Listening to hear | Dreaming big | Whichway Now
The Healing Foundation has been working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders to co-design and develop the first ever Queensland Healing Strategy since January, 2020.
We have heard from over 400 people through yarning circles, interviews, forums and online survey. We’ve had yarning circles in Cairns, Gold Coast, Inala, Rockhampton, St George and Yarrabah with Elders, young people, families, community organisations, healers and Stolen Generations survivors.
The Healing Foundation is recognised as a leader in healing nationally working with and enabling Stolen Generations survivors and their families to speak for themselves, to tell their own stories and to be in charge of their own healing.
Bringing our trauma aware healing informed knowledge, evidence based research and innovation to community led healing initiatives, we create a place of safety for Stolen Generations survivors and their families where their voices can be heard.
“The Healing Foundation provides the tools, evidence and frameworks for people to develop healing activities in their communities. We meet communities where they are at. When they tell us what they wish they knew – and we can provide them with research, a tool, a case study. All the research is there, and by our own researchers. That’s empowering in itself.”
Fiona Peterson, CEOWe don’t want to be told how to do this – we want to be supported to do this our way, the old way but with new things included. We know how to evolve with the times, that what we do and that’s who we are, but we can’t evolve unless it’s our way.
St George Elder
As we develop the Queensland Healing Strategy, we are committed to providing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders with information about existing healing initiatives, programs, services and approaches that are already working, along with a range of tools, resources and evidence of what works to empower communities to help lead their own healing.
