Healing Circle Work in Congo and Uganda

After decades spent developing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Circle Work process that could be delivered to communities across Australia, Jahavel has risen to the challenge of sharing the model in Africa, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and war refugees living in the Nakivale settlement in Uganda.

Jahavel is an Australian company whose mission is to provide Healing solutions that will transform and empower people, communities and organisations.

Jahavel has been delivering Healing Circles for many years and presenting at national and international conferences on the exceptional outcomes being achieved.

Jahavel Healing Circle Work is not a therapy, but therapeutic outcomes are experienced. Healing Circles are suitable for adults of any culture who have suffered trauma. Participants learn to live life in the moment, recognise and understand their own spirituality, and gain the ability to enter the moment to reaffirm themselves.

Jahavel has repeatedly been asked to provide Healing Circles across Australia. However, the distances and time needed to deliver a Healing Circle were sometimes prohibitive.

We identified a better solution: We needed to teach community members to deliver their own Healing Circle Work in their own communities.

The first step was to develop the group session face-to-face Healing Circle Work Facilitator training program. From there, we also put it online to make the training as accessible as possible, no matter how remote the region.

The training came to the attention of members of the Nakivale Rotaract, the only Rotaract Club in the world based in a refugee camp, who contacted us. Seraphin Kighoma, Eric Mupika, and Patrick Issa wanted to learn how to facilitate Healing Circle work within the camp.

Healing Circle Work Facilitators - Eric,Pat and Seraphin

We then had to work out the logistics based on a lack of technology in the refugee settlement. The core challenge of providing training in a Ugandan refugee camp was the lack of technology—notably computers, printers, and suitable bandwidth. Even power to charge a mobile phone was an issue. But by using WhatsApp, the core issues were overcome, and the three men are now delivering the Jahavel Healing Circle process to Congo war refugees.

This was a significant opportunity to show that Jahavel's Healing Circle Work can be shared anywhere, no matter how remote. We are opening a pathway to improved health and well-being in all communities.

We have also been honoured to open the way for Jahavel Healing Circle Work to be delivered on the ground in Uganda's refugee settlements. I know Healing Circles will have an ever-increasing influence in bringing hope and transformation to individuals and communities. 

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