We Al-li's Facilitator Training
Recreating Songlines from Trauma Trails: The ceremony of Indigenous Facilitation Practice
Registrations are closed
Thank you for tyring to register for We Al-li’s August Facilitator Training Program. This program has been filled, and as a result We Al-li is scheduling another Facilitator Training Program to be held in late October, in Kuranda far north Queensland. Arrangements are being prioritised. Please email [email protected] so you can notify us that you wish to be placed on the priority mailing list for this second program.
About this workshop
This five-day residential intensive workshop has been designed for people who are wanting to deepen their personal and professional development in Indigenous Facilitation Practice in the trauma healing space AND/OR for people that are wanting to continue to learn, through being actively involved in We Al-li’s mentorship model, through on the job training in the 14 workshops that We Al-li deliver, progressing from Facilitator In Training to Co-Facilitator and if you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, to Lead Facilitator.
This 5-day intensive will enhance the many skills YOU bring with you and introduce you to the We Al-li way of working. Our workshops are experiential, focusing on process work as an embodied learning approach and deep and at times confronting sessions that can challenge both the Facilitator and the participants. All activities are of course your choice however we would encourage you to fully immerse yourself in the 5-day workshop as a platform to strengthen your Facilitation skills from the inside out. This will include a strong emphasis on self-care and developing a Community of Care within the group. This process will support your own exploration.
The first day of the workshop will involve “setting the scene” and “creating safety”. We will give you the background of our ways of knowing, being and doing as We Al-li Facilitators. The next three days will involve going through the 6 stages of healing model guided by what is in the field and through the construction of a personal story map. This will be a deeply experiential and embodied process. The last day of the workshop will be an opportunity for workshop participants to integrate and share their learnings in the ceremony of reciprocity through group presentations (you are strongly encouraged to journal throughout the workshop to assist the presentation on the last day).
A Five Day Training Program for developing facilitation skills for professional practice
Aims of this workshop:
The main aim of this workshop is to create a safe circle to enable participants to immerse themselves in Indigenous Facilitation Practices from an experiential perspective, drop into truth telling (past, present and future) and find and tell their stories, make sense of their stories, feel the feelings, move through the layers of loss, grief and trauma to ownership of choices, leading to strengthening cultural and spiritual identities – both individually and collectively – recreating song lines and healing trails.
Objectives of this workshop:
The workshop objectives are to establish a safe circle through observing protocol and ceremony to facilitate the mapping of trauma and the process of healing – recreating our song lines and healing trails from a Facilitators’/ Participants’ perspective. This will be facilitated through experiential processes using art, symbols, music, theatre, emotional release, body work, storytelling and mapping and reflective discussion embodied in deep listening. These processes embody the learnings and provide participants with culturally responsive trauma specific tools for use in the field as Facilitators. This training focuses on both the personal and professional, providing participants with deep reflective practice tools, de-briefing processes and strong peer to peer relationships that develop strong and sustainable communities of care and practice and Facilitators that are equipped to work in this space.
Download the course brochure here.
This Workshop is suitable for anyone working in the Human Service Sector.
PACFA CPD Endorsed:
Class A: 37.5 hours
Cost: $4,400 per person (includes GST). Choose from full payment upfront, or 4 monthly payments.
Dates: Monday 14th August to Friday 18th August
Times: 9:00am – 4:30pm, daily
Venue: Apmwerre (Black tank outstation) 80km
Northeast of Alice Springs
What is Provided:
- All meals
- Accommodation (Swag, tent, stretcher)
- Airport transfers from and to Alice
Springs airport - All workshop resources
- Facilitators Manual
- Certificate of Attainment
- Copy of Judy Atkinson’s
Trauma Trails - Ongoing mentoring and support
- Boxed set of Healing Cards
Disclaimer: Due to the limited number of places, We Al-li reserves the right to select who can attend this workshop. The primary aim is for us to identify future facilitators to work with us. It may be that even if you have paid we may later inform you that you have not been successful in your application. In that case your payment will be refunded within 7 days.
Our Facilitators
Carlie Atkinson
Facilitator
Carlie (Caroline) Atkinson is a Bundjalung and Yiman women and an accredited Social Worker with a PhD (Charles Darwin University, 2009). Dr. Atkinson is an international leader in complex and intergenerational trauma and strengthsbased healing approaches in Indigenous Australia. She is the CEO of her family organisation, We Al-li, designing and coordinating delivery of Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approaches (CITIHA) training and resource development for organisations and communities across Australia focusing on systems transformation and implementation. Dr Atkinson is regularly invited to participate in policy and other high-level meetings for government and non-government organisations. She is the convenor of PACFA’s newly formed College of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Practices, CI on the NHMRC funded Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future project, and leads We Al-li’s effort in partnership with Griffith University to embed CITIHA into the curriculum.
Judy Atkinson
Facilitator
Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson retired from formal academic work at the end of 2010. She researched and co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report for the Queensland government. Her book, Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines The transgenerational effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, was shortlisted for an Australian Human Rights Award. She is presently Patron of the We Al-li Trust, as she continues to work across Australia on community based violence-trauma specific recovery programs. Judy assisted the University of Wollongong in the development of their postgraduate program: the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Trauma Care and Recovery Practice, and is working with Charles Darwin University on new postgraduate programs.
Ash Dargan
Facilitator
Ash gained his Masters of Indigenous Studies under Dr. Judy Atkinson following her work in Trauma Informed approaches to community recovery as the Australian Federal Government moved to set up and fund the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation. Since that time he has held State and Territory senior leadership positions across the Education, Mental Health, Justice and Community Service sectors. Ash is passionate about leading change processes that enable better and fairer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As a critically reflective thinker he bridges the cultural divide allowing ideas to flow into actions that make sense for services and consumers. He was one of the founding members of the Larrakia Healing Group that produced one of Australia’s leading resources on ‘place based’ Transgenerational Trauma and how to heal from its compounding effects within a historical framework.
Tyson Carmody
Facilitator
Tyson Carmody is a trusted narrative therapist, community leader, proud Arrernte man, father, and the founder and managing director of Kings Narrative. His vision at Kings Narrative is to support Aboriginal men to be the authors of their own story and build a proud future for his sons to inherit. Anyone who has worked with Tyson knows the patience, generosity, and knowledge he brings to everything he does. His work now is firmly grounded in systems change, strong communities and nurturing black excellence. He is highly sought after as a speaker, facilitator, and mediator. Tyson has held many lead positions throughout Mparntwe (Alice Springs) across youth and community development including roles as Reconnect Program at The Gap Youth and Community Centre, Head of Wellbeing - St Josephs’s Catholic Flexible Learning Centre, Director - Centralian Senior College Clontarf Academy, and Head of Health and Wellbeing -
Children’s Ground Central Australia.
Jem Stone
Facilitator
Jem Stone is a First Nations Woman, Educator and Wellness Practitioner who is passionately integrating original knowledge into education and wellness spaces through connection and decolonised learning methods. Jem acknowledges all her ancestral roots that include Indigenous Australian from the Bundjalung Nation, First Nations American, Afro Caribbean, English and Irish. Working in the wellness industry for over twenty years, Jem Stone arrived in healing spaces through her own personal healing journey and continues to walk her healing path and dedicates much of her time learning from Elders and other cultural teachers. Jem is passionate about creating safe, inclusive, decolonised spaces for
healing.
