The Healing Centre for Griefology

Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.

The Healing Centre for Griefology

Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.

Starting a Critical Dialogue at our Conference November 2025

Join us in Adelaide over one and a half days in November 2025 for our Critical Dialogue Conference: ‘to what extent could Aboriginal disadvantage be a Western construct that was created and continues to maintain an Aboriginal industry?’

Aboriginal disadvantage has long been a focus of policies and services—but what if some responses have inadvertently perpetuated the very issues they seek to solve?

This Critical Dialogue Conference will explore this question through the revolutionary framework of Griefology—a practice grounded in Indigenous ways.

In 1987, Rosemary Wanganeen unconsciously tapped into her critical thinking, which led her to become an evidence-based, intuitive researcher. Her findings unearthed a framework called the Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology©, only to reveal a most disturbing research question: to what extent could Aboriginal disadvantage be a Western construct that was created (1788) and continues to maintain an Aboriginal industry (2025)?

Her lived experiences of this transformation, Rosemary knows Griefology inspires, motivates, and sustains good health, social and emotion wellbeing. Together, sitting around the campfire, her dialogue invites you to make your own decision as she critically examines whether the narrative of Aboriginal disadvantage has been strategically constructed and sustained, shaping policies, institutions, and interventions that reinforce rather than resolve inequities. Can the disadvantages be dismantled? Rosemary says ‘yes’ if we respectfully challenge the very systems that uphold it. And what does it mean to shift from Aboriginal Disadvantage to Aboriginal Prosperity? The dialogue won’t put statistics front and centre!

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Below are some key talking points she will ‘talk to’ with more to come:

Key Talking Points:

  • Intuitive Research + Evidence-based + Findings = Griefology
  • Tunka Manninendi – to alter the mind for the better (Kaurna)
  • Through Griefology into the 21st Century ‘Enlightenment’
  • The purpose of humanity is to evolve spiritually in this physical world, to remember
  • To decolonise the systems, decolonise the man
  • Warfare: Outright, Biological, Psychological
  • Decolonise Worldview vs Colonised Mindset
  • Technology: Grief Fear – Intuitive Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence

While the entire program is still being formed, you can expect:

  • A powerful keynote delivered by Rosemary Wanganeen, Founder of the Healing Centre for Griefology and creator of the Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology.
  • Deep, thought-provoking dialogue grounded in Indigenous knowledges and lived experience.
  • Courageous conversations about the uncomfortable truths and untapped possibilities in the way Aboriginal disadvantage is understood and addressed.
  • Opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals, community leaders, and advocates who are ready to disrupt the status quo.
  • This won’t be a typical conference—it will be a critical turning point.

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With over 30-years of research, findings and testing the model the Seven Phases will demonstrate Griefology is a human experience that does not discriminate and has developed a long-standing hypothesis that it can prevent, but is not limited to, a multitude of social determinants: for example, suicide prevention, mental health challenges, physical diseases and disorders, entrance into the welfare system, into juvenile and adult justice system, chronic homelessness, unemployment, addictions and, all forms of and degrees of violence.

Our business model will not stop until it is synonymous with intergenerational Aboriginal prosperity and our call to action for this Symposium is to invite you, the Australian community to collaborate with the Healing Centre for Griefology™️ to explore and expand exponentially by sponsoring its aspirations through philanthropy, capital investors, crowd funding, tertiary institutions, and government funding.

Renowned Keynote Speaker

As a Griefologist Rosemary is a clinical loss & grief counsellor; facilitator; assessor; keynote speaker; consultant; ethical entrepreneur and the Healing Centre is 100% Aboriginal owned and operated by her since 1993.

Rosemary has a proven track record that Griefology has a right, a role and a responsibility to be explored and expanded on exponentially but we invite you, the Australian community to be a part of the solution because the Seven Phases is for all Australians, however has international reach.

Attending the inaugural symposium, it’ll be a journey through the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief© and we’re confident you’ll be intellectually informed, emotionally challenged but leave inspired because through Griefology, humans can reach their fullest potential.

