Provision of Healing and Wellbeing programs for Aboriginal communities
Goangun Dubuy Life Journaling Program is a program that engages a range of counselling techniques such as Reality Therapy, Journaling, Narrative Therapy, and Meditation enabling participants to record their own life story through voice and digital publishing.
The participants engage in this process as a means to deal with, and come to terms with trans-generational trauma, and the events in their lives affecting their sense of well-being. By engaging in this process, the participant works through issues affecting their personal wellbeing by recording their “Story”.
Post Vention Suicide Program aims at working with communities that have been affected by a suicide. The program is designed to monitor the people considered most at risk of copy cat behaviours, providing them with information and support relating to the range of emotions they may be experiencing.
Aboriginal Healing Circles are designed to encourage women to explore, understand and improve their state of physical and mental wellbeing by re-connecting to their Aboriginality and spirituality. The Healing Circles focus on the fact that Aboriginality and spirituality are connected and can be combined to improve our sense of wellbeing, thus healing us from past traumas. The aim is to reconnect our Aboriginal people with their spiritual self, and develop a connection to their land.
Wadjahla Stick Program provides Aboriginal people who are currently incarcerated with the opportunity to connect with their families during term of their imprisonment. The aim is to provide Aboriginal Inmates with the means and the support to record messages to family for the purposes of maintaining links with loved ones whilst they are completing their time in prison.
Aboriginal High School Meditation Program is run across the Northern River’s Area. The purpose is to teach meditation to Aboriginal students as a form of relaxation, with the primary goal being able to assist students in understanding and addressing behaviours that are affecting their school and educational outcomes. Meditation provides the opportunity for participants to also understand then address their personal issues in a third person if necessary, and it creates a safe process to explore alternative outcomes for issues that they may or may not have control over. However, given the power of positive thought and intent, the meditation process can build self esteem and create significantly better outcomes for Aboriginal people.
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