Role models were important to many participants and played a major role in many individuals being able to face and overcome the many adversities they had to face during their lives.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Health
August 27, 2013 by
Although health was not a major concern for most participants, some saw health as an important factor underlying resilience.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Education
August 26, 2013 by
Many participants spoke of education as power and how having an education certainly empowered them as individuals.
Promoting community led solutions to indigenous youth suicide
August 9, 2013 by
I have just received the email below. Last week, I attended an aboriginal healing retreat and had spiritual experiences that confirmed my commitment to helping the Indigenous people of Australia tackle addiction and mental health problems and other consequences of historical trauma.
This email reminds me of the scale of the problem. The video touched my inner soul. I am so happy I have made this commitment. I know the journey ahead is a long one.
Please support this cause, first by sending this blog and the website link out to as many people as possible. Thank you.
An educaring approach to healing generational trauma in Aboriginal Australia
August 5, 2013 by
I was away this weekend in the country at an aboriginal healing retreat, which was an amazing experience. I felt peace in a way that I have not experienced in a very long time. I will blog about this later in the week.
Prior to going on the retreat, I started to look for content on historical trauma, something that I have been thinking more about recently. I have become increasingly aware of the inter-generational trauma which has been experienced by Aboriginal Australian peoples (and indigenous populations of other countries) and which has resulted in social dysfunction, violence, addiction and mental health problems.
It seems to me that far too few people in Australia are aware of the role of inter-generational trauma in producing the above problems.
