A new cultural safety card deck by BlakIgnited is challenging organisations to confront the blind spots that continue to shape Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' experiences in workplaces, classrooms and institutions.

BlakIgnited is a 100 per cent First Nations-owned and led consultancy focused on honouring culture and reclaiming identity by challenging inequitable systems for mob and reshaping mindsets for the benefit of the next generation of First Nations peoples.

The fifth edition of BlakIgnited's card deck series, What You Didn't Consider..., is a practical cultural safety resource encouraging structural change in workplaces, classrooms and institutions. Launched this January, the card deck is designed to drive accountability and reflection.

"This is not a comfort tool. It is a clarity tool," reads the card pack's description.

"If your organisation is serious about moving beyond performative inclusion and towards genuine cultural safety, this deck helps you see what has too often gone unseen."

Tammy Baart, a proud Dharug woman of the Boorooberongal clan and owner of BlakIgnited, spoke with National Indigenous Times about the release and what it hopes to achieve for mob.

"I created 'What You Didn't Consider' out of what I witnessed with organisations that were generally trying to do the right thing, but they just didn't consider the repercussions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples," she explained.

"What we found was that there was still this gap between those people who are coming with the right mindset, but operationally, there's still a disconnect."

The card pack aims to bridge this gap, including a variety of resources designed to prompt reflection, accountability and cultural safety in practice.

It includes blind-spot cards covering issues such as microaggressions, cultural dismissal, identity policing, tokenism, delayed responses to racism, and the absence of cultural safety planning. It also contains practical accountability prompts and a comprehensive glossary explaining critical concepts such as cultural load, cultural gaslighting, racial weathering, and cultural extraction.

Ms Baart said the cards may be confronting for non-Indigenous people, but believes discomfort is a necessary driver in accountability and real change.

"There's definitely going to be some things that challenge people here, and I want people to normalise discomfort and lean into that, because that's where the growth and the change happen," she said.

"So it's not about giving ourselves a pat on the back. It's about stretching, not tearing, nudging a little bit more and going, 'Oh God, I gotta make sure that I consider that', and that will be quite confronting for a lot of people.

"People don't know what they don't know, particularly if it's outside their lived experience. But that's not an excuse, right?"

The card deck is intended to shift awareness into action, driving authentic structural change.

"This is just a tool that can help move people into increasing their understanding, their vision, and it can be a great discussion starter - 'Why is this? Tell me more,' and then for staff, what can I do then to support them?"

"So it's about making change, not just knowing and understanding, but doing something differently to be able to help create cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples," said Ms Baart.

At its core, 'What You Didn't Consider...' is underpinned by Ms Baart's motivation to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are seen, valued and supported in all spaces.

"One of my vision and purpose-led missions for BlakIgnited is for mob to be able to walk into an organisation and see themselves as assets," she said.

"But I want the organisation, the leaders, to be able to see what strengths they bring, what lived experience, what knowledge is different, that can support and complement the work that's already done."

Ms Baart says that these resources are vital to build a better, more inclusive future for young mob.

"We do this for the next generations to come, that's how we become good ancestors. I really hope that more people get on board with some of these resources to be able to move that needle and lean into connecting with us and engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people," she explained.

"My children, our children, need to know that they're safe in the workplace in the future, that they can walk in and be seen as a vital, pivotal professional and not be seen as a deficit.

"It's about transforming and connection, and that's the key here - that we actually can do better together, and when we walk with each other, we can make a huge difference."

For more information, or to purchase 'What You Didn't Consider', visit BlakIgnited.