Who we are
Walking With Wisdom offers strength-based workshops that support women and youth to navigate everyday life with clarity, confidence, and emotional resilience.
Our work is grounded in the lived experience and leadership of a proud Aboriginal woman, ensuring a culturally safe and respectful space. While our heart and focus remain with First Nations female youth and women, our workshops also embrace inclusivity — welcoming non-Indigenous participants to walk alongside us in shared growth and understanding.
We believe in the ripple effect — when one person transforms, it strengthens families, communities, and generations to come.
Credentials
I am a qualified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, trained through the globally recognised Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN). My studies included more than 400 lectures and resources from leading experts in health, psychology, spirituality, and coaching. Areas of focus included stress management, sleep, relationships, creativity, spirituality, and the mind–body connection, alongside nutrition and lifestyle science. This training equipped me with practical tools to hold space with compassion, use mindful coaching techniques, and support people in reconnecting with their inner wisdom.
I also hold certification in Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid, which equips me to deliver programs that are culturally safe and trauma-informed. In practice, this means creating environments where Aboriginal women and youth feel respected, supported, and empowered. My approach honours culture, acknowledges the impacts of trauma, and ensures participants can engage at their own pace with emotional safety and trust at the centre.
Together, these qualifications strengthen my ability to deliver Walking With Wisdom workshops that support holistic wellbeing, emotional resilience, and self-leadership.
Meet the Founder – Temple Williams
Temple is the founder of Walking With Wisdom, a grassroots initiative grounded in emotional strength, self-leadership, and deep spiritual insight. She is a proud Aboriginal woman from the Gumbaynggirr Nation (Macksville, NSW) and Anaiwan peoples within the Gamilaroi Nation (Tingha), now based on Worimi Country in Port Stephens, NSW.
With over 30 years in customer service roles—including work across corporate, government, and telecommunications sectors—Temple developed a deep understanding of people, how organisations function, and the emotional patterns that shape how we live and lead. Her work has always been guided by two enduring questions:
“Why can’t anybody tell me how life works?”
“Why do people do what they do?”
Temple’s career journey includes key roles at Telstra and Service NSW, where she built a reputation for collaboration, service excellence, and community engagement. Whether supporting Aboriginal businesses through state-wide programs or resolving infrastructure challenges through grassroots dialogue, her strength has always been her ability to listen deeply, connect genuinely, and lead with empathy.
Over the years, Temple has drawn wisdom from books, conversations, and lived experiences—but each insight ultimately helped her remember what she already knew deep within. This inner knowing became the foundation of her work: creating space for others to gently reconnect with their own truth. One moment that stayed with her was when a university professor she once served said, “People like safe change, Temple.” At the time, it sounded simple—but the phrase lingered. Over time, she came to see that while people long for growth, they often seek it only within the bounds of emotional safety. That reflection helped shape her gentle, intuitive approach to facilitating transformation.
Temple’s most profound growth didn’t come from professional milestones, but from navigating life’s emotional terrain. From the trauma of family separation to the challenge of a cancer diagnosis, she discovered that true wisdom comes from within.
She came to a life-changing realisation: no one was coming to save her or put things right—that work had to come from within.
By choosing to face those emotions long after the original events, she didn’t just build resilience—she uncovered a deep inner strength. That strength now anchors her life and her work.
Drawing on a unique blend of real-world leadership, emotional clarity, and spiritual purpose, Temple created Walking With Wisdom—a transformative initiative offering culturally safe, trauma-informed workshops. While her heart and focus are with First Nations female youth and women, she also welcomes non-Indigenous women and youth into her workshops, fostering inclusivity, reconciliation, and shared growth.
Temple now offers the insights, tools, and emotional clarity she once sought for herself—to those ready to walk forward grounded in their own wisdom.
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