WORKSHOPS
The Healing Centre for Griefology
Transforming Aboriginal disadvantage into Aboriginal prosperity.
Utilising innovative approaches and compelling techniques that Rosemary has developed over time, workshop participants will be intellectually informed, gently challenged, and leave inspired.
A brief overview of each workshop is available here on this website. Please contact us for more detailed information on the specific topics covered in each Workshop.
If you’re providing a service to an Aboriginal community or individual at any level, the learnings from today’s workshop as non-Aboriginal service providers will assist you to minimise the distress of Aboriginal communities or individuals having to be ‘re-traumatised’ themselves as they re-tell their history. Such teachings will enable each party to move into the business or the issues at hand’, therefore the quality of won’t be compromised.
Aboriginal service providers and organisations with Aboriginal staff are encouraged to attend.
Similarly, Aboriginal service providers will leave with a heightened sense of inspiration because they’re being up-skilled intellectually and emotionally to respond to not just their history but any racially motivated comments or behaviour’s, cultural biases, old beliefs, misconceptions, confusion and misunderstandings about Aboriginal history and contemporary issues.
Together we will aim for a deeper and more meaningful understanding of our shared history and the depths of Aboriginal loss and grief trauma so that we can engage with each other culturally and safely.
Bookings and further information below.
Bi-Cultural Allyship
Creating Culturally Safer Workplaces
One and a Half-day Program
Bi-cultural allyship is the conscious commitment to understanding, respecting, and actively supporting the strengths, values, and perspectives of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultures in fostering meaningful collaboration and equity. Attendees will gain profound insights from her three decades of designing and delivering workshops and providing a unique EAP counselling model called Griefology.
By supporting your organisation to better connect to Aboriginal people, the aim of these workshops is to enable Aboriginal people to feel culturally safe and inclusive in the service they are accessing.
Designed for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal service providers, these workshops are beneficial to organisations who have Aboriginal employees and colleagues. We explore practical strategies that lead to deconstructing Aboriginal disadvantage and help to create and maintain culturally safer environments.
Aboriginal Suicide Prevention
Two Day Program
This workshop offers a profound exploration of the complexities surrounding Aboriginal death by suicide. Facilitated by esteemed Griefologist Rosemary Wanganeen, Aboriginal Suicide Prevention explores the role of intergenerational, suppressed, unresolved grief in Aboriginal communities and its impact on suicide rates.
Without culturally appropriate approaches, service providers have struggled to meet the unique needs of Aboriginal people. As a society, we must confront a difficult truth: existing models often struggle to fully address the complexities of Aboriginal disadvantage, highlighting the need for more inclusive and culturally responsive approaches to suicide prevention.
For Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal service providers, the workshop is culturally safe and sensitive to the needs of the Aboriginal community.
Be Your Own Advocate – Aboriginal Ways of Being, Doing and Saying
One and a Half Day Program
This one and a half-day Be Your Own Advocate workshop will discuss past and present Aboriginal realities, using Rosemary’s lived experience as an evidence-based case study.
The workshop will examine loss and grief using the Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology framework, and how it has been presented in generations of Aboriginal people since invasion/colonisation. Rosemary will demonstrate how to use your intuitive intelligence to think critically, creatively and innovatively, helping you to discover your own path to prosperity.
Throughout the workshop there will be strategies for setting boundaries, implementing self-care, balancing personal cultural overload/fatigue and community/family pressures, and self-reflections.
Come to the workshop to be informed and challenged, and leave inspired to be your own advocate as an individual, for your family and for your community.
Griefology to Avert Mental Health Challenges
Two Day Program
The Healing Centre for Griefology invites Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal colleagues to attend our transformative workshop, ‘Through the Lens of Griefology – Averting Mental Health Challenges’ by esteemed Griefologist Rosemary Wanganeen.
The Healing Centre stands apart through Rosemary’s integration of lived experience as validated practice, shaped by her personal strategies to prevent cultural overload and fatigue and embedded within the Griefology model.
Grounded in a grief (trauma)- informed model, the Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology, this training will equip participants with a variety of knowledge, skills and practical strategies to support people at risk and make a meaningful different towards mental health challenges. The information, knowledge and skills gained will inspire greater confidence when working with individual Aboriginal clients and their communities. You will learn about intergenerational suppressed, unresolved grief and its relationship to mental health challenges using culturally aware approaches sensitive to the needs of Aboriginal clients, reducing fear, creating cultural safety and contributing to the support of Aboriginal prosperity.
Any ‘Through the Lens of Griefology’ Workshop can be delivered directly to workplaces – please ENQUIRE below for more information!
Rosemary also offers Customised Workplace Training – this can be a combination of these ‘Through the Lens of Griefology’ Workshops, or her Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology© customised to the needs of your workplace.
The Healing Centre for Griefology understands and values the concerns of confidentiality, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
