Marninwarntikura - discovering healing, understanding trauma

The rodeo was in full swing at the local Fitzroy rodeo grounds this weekend! Whips were whacking and cracking, bulls were bucking, and the crowds jeering and cheering. Kids and families came out in big numbers to watch, and participate. There was a fantastic community atmosphere of all getting behind the talents and courage of local riders and stockmen.   Our CEO, June Oscar joined Gillarong Community Inc as the Vice Chair to put on this great event. June and people throughout the region have a deep attachment and ongoing involvement with station life. The Kimberley is steeped in a recent heritage of families living and working on cattle stations. There are many fascinating family connections and troubling tensions and inequalities associated with the pastoral industries involvement across Northern Australia. There is joy, pain, nostalgia and anger when people reflect on station life. These are some of the many contradictory emotions Marninwarntikura is exploring as we come to

Marninwarntikura is on a journey. We are discovering what it means to be a Healing Informed and Trauma Aware organisation and community. Join us as we talk to women, children and families across our organisation and community about safety, care and nurture. Trace with us stories of resilience and courage and learn how we are encouraging and building on strengths. Stand beside us as we listen deeply to what people love, and how every day, people are learning from lived experience to confront and overcome adversity. We are also looking beyond the Fitzroy Valley to the worlds and lives of others who are doing similar work to us. Follow our blog to discover the exciting learning of communities finding ways to understand and overcome all forms of trauma, and exploring the knowledge and practices of healing.   Our Healing Informed and Trauma Aware blog is here to record all of what we do. We want you to see the challenges, the questions and the triumphs as we work to understand wh