Breaking Trauma Trails: Facilitating the Healing of Indigenous People
Since moving to Australia, I’ve become increasingly saddened, concerned and angered by the way that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are treated by many non-Indigenous people (including...
View Article‘2015 – The Year of Reinventing the Wellbriety Movement’ by Don Coyhis
Don Coyhis posted this powerful message on the White Bison website recently. As some of you know, I think very highly of Don and the amazing Native American Wellbriety Movement. ‘As some of you know, I...
View ArticleBreaking Trauma Trails: Facilitating the Healing of Indigenous People (Part 1)
“Indigenous people possess a gift. This is a gift of healing, strong relationships and a deep connection to land, from a culture that has flourished over many thousands of years.” David Clark and...
View Article“We Shall Remain”
I love this film and song. Says so much and really impacts. It can have a healing influence. ‘WE SHALL REMAIN was created to address the effects of historical trauma in our tribal communities. Many...
View ArticleKey Factors Facilitating Indigenous Healing
When I first developed the educational healing resource Sharing Culture back in 2014, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and historical trauma. I summarised what I considered to...
View ArticleThe Value of Deep Listening – The Aboriginal Gift to the Nation | Judy...
Judy Atkinson is an expert in understanding inter-generational healing and recovery from trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. At the core of this moving talk, she describes her...
View Article“We Shall Remain”
WE SHALL REMAIN was created to address the effects of historical trauma in our tribal communities. Many times, these untended wounds are at the core of much of the self-inflicted pain experienced in...
View ArticleJoe Solanto: Intergenerational Trauma Amongst First Nations People of Canada
In these two film clips, Dr. Joe Solanto discusses what trauma is and how the experiences of colonisation for First Nations peoples in Canada” qualify” as trauma. He describes how trauma is...
View ArticleDon Coyhis: What the Boarding Schools Did to Our Community
Don Coyhis, Founder of the Wellbriety Movement in America, describes Native Indian culture and communities before the issues that arose from intergenerational trauma. This trauma arose partly through...
View ArticleDon Coyhis, Founder of White Bison
I found this great biography of a special Native American, Don Coyhis. ‘Founder, White Bison, Purpose Prize Winner 2009. Coyhis developed Wellbriety, a substance abuse recovery program that taps the...
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