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Hi Cristel,
Just remembered some wonderful recordings that
David Gulpilil made some years ago. I had an exerience of them being used in
Darwin with a mixed group of young people, and they all loved them. There were
some indigenous youth in the group of students and after the tape had been
played through the first time, they asked for the tape to be
replayed. While it was playing the second time they spontaneously got
up and interpreted the tapes with dance and actions. They are lovely tapes to
listen to, as David Gulpilil has a marvellous voice and made the stories come
alive
We obtained copies of the tapes at that time with
the help of the Darwin Library. I can't remember what they were called and no
longer have them, but I am sure they must still exist
Hope this helps, I think this is a great effort you
are doing and one that has a lot of hope in it.
kind regards, susanne Harford
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Subject: Re: [youthgas] Resources on
"Belonging"
Dear Cristel,
It sounds like you are making an important
contribution with Aboriginal youth. Excluding young people with chemical
misuse issues from family and school is something not desired by anyone but
sometimes resorted to out of frustration of a problem out of control. I would
therefore be happy to contribute a class activity play on Family Healing
Circles, Aboriginal culturally appropriate Structured Intervention (FSI) that
I was privileged to develop with Aboriginal Elders and families. It worked
very well with young people in Western Australia.
A Family Healing
Circle ensures that young people with chemical misuse issues feel and
experience belonging rather banishment. This is achieved by empowering their
friends and/or family with ancient wisdom, traditional healing apporaches
coupled with modern healing skills that together gently, effectively help
their friend or family member change and commit to getting help - rather than
"waiting until they ask for help or hit bottom."
I find affording
young Aborigines opportunity to learn Family Healing Circle skills through
community/social theatre to be a dynamic, culturally appropriate, sustainable
way to uphold the right to self-determination while learning to rapidly help
each other when troubled - before hitting bottom including criminal justice
system involvement.
If this type of class activity is of interest,
please let me know. I wish you the best with your project,
Cristel.
Kind regards,
Deborah Dupre'
On 27Jul2005, at
10:09 AM, MEREDITH, Cristel wrote:
Hi All,
I
am looking for resources for a unit of work on “Belonging” for high school
students. Books, movies and class activities would all be great. I am trying
to particularly focus on items with an indigenous theme. Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated.
Cristel
Meredith
Deborah
Dupre'
Duprevent
Lunawanna,
Tasmania, 7150
Phone: +61 3 6293 2039 or 0403 891 179 E-Mail:
duprevent@bigpond.com Visit: http://www.duprevent.com
Empowering
people to succeed in gently guiding loved ones with Chemical Dependency
harming self and others, born and unborn, get help with dignity and compassion
- before hitting bottom.
Did
you know?
·
Addiction is a brain disorder that prevents seeing reality of harmful
behavior.
· People
with Chemical Dependency cannot ask for help so rarely receive
treatment.
· Most
people want to help self-abusing loved ones get help but do not know how.
· Most people in recovery had someone
to support their first steps to change.
· You can learn to help through 2
Structured Intervention
workshops.
· Most
people in rehabs were sexually violated as
children.
· Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is leading known cause of intellectual/developmental
disability in the western
world.
· When
pregnant mothers consume alcohol, their unborn babies have exact same blood
alcohol level.
·
Alcohol is a teratogen, a substance that affects the brain of developing
fetus.
Australian
Aboriginal life expectancy is 20 years less than other Australians. Aborignal
infants die at same rate as those in impoverished countries.
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Poverty History
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