Creating Cultural Safety for Aboriginal People, Understanding Attachment Networks & Responding to Trauma | ACA Members Assessment
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn about the attachment networks, experiences and needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. Led by highly experienced clinicians/trainers from the Bouverie Centre Indigenous Team – Banu Moloney and Alison Elliott (more info below).
- This 4 hour workshop addressed Culturally Safe Trauma-Informed Practices in our work with First Nations Communities.
- Develops an understanding of child and adolescent development and attachment within a collectivist framework.
- Looks at the crucial role of questions to guide the process of engaging First Nations People.
- Creates an appreciation of the etiology of trauma for First Nations Peoples
- Develops a beginning understanding of the impact of colonisation on attachment processes for First Nations People
Alison Elliott is a Clinical Family Therapist and Workforce Development Trainer, Indigenous Team, The Bouverie Centre. Alison has family connections to Wiradjuri country and also has strong connections to her Celtic heritage; she grew up on Dharug country (Hawkesbury River NSW). Alison is a trainer in the Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy (Bouverie Centre) and with the Strengthening Connections Program for Women in Prison Research Project. She is involved with “Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future” (HPNF) Research Project. She is also a lead facilitator for We Al-Li, which provides Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approach (CITIHA) Trainings to Individuals, Families, Communities and Organisations.
Areas of particular interest include research, work with traumatised and grieving individuals to assist people to restore meaning and purpose by recreating old practices with contemporary rituals and ceremonies and working with young children, using play and other creative techniques.
Banu Moloney is a lecturer at The Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University. She is a qualified Social Worker, Psychologist and Family Therapist. She has over 40 years’ experience as a family therapist with a special interest in working with children and adolescents in the context of their families. She also specialises in supervision and has published and presented at Counselling and Family Therapy Conferences in Australia and overseas in this area.
For the last 12 years Banu has been a member of the Indigenous team at the Bouverie centre. This work has involved delivering a Post graduate certificate in Family Therapy to Indigenous Child and Family Workers. This has involved evolving and redesigning family therapy training to be culturally congruent and to bring Indigenous wisdoms to working teaching and clinical work.
