooms, training rollouts and community-centred research. They are observations about learning, power, culture and implementation.
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Essay Who speaks when the machine speaks? On feminism, automation and the social sector. 22 min read. 
Essay A feminist lens on artificial intelligence Power, governance and responsible adoption in the social sector. 
Essay What I actually learned about AI fluency The 4D framework, a cultural critique, and where to begin. 
Practice What culturally safe learning looks like in practice Notes on environment, language, pacing and repair. 
Reflection Why co-design is not a workshop, it is a relationship Methods for trust, consent and shared authorship. 
Field notes Listening first: what teams already know before the curriculum arrives. Observations from practice-facing learning work. 
Learning design Learning design that reaches the people your sector has not reached yet Designing for access, trust and practical use. 
Clarity is the most generous thing you can give someone.
I'm a learning designer, trainer and visual communicator with over 8 years of experience across the social sector. I founded Canela after years of seeing how powerful clear, beautiful design can be, and how rarely organisations doing important work have access to it.
My work is shaped by deep experience with multicultural communities, trauma-informed practice and the belief that complex ideas deserve human communication. Based in Melbourne, I work with NGOs, nonprofits and public sector teams across Australia and beyond.
No pitch, no obligation. Bring your training challenge — messy is fine — and leave with a clearer picture of what would actually shift practice.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Available for remote projects worldwide
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