stories – Aboriginal Child Artists of Carrolup: Healing Trauma

23/01/2023

Author: David Clark on 23/01/2023

‘Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger’ by Barb Wingard and Jane Lester

This blog post is an extract from the book Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger by Barb Wingard and Jane Lester (Dulwich Centre Publications, 2001). The original extract can be found here. [Please note that I broken up some of the long paragraphs in the original […]

20/01/2021

Noongar Smoking Ceremony at Fremantle Round House, 26th January 2017.

Author: David Clark on 20/01/2021

Key Factors Facilitating Indigenous Healing

When I first developed the educational healing resource Sharing Culture back in 2014, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and intergenerational trauma. I summarised what I considered to be 12 principles of healing, which are relevant to Aboriginal people here in Australia […]

12/01/2021

Author: David Clark on 12/01/2021

How I Came to Write About Carrolup, Part 2

Yesterday, I posted the first part of the Preface to my book Connection: Aboriginal Child Artists Captivate Europe, which told the story of how I came to be involved with Carrolup. Here is the continuation of the Preface, which describes my background and how it has influenced my decision […]