The Healing Centre for Griefology
Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.
The Healing Centre for Griefology
Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.
Starting the Conversation
The Healing Centre for Griefology is helping Australian’s start a conversation about a future for Aboriginal prosperity, and we are delighted to announce the inaugural National Symposium on Griefology that will ‘talk to’ transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity. Her lived experiences of this transformation, Rosemary knows Griefology inspires, motivates, and sustains good health, social and emotion wellbeing.
Throughout the 1960’s, Rosemary’s lived experiences of several violations at the hands of Stolen Generation, derived from multiple inhumane SA policies and practices that violated Aboriginal peoples, intergenerationally. As if in a helicopter she rose above the trees and in 1987 she could see she needed to become a critical thinker by intuitively engaging a research methodology that investigated not so much what had happened to her but why did it happen to her? However, based on her violations, forced her to question not so much what happened when 1788 ‘arrived’ but why was 1788 so brutal, inhumane and violent without any shaming, blaming, demonizing, vilifying.
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.
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.
Special Guest
We are privileged to have the Attorney General of South Australia, Kyam Maher MLC, join us in opening the Symposium on Griefology.
As a proud Aboriginal man who served as the Aboriginal Affairs Minister in the Weatherill Labor Government, Kyam shares our passion for Aboriginal prosperity and cultural awareness across our Nation’s institutions.
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 Leadership – Aboriginal 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)
Inaugural National Symposium on Griefology
Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.
Presented by Rosemary Wanganeen | July 7th, 2023 | Adelaide
The Healing Centre for Griefology invites the Australian community to our National Symposium on Griefology presented by Griefologist, Rosemary Wanganeen.
As a leader in Griefology, Rosemary will present her findings proving Griefology is a newfound discipline absent from multiple institutions struggling to transform Aboriginal disadvantage. The Symposium invites you to collaborate with the Healing Centre for Griefology to expand exponentially by sponsoring its aspirations through philanthropy, venture capital, crowd funding and government funding.
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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.
