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T 08 8341 5557 M 0438 203 032 E [email protected] www.lossandgrief.com.au Loss, Grief and Suicide Prevention Cultural Insights and Practical Strategies for Health Professionals Working in Aboriginal Communities A three-day workshop for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health professionals who want: an awareness and understanding of the factors driving what is commonly referred to as ‘Aboriginal disadvantage’ an awareness and understanding of Aboriginal perspectives on loss, grief and suicide practical loss and grief strategies to respond effectively to mental health issues in Aboriginal communities an understanding and awareness of Aboriginal perspectives on the rights, roles and responsibilities of health professionals working with Aboriginal communities an awareness and understanding of how to work effectively with other service providers, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal practical strategies to ensure culturally safe workplaces. Rosemary’s course has exceeded my expectations. Her Loss and Grief model can be applied to all mental health clients, regardless of their race and culture. Annabel Roach REGISTER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE 3 day WORKSHOP

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T 08 8341 5557 M 0438 203 032 E [email protected] www.lossandgrief.com.au

Loss, Grief and Suicide PreventionCultural Insights and Practical Strategies for Health Professionals Working in Aboriginal Communities

A three-day workshop for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health professionals who want:

an awareness and understanding of the factors driving what is commonly referred to as ‘Aboriginal disadvantage’

an awareness and understanding of Aboriginal perspectives on loss, grief and suicide

practical loss and grief strategies to respond effectively to mental health issues in Aboriginal communities

an understanding and awareness of Aboriginal perspectives on the rights, roles and responsibilities of health professionals working with Aboriginal communities

an awareness and understanding of how to work effectively with other service providers, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal

practical strategies to ensure culturally safe workplaces.

Rosemary’s course has exceeded my expectations. Her Loss and Grief model can be applied to all mental health clients, regardless of their race and culture.Annabel Roach

REGISTER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE

3 day WORKSHOP

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Rosemary Wanganeen’s Loss, Grief and Suicide Prevention will inform, challenge and inspire you.

Rosemary draws on her own highly personal and professional experiences to provide unique and practical insights to managing mental health issues in Aboriginal communities. Using her groundbreaking model, Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief, she will:

show how grieving processes in traditional Aboriginal culture prevented social, emotional and physical diseases and disorders

explain the profound relationship between suppressed unresolved loss/grief in Aboriginal communities, and mental illness

show how western health systems can ‘disconnect’ the innate human intuitive intelligence to trigger mental illnesses, diseases and disorders

show how Plato’s view of grief as a weakness negatively influenced ancient western culture, and how it now influences contemporary health systems to create intergenerational grief fear

show how grief fear can be transformed into our innate human intuitive intelligence to create Aboriginal prosperity.

Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health professionals alike will leave the workshop with knowledge, skills and practical strategies to transform their practice. Perspectives will be challenged, insights will be formed, skills will be learned, lives will be improved.

Hear my story. Join my journey. Make a difference.

Great tools and technology – a great program to make a difference to people’s lives. Participant

Hear my story. Join my journey. Make a difference.

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LOSS, GRIEF AND SUICIDE PREVENTION: 3 DAY WORKSHOP

PHASES 1-5 PHASE 6 PHASE 7

DAY 1 Contemporary Challenges

DAY 2 Loss and Grief Theory

DAY 3 Grief Strategies

9am-5pm (registration from 8.30am) 9am-5pm (arrive 8.45am) 9am-5pm (arrive 8.45am)

A contemporary reality – Rosemary’s non-academic ‘case study’.

Traditional beliefs, concepts, understandings and practices that maintain the balance of Seven Humanities, preserving intuitive intelligence across generations.

Origins of intergenerational grief fear - outright warfare and germ warfare; invasions and colonisation; Australian, English and European history.

Psychological warfare using policies, practices and procedures.

Where did intergenerational racism come from?

Hearing voices: Is it a mental illness or the voices of the Ancestors communicating?

What is - and how can we disempower - intergenerational racism?

What are losses: tangible and intangible?

What are grief emotions?

What is grief discounting?

What are grief triggers?

What is gender grief?

Grieving inner children versus an inner child.

