Learning the art and value of deep listening in the context of recovery and resilience building
Dadirri – learning the art and value of deep listening in the context of recovery and resilience building. Indigneous elder Prof. Judy Atkinson will teach us how to deeply listen and practice the art of Dadirri. We will learn how this gift from our First Nations people can help us all heal. You will experience a number of facilitated experiences that will show you the power of the act of listening to self and others.
About the Presenter
Prof. Judy Atkinson
Judy Atkinson identifies as a Jiman / Bundjalung (Aboriginal Australian) woman. With a PhD from QUT, her primary academic and research focus is in the area of violence and relational trauma, and healing for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. She was awarded 2011 the Fritz Redlich award for Mental Health and Human Rights from the Harvard University Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery program.
Her book: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines: The transgenerational effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, was sub-listed for a human rights award. Judy retired at the end of 2010, so she can focus on working with communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea in trauma informed and trauma specific educational – healing work, what she calls educaring – an Indigenous Healing Practice.
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