Building Human Sustainability for the Future of Work
ASWA is the institutional home of The SUSTAIN Way™ — a practical framework that helps organisations strengthen capability, manage psychosocial risks, develop leaders and create environments where people and performance thrive together.
Pre-Qualified Supplier for local councils, government and organisations.
Building Human Sustainability for the Future of Work
ASWA is the institutional home of The SUSTAIN Way™ — a practical framework that helps organisations strengthen capability, manage psychosocial risks, develop leaders and create environments where people and performance thrive together.
Pre-Qualified Supplier for local councils, government and organisations.
What is The SUSTAIN Way™?
The SUSTAIN Way™ is ASWA’s proprietary human sustainability framework.
Built on seven practical pillars, it helps individuals, teams and organisations:
- Prevent burnout
- Strengthen capability
- Build resilience
- Improve psychosocial safety
- Sustain performance
- Support thriving cultures
Read what course participants have said…
- Build Capability
Qualifications, certifications and professional development. - Transform Organisations
Consulting, advisory and implementation support. - Strengthen LeadershipLeadership development and coaching.
- Manage Psychosocial Risk
Training, systems and governance support. - Create Sustainable Performance
The SUSTAIN Way™ implementation pathways.
Impact Statistics
Organisations Supported
Leaders Developed
Professionals Qualified
Scholarships Awarded
Community Investment
Featured Pathways
Diploma of Wellness Leadership – 11047NAT
This nationally recognised course provides the skills, knowledge and professional qualification for a rewarding career integrating wellbeing into lives, organisations and communities.
Develop a workplace wellbeing strategy – BSBWHS612
This cross-sector course addresses the skills and knowledge required to support the development of a workplace strategy that embeds and promotes wellness, including mental health, to support a just work health and safety (WHS) culture in a workplace. It includes facilitating workforce commitment to implementation and continuous improvement of the strategy, specifically from those in leadership positions. It also involves supporting organisational learning and development to strengthen the workplace culture.
Workplace Mental Health Skill Set
This course equips the learner with the skills and knowledge required to participate in managing psychological health and safety in the workplace and provide support to others in the event of disruption to the organisation or work area. You will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Australasian Sustainable Wellness Academy.
Coordinate Health Wellness Programs – BSBHRM531
This cross-sector course addresses the skills and knowledge required to coordinate programs with a health and wellbeing focus in an organisation or work area. Participants will learn how to identify employee health and wellbeing issues, consult with stakeholders and coordinate, evaluate and improve health and wellness programs.
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid teaches people the skills to confidently help someone who they’re concerned about.
EMBED Wellbeing Series
In order to thrive, individually and collectively, all employees need to have some degree of wellbeing literacy skills. To help you and your people address this, we’ve developed the workshop series in the table below to support embedding of wellbeing across your organisation.
Wellbeing Toolkit
Discover the 8 must-haves for your personal Wellness Toolkit to give you optimum energy levels, mental clarity, inner calm and work-life harmony.
Design your Wellbeing Strategy
This team workshop is perfect for HR and safety professionals, business leaders, managers, and anyone dedicated to crafting a comprehensive wellbeing strategy.
Develop your Wellbeing Program
This workshop is designed for HR professionals, managers, wellness coordinators, and anyone tasked with nurturing a culture of wellbeing.
Flexible Delivery Options
- 100% online on-demand
- Blended online
Facilitator-led online sessions and eLearning - Blended face-to-face
Facilitator-led f2f sessions and eLearning - On-site
Insights for Sustainable Performance
Rejection Can Be Redirection
At some point in life, we all experience the sting of rejection. It can leave us numb, questioning our worth, and wondering whether all our hard work has been for nothing.
In those moments, rejection feels deeply personal. We often see it as a closed door, a failure, or proof that we are not good enough. But what if rejection isn’t the end of the story? What if it’s simply the moment your story changes direction?
Nine Years of Purpose: Capability Creates Confidence. Confidence Enables Action. Intentional action Creates Progress.
Nine years is a significant milestone, and birthdays naturally invite reflection. When I think about ASWA’s journey, I don’t find myself thinking primarily about the courses we’ve delivered, the organisations we’ve worked with or even the Diploma of Wellness Leadership that we pioneered. I think about the people: the leaders who have trusted us with their professional development, the organisations that have invited us into their workplaces, the wellbeing professionals who have taken what they’ve learned and used it to influence others, and the many people whose working lives have been positively affected because someone decided that wellbeing deserved to be taken seriously.
Beyond Wellness Programs: What a Weekend with SES Volunteers and a Lesson from Thailand Taught Me About Human Sustainability
Last weekend was Global Wellness Day. Coincidentally, I spent it attending a Queensland SES Women in Leadership workshop on the Gold Coast, a program developed by volunteers, for volunteers.
As both an SES volunteer and Trainer & Assessor, I was grateful to spend the day alongside an incredible group of women from diverse industries, backgrounds, experiences and life stages. Some were seasoned leaders.