Her research led to her developing her innovative and unique model, the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss & Grief© that’s become an evidence-based, peer reviewed and published model.  You’ll hear how it became much more, but also a decolonial model that arrested her intergenerational Aboriginal disadvantage (grief fears) transforming it into Aboriginal prosperity (intuitive intelligence!)

As a national and international leader in Griefology the symposium will present her findings, with 30-years of testing the Seven Phases, proving Griefology, is a newfound discipline that is absent from multiple institutions struggling to transform Aboriginal disadvantage.  Post Rosemary’s time in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a pressing question has always been, ‘why has a multitude of social determinants escalated since the Royal Commission?’ and she believes Griefology has been a missing link.

Statistics are critical to know and understand but will not be front and centre, Rosemary’s Seven Phases model will bring the human face behind them.

What You’ll Gain by Attending

  • You’ll gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief© and how it became the ‘founder’ of Griefology and is a pathway out of Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.
  • Personal account from Rosemary, the original designer of Griefology that’s never been considered as a newfound discipline that’s been designed not just for Aboriginal people but for humanity.
  • Connect to like-minded colleagues and peers so as to become allies of Griefology because you’re ready for change that is measurable and sustainable.
  • The chance, like never before, to be a part of the solution into Aboriginal prosperity.
  • You’ll hear a firsthand account how Rosemary was the pebble into a lake, and in time, could ‘see’ the model became more that ‘just’ about her life, but Aboriginal families, their community, as a people, all Australians, and humanity.
  • Post the symposium there will be an opportunity to have private sessions with Rosemary to explore ways to sponsor and/or collaborate on expanding exponentially the aspirations of the Healing Centre for Griefology.

Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief©

Phase 1 1987-My contemporary reality: Lived experiences of Aboriginal disadvantage? What is Aboriginal disadvantage? Where did it derive? Intuitively reclaimed spiritual connection to ancient ancestors to begin grieving processes.
Phase 2 My multiple unhealed inner children/adolescents due to multiple violations causing a multitude of social determinants versus my chronological age: who’s voice, is it anyway?
Phase 3 1788 post invasion/colonization; before 1788 ‘arrived’ – explore English history; organised religions; European history – Roman Empire; 388 BC Aristocles Plato coined the idea that grief is not only ‘illogical’ but a ‘weakness’ the source to ‘disadvantage’.  Reflections: Discovered ‘disadvantage’ is a European patriarchal, man-made western construct to disseminate ‘disadvantage’ across the world, intergenerationally.
Phase 4 A complete civilization: 60,000+ years developed and maintained all the practicalities of sacred grieving ceremonies needed to maintain the multilayers of a civilization to not just survive but thrive.
Phase 5 A complete civilization: 60,000+ years of spiritual connection to the Mother Earth, the wisdom of our ancestor voices; the Dreamtime, the wisdom of all living creatures and in cooperation with them and Dreaming totems..
Phase 6 1993 – R&D to design Loss & Grief Counselling Program: Bi-Cultural Awareness, Safety for Inclusion Workshops: Be your own Advocate for LeadershipAboriginal Way: Aboriginal Griefology Averting Mental Health Challenges.
Phase 7 Aspirations: Licensing the Seven Phases System; Train the Trainer; Tertiary Education Curriculum; Registered Training Organization; Diploma in Griefology Counselling; Masters in Griefology; Primary and high school curriculum; Tertiary research & development; Griefology Respite Centres; Griefology rehabilitation healing centres; Franchising (national & international reach).

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

– Adelaide Participant, SA Psychiatry Branch Training Committee (2020)

Acknowledgement of Country

The Healing Centre for Griefology and founder, Rosemary Wanganeen, acknowledge that the Kaurna people are the Traditional Owners of Country of the land on which we are privileged to live, work, and play, and pay respects to Elders of the Kaurna nation, past, present and future. Rosemary acknowledges her gratitude for the sharing of modern Australia, and at the same time, expresses her deep sadness for the cost of this sharing particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We all have a right, a role, and responsibility to support the Reconciliation process and forge a path to a place of equity, justice, and partnership for all Australians. The Healing Centre for Griefology further acknowledges all Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and Torres Strait Islands and pays respect to their continuing connection to the land, waters and community we are privileged to visit. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past, present and emerging.