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, for more information please see the ‘Through the Lens of Griefology’ Workshop series brochure, or individual workshop flyers below.
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’.
Aboriginal service providers and organisations with Aboriginal staff are encouraged to find out more.
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 behaviours, 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.
1. Bi-Cultural Allyship
Creating Culturally Safer Workplaces
One Day Workshop
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.
Workshop Dates & Locations:
March 27th
Adelaide, South Australia
May 30th
Brisbane, Queensland
August 29th
Mount Gambier & Western Victoria
For more information and booking links, please open the below Bi-Cultural Allyship Flyer.
2. Aboriginal Suicide Prevention
One and a Half Day Program (*one-day only in Adelaide, SA)
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.
Workshop Dates & Locations
April 15th-16th
Port Augusta, South Australia
June 26th-27th
Perth, Western Australia
November 28th
Adelaide, South Australia
*please note the Adelaide Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Workshop is one-day only.
For more information and booking links, please open the below Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Flyer.
3. Aboriginal Pathways to Women’s Self-Advocacy Workshop
One and a Half Day Program
Stepping into our potential as women – and as Aboriginal women – can feel just as daunting as the fear of failure. But we don’t have to walk this journey alone. This workshop is a culturally safe and supportive space where Rosemary Wanganeen will gently guide you to trust your cultural intuitive intelligence, just as she did. By doing so, she forged a pathway toward her own prosperity, both personally and professionally.
Our cultural intuitive intelligence is deeply connected to our female instincts and ability to read and respond to the world around us. It helps us make decisions strategically and confidently whilst drawing on our lived experiences, emotions, and cultural wisdom. However, when we constantly navigate workplace expectations, advocate for cultural safety, and carry the emotional weight of educating others, plus family challenges and our communities, we can experience cultural overload and fatigue.
This workshop will explore with you how to recognise and manage cultural overload and fatigue, ensuring you have the tools and support to sustain your well-being while creating opportunities for growth. How to set boundaries with confidence will also be discussed, including:
- Recognising that its okay to say ‘No’ without guilt or fear
- Asking for allyship from colleagues so the cultural load is shared
- Encouraging non-Indigenous peers to take responsibility for cultural learning rather than it always falling to Aboriginal women
- How to be your own advocate
With warmth and wisdom, Rosemary will introduce her Seven Phases to Integrating Griefology as a roadmap for navigating personal and professional challenges. She will take you on a journey of discovery, showing how and Aboriginal perspective on loss and grief can offer insights into the barriers that may have blocked your path. This journey will help you think critically, independently, and creatively, giving you the strategies and confidence to advocate for yourself and take action on your dreams, hopes and goals.
Because prosperity remains an idea until you decide what it is for you, and step into it on your terms.
Workshop Dates & Locations:
July 30th-31st
Adelaide, South Australia
October 23rd-24th
Melbourne, Victoria
December 4th-5th
Riverland, South Australia
For more information and booking links, please open the below Bi-Cultural Allyship Flyer.
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. Please see the below ‘Customised Workplace Training’ Brochure for more information.
The Healing Centre for Griefology understands and values the concerns of confidentiality, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
