Aboriginal Suicide Prevention

Through the Lens of Griefology

Presented by: Rosemary Wanganeen
November 7th – 9th 2023
Adelaide, SA

 

Aboriginal Suicide Prevention

Through the Lens of Griefology

Presented by: Rosemary Wanganeen
November 7th – 9th 2023
Adelaide, SA

What is Griefology?

Griefology is the study of the human relationship between (Aboriginal) ancestral major losses and their suppressed unresolved grief that has compounded and complicated their contemporary descendants (Aboriginal) losses and suppressed, unresolved grief, guaranteeing (Aboriginal) disadvantage, inter-generationally! However, understanding this relationship, Griefology provides a foundation for grieving-to-healing processes that will restore prosperity, which is the right of all human beings.

Rosemary’s peer reviewed and published Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief framework, has led to her being recognised as a national and international leader in Griefology.

As a clinical Griefologist with 30-years of ‘testing’ the Seven Phases, her programs present the findings of her intuitive research to prove Griefology is a newfound discipline absent from multiple institutions struggling to transform Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal Prosperity. Rosemary hypothesises Griefology can prevent social determinates, such as: suicide prevention; physical sicknesses; homelessness; racism; employment; education; domestic violence; all forms of violence against men, women and children. This method works from within a decolonial methodology that focuses on intuitive knowing, being and doing, which is centred around the human experience rather than just statistics.

“Awareness of a different perspective of the genesis of mental disorders.”

– Adelaide Participant (SA Psychiatry Branch Training Committee) Introducing the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief (2023)

The Workshop Program

1. Contemporary Aboriginal Reality – Aboriginal Disadvantage

  • Statistics will not be front and centre but a lived experience behind these ‘Aboriginal’ statistics.

2. Why Unearth Ancient History Bringing it into Modern Australian History?

  • Pre & post Australian invasion/colonisation: unravelling English & European history.
  • The purpose of finding Aristocles Plato in 388-BC.
  • Ancient and contemporary ‘racism’ and how to decolonise it.

3. Theory of Griefology

  • In a clinical setting, ongoing communication with the client’s adult-self and multiple unhealed inner children/adolescents for the purpose of ‘growing’ them up to maturity.
  • 8 Common Grief emotions.
  • What is grief depression and how to work with it.
  • Multiple unhealed inner children/adolescents and ‘their journey’ towards mental health challenges and suicide ideation.
  • ‘Hearing voices’: who’s are they really? Ancestral, multiple unhealed inner children/adolescents, adult-self.
  • Applying Griefology to ‘talk to’ suicidal ideation.
  • Reflective and creative grief activities as a prevention into mental health challenges to prevent suicide.
  • Identifying intuitive intelligence versus grief fears.
  • Self-care to sustain your personal & professional wellbeing.

4. Strategies To Building Bi-cultural Rapport with the Individual and their Community.

  • Identifying grief fear using body language.
  • How to build and maintain cultural rapport.
  • “OK, now you’ve done the training…” Promoting yourself as culturally safe in Griefology.

Aboriginal Suicide Prevention

Through the Lens of Griefology

Presented by: Rosemary Wanganeen
November 7th – 9th 2023
Adelaide, SA

Learn about inter-generational suppressed unresolved grief, how it compounds and complicates contemporary Aboriginal people’s lives and its relationship to mental health challenges, particularly relevant to suicide prevention. This workshop will introduce the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss & Grief as a ‘holistic approach’ enabling you to be a part of a solution in transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity!

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners

I acknowledge the custodians of this Land as the Kaurna People and that I respect and support our relationship on Kaurna Country. I also acknowledge our ancestors have been the custodians of the Adelaide Plains for many generations and that we their contemporaries will continue to sustain our connection to the country. Similarly, I’d also like to acknowledge my gratitude for the sharing of modern Australia however I express my deep sadness for the cost of this sharing but realize I have a right, a role and a responsibility to support the Reconciliation process to move forward to a place of equity, justice and in partnership together for all future Australians as one nation under our great Southern Cross.