Recreating Songlines from Trauma Trails: The Ceremony of Indigenous Facilitation Practice - Country Holds the Space
Fri, 17 Oct
|Lennox Head
This one-hour presentation, designed for the Outdoor Health Forum, explores Indigenous Facilitation Practice as a Country-led, trauma-integrated healing process.
Time & Location
17 Oct 2025, 5:00 pm AEDT – 19 Oct 2025, 5:00 pm AEDT
Lennox Head, Northern End Pacific Parade, Lennox Head NSW 2478, Australia
About The Event
Grounded in the principle that Country holds the space, this session highlights how the natural world is not just the setting but a central participant in therapeutic and restorative work.
Participants will be guided through the cultural, ceremonial, and embodied foundations of Indigenous healing practice, approaches that have long existed within First Nations communities and resonate deeply with outdoor health modalities. The presentation focuses on how to create and sustain culturally safe circles for truth-telling and storytelling, mapping trauma, and recreating personal and collective songlines.
Key components of the session include:
Establishing safety through cultural protocol and ceremony on Country
Understanding the Country as co-therapist and knowledge-holder
Mapping trauma through embodied, creative processes: art, movement, music, storytelling