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an easy journey to communicate, there has always treatment frameworks and theoretical understandings
been resistance from mainstream service providers to in this country. My ongoing learning is around how to
dampen Indigenous ways of practicing Social Work embed connection to earth and its elements in a
and to enforce western ideologies onto the wellbeing framework which endorses and revives Aboriginal
of Aboriginal peoples. culture and connection. As Aboriginal people we not
only need Mother Earth she too needs us to not only
I hope to undertake my Masters in Play Therapy this survive but to thrive.
year and develop an Indigenous trauma informed
model of care which will provide an Aboriginal
framework to addresses colonising trauma. I hope to
offer a perspective that acknowledges and supports Miimi Morris is Aboriginal
cultural healing and connection to country and Australian and a survivor of the
connection to the true self as an Indigenous person, Stolen Generation. She is of
Dunghutti
Kamillaroi
and
promoting the healing powers of culture. I feel that to descent from NSW. Miimi
offer a genuine and just social work practice to my currently works as a Social
people it has to begin with connection to culture and Worker, counselling Aboriginal
country. Without acknowledging this fundamental way children and their families. She
of being, social work practice with Aboriginal people is developing a new theory of Indigenous Social Work
is devoid of a legitimate meaning of what it is to be practice in Australia.
culturally empowered as an Aboriginal person and
practice in a culturally competent way. Country and
cultural connection seem to be a major missing link in

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