ABORIGINAL WOMEN’S BUSINESS

A Weekend Gathering for All WOMEN Lightning Ridge NSW

Come and share in Women’s Business with Aboriginal women facilitating this two-day workshop in Lightning Ridge in western NSW. All women are invited and welcome to share and learn.

We will share and care together as women in Australia, a land of ancient knowledge and wisdom. Women’s business covers everything that women do in life… in taking care of Law, Country, relationships, family, children, story, history and the Tjukurpa (dreaming). You will learn what is special about Aboriginal women and their business. We share food, create Gathering, Talking and Healing Circles where we will talk, laugh, sing and enjoy ourselves together. We will create a headband for ceremony, you will learn traditional dances, songs and share about life, love and Aboriginal Law, Spirituality and Culture and Inma – ceremony.

CONTACT and BOOKING INFORMATION VENUE: The Hungry Spirit 574 Wooloroo Road Lightning Ridge NSW 2834

DATE/TIME: 5 pm Friday 6 September 2019 to 4pm Sunday 8 September 2019

CONTACT FOR INFORMATION

Ms. Franny Peters-Little E [email protected] w www.jlf.org.au

Dr. Tjanara . Mobile: 0458 239 480 E [email protected] W www.firda.online

PREPAID TICKETS CAN BE BOUGHT ONLINE VIA EVENTBRITE www.eventbrite.com.au

OR TURN UP AND PAY CASH ON THE DAY. $25 1 day $50 2 days.

Please bring food to share and book your own accommodation in Lightning Ridge. Information is available at www.firda.online/events When you buy a ticket from Eventbrite you will receive an email with all the information you need for the Gathering.

All proceeds from this Gathering go to the Foundation for Indigenous Recovery & Development Australia to support our volunteer programs of healing and recovery for First Nations families and communities.

FOUNDATION FOR INDIGENOUS RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT, AUST. (FIRDA) & THE JIMMY LITTLE FOUNDATION

Aboriginal Women’s’ Business Circle Facilitator: Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng PhD

Tjanara is a Wulli Wulli Traditional Custodian (from Central Queensland) with family cultural ties to the Yankunytjatjara of Uluru Kata Tjuta NT through her adoptive grandmother Barbara Tjikatu and Kummunara Randall. Tjanara has been sharing Aboriginal Women’s Business Gatherings for non-Indigenous and Indigenous women since 1996. Tjanara brings years of learning her Law and business from her clans to these workshops where she creates Circles of learning and sharing so that all women who attend can experience what Aboriginal Women’s Business is about – through teaching traditional dances, sharing language through songs, creating headbands for ceremony together, holding a Inma – ceremony at the end of the workshop to create a community of women’s wisdom together. These workshops are fun, informative of Indigenous culture, history and knowledge and the importance of women’s business in our lives, our relationships and with ourselves. The Foundation for Indigenous Recovery & Development, Australia sponsors Aboriginal Women’s Business workshops nationally and internationally to support an increase in knowledge, sharing and awareness of First Nations’ people’s knowledge systems and engages with non-Indigenous peoples to assist understanding and respect in all our relationships, work and lives. We support the inclusion of ngungkari traditional medicine healers in the health system and train non-Indigenous professionals in how to work with Indigenous peoples in Australia. Tjanara is the Founder and National Convenor. www.firda.online

Frances Peters-Little. Chair of the Jimmy Little Foundation is a Yuwaalaraay woman who has been instrumental in recording, documenting and sharing culture, history and stories most of her life. The Jimmy Little Foundation acknowledges the traditional lands and its owners and the contribution of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, both past, present and future. The Foundation is a not for profit charitable institution with DFR (tax exempt) status, and is able to take donations from individuals, corporate sponsors and private companies. The Foundation’s VISION is to improve the quality of life for . Its PURPOSE is to strive for excellence in health care for Indigenous Australians. The Foundation’s APPROACH is to partner with Federal, State and Territory governments, statutory and peak health bodies, corporate, NGOs and not for profit organisations. www.jlf.org.au

is providing the space for this Gathering. Accommodation is available at the Hungry Spirit. You can book via these links: https://thehungryspirit.com/stay/ OR https://youcamp.com/view/the-hungry-spirit- garden-camp