PD: Listening on Country

How do we listen well, with humility, depth, and responsibility, to the stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples? How do we ensure that our ministries of spiritual direction and companionship are grounded in truth-telling, cultural safety, and genuine respect for Country and community?

This is a beginning workshop for spiritual directors/companions in the skills, posture, humility, and accountability required to listen well to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to attend deeply to Country, story, spiritual sovereignty, trauma history, and relational protocols.

In person/online

BYO lunch, journal, pen

Hot drinks and biscuits provided

Zoom link provided prior to the event

Facilitator: Naomi Wolfe

Naomi Wolfe is a trawloolway woman, and Academic Dean of the University of Divinity’s Indigenous Studies program with Whitley College and NAIITS: an Indigenous learning community. Naomi holds a Bachelor Arts and Bachelor of Teaching and is finalising a Masters of Philosophy (Research) degree at Australian Catholic University, writing about the lives of the Hasmonean and Herodian women of the Late Second Temple Period. She is a graduate of the University of Divinity, having received a Graduate Certificate in Divinity in 2019. Naomi will also remain an academic within the ACU Faculty of Education and Arts. Naomi encourages a collaborative learning between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff and students at the University to break down barriers destroy stereotypes and to cultivate new relationships based on respect. She has a professional and personal interest in Indigenous cross-cultural training and awareness as well as Indigenous pedagogies and theology.

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