An Example of Enabling Indigenous Wellbeing
Posted Nov 2000. Last Updated April 2014. On December 8 1990
Neville Yeomans signs a statement (the archival source for this page)
relating to a voluntary co-learning sharing during the previous fifteen
months between an Aboriginal women and himself. While energy sharing occurred
during the fifteen months, the women did receive a grant to engage fulltime
in co-learning for three months. During the 15 months the
Aboriginal women and Neville were involved in individual and family therapy,
facilitating, mediating, and counselling during home visits, live-in
programmes and visitors attending Neville's Home. Neville and the women
were introduced by another Aboriginal women with whom Neville had been
engaged in a similar co-learning. The places and
approximate times were as follows: o Wuchopperen Aboriginal and Islander Medical Service,
Innisfail - 10 days o Yungaburra home of Neville - 150 hours o Cairns facility - 10 hours o Atherton Tablelands, various towns and places - 50 hours o Lake Tinaroo, April 1990; facilitation mediation and
counselling live-in co-learning gathering - 6 days (with around 20 other
Aboriginal and Islander women from the Atherton Tablelands region and remote
areas of Far North Australia) o Yungaburra; facilitation, mediation and counselling small
group gatherings - 13 days o Petford Training Farm visits; including live-in
co-learnings of up to 3 days working alongside Old Man, another Aboriginal Healer and
around 25 Aboriginal and Islander youth, exploring self healing ways; since
June 1990 - 30 days o Cairns; as co-enablers and micro-experience sharers at a
Socio-Emotional Healing Wellbeing Gathering - 1 day During the 15 months,
both the Aboriginal women and Neville were separately, engaged in enabling
co-learning and healing sharings with other Aboriginal and disadvantaged
minority people. |