Healing Grief, the Aboriginal Way!
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~1 DAY WORKSHOP~ HEALING GRIEF, THE ABORIGINAL WAY! How to use loss & grief to enhance bi-cultural awareness, safety & inclusion for Aboriginal people to access mainstream services. This workshop is for Aboriginal & non- Aboriginal Service Providers – using loss and grief to enhance your awareness of the needs of Aboriginal individuals so inclusion is uncomplicated and is culturally safe for all! Course Date: TUESDAY 29th MARCH, 2016 Course Cost: $242.00 Course Venue: TBD (Adelaide) Australian Institute for Loss and Grief c/- 10 Cowie Street, Ethelton 5015 P: 8341 5557 M: 0438 203 032 F: (08) 8242 2690 E: [email protected] W: www.lossandgrief.com.au EXPECT TO BE INFORMED, CHALLENGED AND INSPIRED! without any shame or blame due to loss and grief is a “…Create safety for the individual and the community will human experience. follow…” . The Seven Phases is the foundations to building bi- cultural awareness, safety so as inclusion is uncomplicated. WHY WE NEED A UNIQUE & . Describe Contemporary reality: what are the major social, emotional, physical diseases and disorders INNOVATIVE LOSS & GRIEF permeating many Aboriginal communities? . Discuss traditional cultures and the strict systems they MODEL developed to maintain inter-generational social, emotional and physical well-being. Government and NGO’s can design and legislate against all . Discuss invasions/colonization’s and the destruction of forms of discrimination and racism however it may not Ancestors strict systems causing inter-generational change people’s attitude. We believe using loss and grief will social, emotional, physical diseases and disorders: change people’s attitude! In the first instance this workshop 1788 Aboriginal ancestors first contact with the will explain how loss and grief will un-complicate what’s troopers (police), courts and prison systems. commonly referred to as the ‘Aboriginal disadvantage’ and Understanding inter-generational Grief Fear that ‘there’s actually nothing wrong with us as a people, we’re . Basic theory of loss and grief (see course outline): only grieving!’ This workshop is for Aboriginal and non- How to dismantle historical and contemporary Aboriginal service providers who are working with or have a beliefs, concepts, understandings and practices desire to work with Aboriginal people and their communities. pertaining to ‘racism’: how not to fear it! Similarly, for those who are interested in acquiring a deeper . Basic Strategies for Change: and more meaningful understanding how to apply loss and How to use body language to create calmness grief to move beyond awareness, so as to create and value but assertiveness when necessary safety for the Aboriginal individual and the service provider. Reclaiming Intuitive Intelligence In so doing it has greater potential to create inclusiveness for all. This workshop compliments the skills you bring to the training however you will leave with newfound beliefs, DELIVERY WILL SUPPORT concepts, understandings and practices so expect to be PARTICIPANTS informed, challenged and inspired! Handouts; NEEDS OF THE PROGRAM Loss & Grief / Strategies Booklet Small and large group discussions; . The Program is limited to a minimum of 16 as this allows for personal group instructions and debriefing and a COSTS maximum of 20. The program could be delivered regionally, intrastate or interstate. Course duration: 8.30am registration/meet & greet . BYO lunch - to keep cost down full catering is not 9am start – 5pm finish. available – morning & afternoon tea available. ONE DAY METRO INTRA-STATE INTER-STATE . Registration forms per participant. ADELAIDE PER $242.00 $297.00 $352.00 PERSON OBJECTIVES MINIMUM 10 16 16 NUMBER . Present the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief as the unique and innovative model to healing grief the Aboriginal way – from lived experiences is delivered 1 DAY COURSE OUTLINE What your service might look like after Bi-Cultural Awareness, Safety and Inclusion workshop has been implemented? We come from the perspective that all Government, NGO’s and the private sector have a responsibility to legislate against all forms of ‘isms’ but if they continue to not change service provider’s beliefs, concepts, understandings and practices (attitudes) to these ‘ims’, legislation could be deemed as ineffective. We believe human beings need to have an approach that inspires, what we refer to as, their innate human Intuitive Intelligence (or their humanity) which has greater potential to bring about change willingly and it’ll be just a matter of time before their Intuitive Intelligence will override ones Grief Fear of ‘isms’. What the general public might experience once they know your organization has had Bi-Cultural Awareness, Safety and Inclusion workshops has been implemented? Once the general public are intellectually aware what Bi-Cultural Awareness, Safety and Inclusion workshop deliver to service providers, they are more likely to start feeling mentally, emotionally and physically safe in your organization. Once they become very confident they are safe they’re more than likely going to tell their family, friends and others. We come from the philosophy that service providers respect the individual, the community will follow and go beyond surviving to thriving in their community! TIME SESSIONS 9:00am Welcome/Introduce the Day A Contemporary Reality – Rosemary as a Case Study. Introduce the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss & Grief Model. 10.30am Morning Tea 10:45am TRADITIONAL CULTURES Ngarrindjeri; Kaurna; Adnyamathanha; Kookatha; Pitjantjatjara OUTRIGHT WARFARE European History English History Australian History GERM WARFARE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE Discuss the use of Australian policies, practices & procedures to create inter-generation social, emotional, physical diseases and disorders as noted in contemporary reality De-briefing 1pm Lunch 2:00pm LOSS & GRIEF THEORY Booklet What are Losses? What are Grief Emotions? What is discounting? What are Triggers? Inter-generational racism – how does it happen? Inter-generational grief – how does it happen? 3:30pm Afternoon Tea STRATEGIES to ENGAGE an INDIVIDUAL Booklet How a service provider can use body language that an Aboriginal individual would seek out to assess 5pm their safety in a public setting. Philosophy: Engage an individual and the community will follow! Finish – Statements of Attendance BIOGRAPHY – ROSEMARY WANGANEEN Rosemary is a proud Aboriginal South Australian and her traditional heritage is the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, Koogatha and Wirrangu both of the west coast of South Australia. She is also proud founding CEO of the Sacred Site Within Healing Centre which she founded in 1993 and as it went from strength to strength she registered the Australian Institute for Loss and Grief in 2005. For her to specialize in loss and grief, she was experienced the following: 1. In 1986 she became the national research officer in the Sydney office of the Committee to Defend Black Rights which campaigned to call for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. 2. In 1987 her ‘rock-bottom’ came in a women’s shelter, where she was ready to question: ‘where did my anger, rage and violent tendencies come from? So, from 1987-1992 she was compelled to process her own personal losses and unresolved grief from the sudden death of her mother in 1964 which she became a Stolen Generation child and endured all forms of abuses. 3. Then in 1987 the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was announced in which she became a research officer in the Adelaide Aboriginal Issues Unit in 1988. She strongly believes her non-academic beliefs, concepts, understandings and practices un- complicated what is commonly referred to as ‘Aboriginal disadvantage’. Within 22 years she’s become self-employed, a holistic entrepreneur, clinical loss and grief counsellor, educator and assessor, presenter and author of her unique and innovative model the ‘Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief’ (c). The philosophy of the Seven Phases is ‘there’s nothing wrong with us we’re only grieving’. Some of her proudest moments were receiving accolades such as: The Gladys Elphick Centenary Medal Business Woman of the Year Nomination South Australian of the Year Winner - Community Australian Ethnic Award Nomination State Finalist and Zonta Club of Adelaide – Women of Achievement Award (SA). .