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Yarn’n Up7 E-‐Newsletter.
Contents. P2 Bouverie’s Indigenous Team P3 Yarn Strong Sista P4 Just for fun. P5-‐7 The 4th Annual Bouverie Alumni & Friends Celebrations P 8-‐12 Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson’s Workshop. P13 Wominjeka Reconciliation Week BBQ P14 Healing Aboriginal Families Workshop.
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The Indigenous Team at the Bouverie Centre.
On a rare occasion when the Bouverie Centre’s
Indigenous Team were together, at the same time as
our deadly La Trobe Uni photographer Tess.
Front row from left to right
Alison Elliott, Esmai Manahan, Banu Moloney.
Back row from left to right.
Robyne Latham, Fiona McIlwaine, Kerry Proctor
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Resources for your Interest.
Yarn Sista Strong. http://www.yarnstrongsista.com/ Yarn Strong Sista Consultants provide support and information for educators (Pre-School to Post-Secondary) who aim to deliver an Indigenous inclusive curriculum. These programs include training, storytelling, and educational resources. Yarn Strong Sista promotes both traditional and contemporary Indigenous culture, people and values. Yarn Strong Sista offers creative Indigenous educational experiences that are developed in consultation with Traditional Owners, Elders and Communities. This diverse and dynamic team of Education Consultants are committed to the preservation of Indigenous culture. This is achieved by community empowerment, knowledge of best practice and reconciliation.
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The 4th Annual Bouverie Alumni & Friends Celebrations
The 4th Annual Bouverie Alumni & Friends Celebrations On the 26th of February, 4th Annual Bouverie Alumni & Friends Celebrations was held at the Bouverie Centre. This year’s alumni theme was ‘Bouverie Goes Bush’. The evening began with delightful pre-dinner drinks and nibblies (I for one certainly ate too many oysters) followed by Aunty Di Kerr’s moving Welcome to Country. Several people, Aboriginal and non Aboriginal, commented that Aunty Di’s Welcome to Country was extraordinarily moving. Further to this several people reflected that they felt Bouverie had turn corner in the long journey towards true reconciliation.
Aunty Di Kerr photographed during her Welcom
e to County
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Fantastic prizes were awarded for The Best Individual Interpretation of the Theme and The Best Table Interpretation. A wonderful film titled A Country Practice… Practicing in the Country, by San Leenstra (Alumna 2012) and Barbara Nettelbeck (Alumna 2006) from the Bendigo Family Therapy Group, was screened. The film addressed, with much humour, the complexities of working with families in a systemic way, in rural Victoria. Victoria. Somehow Jana and Ivy made such serious and complex work an incredibly funny event.
Journalist and channel 9 news-reader, Brett McLeod, then presented an incredibly arresting and revealing, presentation on his personal experiences and reflections on Journalism and Trauma. This truly was a wonderful evening concluded with a good old country and western RnB band. The 2016 Alumni Dinner will again be held in February.
Ivy Yaram, with microphone, and Jana Kelly in the background.
Setting the scene for the Alumni Dinner.
The 4th Annual Bouverie Alumni & Friends Celebrations
This was followed by an inspirational interlude, with Jana Kelly interviewing Ivy Yaram (Alumnae 2012) around healing Aboriginal Families in rural Victoria. There were certainly similarities and differences, in the film, A Country Practice… Practicing in the Country and Ivy (and Daphne’s LOL) reflections.
Setting the scene for the Alumni Dinner.
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Daphny Y
aram, (alum
ni 2012) at the
Luke Patterson, our new fulla on
reception, on his first day at Bouverie.
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Culture w
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paign, fabulous food and w
onderful company.
Ivy, Aunty D
i and Jeff
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Emeritus Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson, a leading expert in understanding trans
generational healing and recovery from trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples, conducted a two day workshop at the Bouverie Centre, titled Working with
Families, Children and Complex Trauma Environments.
The Bouverie Centre was delighted to present this landmark workshop.
The intent of the workshop was to ‘work with families to help prevent the level of child
removals in every state of Australia.’ Confronting, challenging and wonderfully expansive in
depth and breadth, Aunty Judy’s workshop was an absolute eye opener.
The national and international work Aunty Judy undertakes is truly that of an Elder.
A selection of the participants, written comments on their evaluation sheets are transcribed
below.
To the question;
What learning or skills will be of most use to you; participants responded with:
Motivation to make more change in my work place.
To focus more on self care.
Dadirri – Play therapy, observe and reflect.
Nurturing – Children at play.
Deep Listening.
‘Educaring,’ importance of emotional learning in the school setting.
Hearing the voice of the child.
General responses to the two-‐day workshop were:
Thank you for challenging me reminding me why I do this work. x
Please keep providing us with culturally informed and Aboriginal specific training workshops.
Thank you for a very enjoyable and well organized workshop. The food was excellent.
She was wonderful, could listen to her all day.
Thank you for an emotionally and thought provoking two days.
Food was fabulous!
Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson Working with Families, Children, and Complex Trauma Environments.
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Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson
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Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson Working with Families, Children, and Complex Trauma Environments.
Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson, a leading expert in understanding trans generational
healing and recovery from trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,
conducted a two day workshop titled Working with Families, Children and complex trauma
environments.
The Bouverie Centre was delighted to present this landmark workshop.
The intent of the workshop was to ‘work with families to help prevent the level of child
removals in every state of Australia.
Below are a selection of comments by the participants, written on their evaluation sheets.
To the question: General responses were
What learning or skills will be of most use to you, participants responded with:
Motivation to make more change in my work place.
To focus more on self care.
Dadirri – Play therapy, observe and reflect.
Nurturing – Children at play.
Deep Listening.
‘Educaring,’ importance of emotional learning in the school setting.
Hearing the voice of the child.
General responses were:
Thank you for challenging me reminding me why I do this work. x
Please keep providing us with culturally informed and Aboriginal
specific training workshops.
Thank you for a very enjoyable and well organized workshop. The
food was excellent.
She was wonderful, could listen to her all day.
Thank you for an emotionally and thought provoking two days.
Food was fabulous!
Photos of the participants at Aunty Judy’s workshop on Day 1 of the two days.
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“Healing Aboriginal Families.”
We would love to invite you to a fun, reflective and informative workshop, “Healing Aboriginal Families.” This three-‐day workshop is designed for those currently working with Aboriginal families through to final year students, planning to work with Aboriginal families upon graduation.
In an atmosphere, which is culturally safe for all, Indigenous and non-‐Indigenous alike, this workshop will explore the unique challenges of
working with Aboriginal families.
It will be experiential and fun.
The workshop will build on each participant’s current level of awareness and experience. So whether you know very little or a lot about working
with Aboriginal families, this 3 day process will strengthen and deepen your skill base. Participants will explore and practice culturally safe ways of
engaging families through simple, yet powerful tools.
Book now at http://www.bouverie.org.au/training/pd (scroll down and click on Healing Aboriginal Families Book Now button) Places limited.
Workshop facilitators Alison Elliott and Robyne Latham.
Look forward to seeing you there! The Indigenous Team The Bouverie Centre 8 Gardiner St, Brunswick. Victoria. 3056 P 61 3 9385 5100 E [email protected] W www.bouverie.org.au
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If you have a Story to tell,
Photos to share, Great resources to pass on to your fellow family therapists,
And/Or A wonderful workshop to recommend
Email Robbie Latham oat [email protected] and it will be
in the next publication of
Yarn’n Up8
No story to big or small.