The Walk the Talk Program
Walk the Talk educates and activates students
Phase One: Education, delivered in schools by Enlighten Education.
Phase Two: Action, facilitated by Women’s Community Shelters.
Together, these phases help students move beyond simply understanding respectful relationships and into creating meaningful change within their own communities.
We know education on its own isn’t enough.
Young people can understand what respectful relationships look like. They can learn the language of consent. They can recognise the warning signs of unhealthy relationships and abuse. But what matters is what happens next.
Walk The Talk was designed to bridge the gap between awareness and action.
Through evidence-based workshops, facilitated by expert presenters from Enlighten Education, students explore respectful relationships, consent, gender stereotypes, healthy boundaries and domestic and family violence. Students are supported by Women’s Community Shelters to adopt their local shelter and undertake a year-long service learning project that creates genuine connection and practical support.
Because ending domestic and family violence requires more than awareness. It requires a generational shift in attitudes, behaviours and culture.
Click here for more about how our two phase program could work at your school:
Since 2019, more than 23,000 students have taken part in Walk The Talk.
In 2025 alone:
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6,333 students participated in the program
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100% said they would recommend it to others
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Students generated over $290,000 in community value through volunteer hours, goods and donations
Those numbers matter. But they are only part of the story. The real impact happens in the moments behind the statistics. It’s the student who recognises something in their own relationship isn’t right. The young person who knows, for the first time, what to say when a friend confides in them.The classroom where you can feel the shift as conversations become more honest, informed and respectful.
You may read the winner of the inaugural Walk The Talk awards, Arianna Levy’s, account of what the program taught her here in a profile published by Stellar Magazine.
Click on the video to hear more student voices describe their year of walking the talk.
Walk the Talk Phase 1 and 2
Phase 1
A half day Respectful Relationships workshop for students in year 9 or 10, delivered by Enlighten Education the leading provider of in-school well-being programs.
This bespoke program educates students about the elements of healthy relationships and the nature and characteristics of relationship abuse and coercive control. We teach students how to handle disclosures of abuse and how to seek help. We provide clear and specific instruction about consent and empower students to challenge and respond to damaging and dangerous gender-based stereotypes.
Phase 2
Students work collectively with support from the WCS Education Officer and their Year Advisor as a year group to support their shelter through a range of projects to raise money and awareness. This part looks different in every school.
Participating students have raised money through numerous fundraising activities, created welcome packs, handmade wooden toys for the shelters, grown vegetables, volunteered including landscaping the gardens and renovated a study space in one of the shelters, assisted at gala fundraisers and helped raise awareness in their local communities.
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