How to differentiate between - and communicate with - the adult self (of the individual) and their unhealed inner children.

What are affirmed and diminished attributes, and their relationship to grief fear and intuitive intelligence?

Hearing voices: How to differentiate the mental illness voices of inner children with the voices of the Ancestors?

Strategies to inspire confidence in service providers.

What is intuitive intelligence and how can we maintain its integrity?

Using creative grief activities to design a tailor-made self-care plan.

Creating work/life balance.

How to use the training as a ‘marketing tool’ to inform and develop rapport with your local Aboriginal community.

Why accept and respect the voices of the Ancestors communicating?

This workshop is offered in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australian regional areas, interstate capital cities and regional areas.

For further information on dates and venues, go to www.lossandgrief.com.au

WORKSHOP COSTS

Please refer to the registration form

or www.lossandgrief.com.au for all workshop costs.

REGISTER NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE

T 08 8341 5557 M 0438 203 032 E [email protected] www.lossandgrief.com.au

...the most deeply connected to my practice that I have ever been...your kind way and wisdom has allowed me to gain so much insight.Belinda Sassi, Social Worker

Workshop outline

Reference Material

Wanganeen, R (2011), ‘Seven phases to integrating loss and grief’, in Grief matters: the Australian journal of grief and bereavement, vol.14, no.3, pp.78-88.

Wanganeen, R (2009), ‘Dealing with loss, grief and trauma: seven phases to healing’ in Working with specific groups – models, programs & services. Improving the capacity of workers in Indigenous communities; Indigenous mental health textbook, eds Australian Council for Educational Research Limited, Chapter 19.

Wanganeen, R (2008), ‘A loss and grief model in practice’, in Anger and Indigenous men, Day, A, Nakata, M & Howells K, Annandale, Federation Press, p. 73.

Wanganeen, R (2008), ‘The significance of context: stories from South Australia’, in Anger and Indigenous men, Day, A, Davey, L, Wanganeen, R, Howells, K, Desantolo, J & Nakarta, M.

Walters, G (1997), Why do Christians find it hard to grieve, Paternoster Press, UK.

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2/107 Military Road Semaphore Park South Australia 5019

T 08 8341 5557 M 0438 203 032 E [email protected] www.lossandgrief.com.au

ACN: 117 236 736

Rosemary’s insights and her highly practical approach to working with loss and grief has transformed the outlook of healthcare professionals across the country.

Your Presenter

Rosemary Kudnarto Wanganeen is a proud Aboriginal South Australian of Kaurna, Koogatha and Wirrangu heritage. Rosemary founded the Sacred Site Within Healing Centre in 1993, and in its strength founded the Australian Institute for Loss and Grief in 2005. Since this time, the Institute has worked with health professionals across Australia to challenge respectfully, from an Aboriginal perspective, prevailing western perspectives about loss and grief.

Rosemary’s passion is for improving health services to Aboriginal communities, but her story, her research, her insights and her highly practical approach to working with loss and grief has transformed the outlook of healthcare professionals across the country, regardless of the communities in which they work.

Her background as a Stolen Generation child and as a researcher with both the Committee to Defend Black Rights (1986) and the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody (1988) give her deep and personal insights to what is often called Aboriginal disadvantage. These insights informed her groundbreaking Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief. This highly

acclaimed work explores the relationship between loss, grief and disadvantage in Aboriginal communities. In so doing, it offers practical strategies to turn Aboriginal disadvantage to Aboriginal prosperity.

On the basis of her 25 years industry experience, Rosemary has been admitted to a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Adelaide, leading to a PhD questioning whether Aboriginal disadvantage is becoming an Aboriginal industry.

Rosemary is a counsellor, author, academic, researcher, public speaker, educator and entrepreneur. She presented to the SA Psychiatry Board in 2016 and 2018, and her work has been recognised internationally. She is the recipient of numerous awards recognising her contribution to Aboriginal health.

WINNER 2009

South Australian of the Year Community Award

WINNER 2016

Outstanding Health Project/Program Aboriginal Health Council (SA) NAIDOC Health Awards

FINALIST 2016

SA Health Mental Health Excellence Awards