Healing Circle Work?
- Ara Harathunian
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min read
Many people around the world are becoming more and more interested in how many First Nations Peoples worked towards healing. One way that has been taken up in contemporary society is Healing Circles. The Healing Circle Work (HCW) is only one of many that is practised and taught in Australia.
HCW is being delivered by the Indigenous Wellbeing Centre in Bundaberg for several years and over 500 participants have done the HCW. The participants have been majority Aboriginal but several non-Indigenous people have also gone through and there has been a 97% success rate in the participants' wellbeing and their traumas.
The HCW was developed by Aunty Cheri Yingaa Yavu-Kama-Harathunian, an Aboriginal Traditional Owner and elder of the Taribelang Bunda, Gooreng Gooreng and Kabi Kabi peoples.
Healing Circle Work is intensive. It is not therapy but therapeutic outcomes manifest. It demonstrates Aboriginal cultural ways of doing business “our” way. Participants are motivated to deal with trauma and life challenges with honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, respectfulness, decency and fairness to themselves and to others.
Healing Circle Work addresses:
Stolen Generational Trauma;
Displacement;
Abuse;
Isolation;
Alcohol and other substance abuse and addiction;
Domestic and Family Violence;
Gender issues.
It is delivered in groups of up to 5 to 8 and requires a facilitator/s to operate the group.
Kultchafi has successfully implemented Facilitator training so the methodology can be shared across communities.
Comments