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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.

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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 what healing and trauma really means for us. Marninwarntikura is open to new ways of working, it takes time to come together and work together with shared learning and practices. Follow our blog and be a part of our exciting new approach to working and living.

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Flipping your lid - some quick trauma learnings from my first week in Winnipeg

Our brains. See explanation below Re-engaging the brain, see explanation below Welcome to Turtle Island (North America)! I am currently in Winnipeg the capital of the province of Manitoba. The National Human Rights Museum, right at the fork of two rivers Some fast facts about Winnipeg and Manitoba to pull you in. Winnipeg is the third coldest urban centre to live in in the world. I’m feeling the chill! It is at least 50 degrees warmer than its minimum of -40. It is the only province in Canada founded through an act of violence (debatable I am sure). The founder of Manitoba was Louis Riel, a Métis leader, leading a rebellion to form a republic. He was driven into exile by the British and the region became administered by the Anglo-Canadians. Following this, due to severe discrimination , many Métis people had to leave. Winnipeg has the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada, and the second-highest in North America after Anchorage. Alcohol is on...

‘We are all government people’

This blog is titled after a quote from Alanis Obomsawin, a distinguished Indigenous director and maker of the documentary, ‘We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice’, along with many others. I watched this particular one in Winnipeg, but its attention was directed toward the inappropriate decisions made by the centre of the Canadian government in Ottawa. The film explores how First Nation reserves have seen decades of underfunded essential services, which has systematically silenced and disempowered communities, entrenching collective pain and trauma. Alanis spoke after the film. She was an inspiring force, fierce and energetic in her late 80s, and enthused by her own reflections of decades of work and activism. Her belief: when we all see ourselves as government people we applaud success, rectify wrongs, and change ineffective systems for the betterment of all. https://www.nfb.ca/film/we_can_t_make_the_same_mistake_twice/ In Australia, the last week has been of serious ...

Resilience: It’s not magic, we’re not born with it, so how do we get it?

What is it that makes an individual, a family, a community, a society, a nation, and a global citizenry thrive? Could it be resilience? If this is the case, we should be working out how to maximise it against all the odds. Today, in our society, the odds do seem to be against us. I spent the last week in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. For two days, I attended the 7 th annual psychological trauma and Juvenile Justice Conference. It is part of the initiative of the Trauma Informed Care Project from Orchard Place. The aim of the project is to spread the word and change the way we work. Quite literally, the project is working to educate people in understanding the enormity of the evidence of trauma and what we can all to understand recognise and respond to the effects of trauma. http://www.traumainformedcareproject.org/about.php The conference was run by the renowned Dr Bruce Perry, a neuroscientist and child psychiatrist and Dr Stuart Ablon, a child psychiatrist....

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