“The fragrance of the flower remains on the hand that gives it”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Join us in the spirit of Reconciliation Day, as we acknowledge and pay respects to our Indigenous custodians of the Land. National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.

This workshop will take you on a journey into the ancient and contemporary signature of the iconic healing flower The Desert pea. You will learn to make your own commemorative pea and know how to show others the technique. We will explore how to move respectfully in this sacred space and what it means to speak with one voice from the many. You will emerge from the workshop to carry this story and journey to truth in partnership with a growing throng.

The emblem of the pea sits alongside its cousin the Flanders Poppy as a floral emblem of sorrow and hope to affect rightful and perpetual memorial of equivalent national moral weight to that afforded our fallen soldiers in white Australian history.

About Making PEASce

Making Peace is a movement of the people who by the individual wearing of the hand made pea join together with all Australians who seek to recognise, acknowledge and mourn those who died fighting for their country on Australian soil. We believe that well documented historical records, archives and education whilst vital to truth telling, do not afford personhood to the lost unless there is national ceremony acknowledgement and mourning without the blame and stereotypes of perpetrator and victim.

Details of creative actions at: https://makingpeasce.com/

Speaker Spotlight

Hazel Davies from Making Peasce was born on Dharawal Land to British parents. On this country in 1816, the first declared act of war against First Nation peoples was executed by Governor Macquarie’s troops. From then on the sanctioned and unsanctioned killing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait people spread across the continent. To this day these wars remain largely unrecognised or remembered.

Hazel is a professional florist and teacher and postgraduate theologian specialising in the public commemoration of loss and grief through the symbolism and stories of floral emblems. Ten years ago as a result of research into the lost stories of the Desert Pea Hazel began the journey alongside key first nation mentors to recognise and commemorate Australian Colonial Era Conflicts focusing on the Frontier Wars, massacres and genocidal losses of First Peoples through colonisation.

Hazel works in partnership with First Nations by invitation. Through relationships forged in the making peace yarning circles we are sharing in the New Dreaming. The frontier wars will not end until we find deep healing together. With my fellow Non-Aboriginal people we are exploring the proper way to share the journey toward truth. The murder of our sovereign nations on this land and theft of culture has resulted in the illness of country and peoples that we see today.

Hazel believes that national leadership has stalled on this critical issue and that individuals are powerful agents of change. Making Peace is giving us a voice for this change.

Hazel is married to Owen, her soul mate and ‘guardian Angel’. They share four adult children and six grandchildren who proudly walk with their grannie on this road to forgiveness.

Support Our Charity

You’ll be helping the Indigenous Literacy Foundation too! Proceeds from Sunday Session tickets and your donations, go towards purchasing book packs and supporting literacy programs for our Indigenous youth.

(Speakers are not paid. They’re just so passionate about sharing positive messages and strategies to help you improve your health and well-being.)

More info on Jindii EcoSpa at:

https://www.jindii.com.au/