Moondani Balluk, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Indigenous, Moondani Balluk, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Dec;70(3-4):352-364. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12607. Epub 2022 Aug 1.
Research has highlighted the importance of Indigenous knowledge and cultural practice in healing from ongoing histories of trauma, dispossession, and displacement for Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere. Connection with culture, Country, and kinship has been identified as protective factors for Aboriginal social and emotional well-being and as facilitating cultural healing. This paper draws on stories mediated through cultural practice specifically, Wayapa and bush-dyeing workshops, to explore how women resignified experiences and engaged in "healing work." Our collaborative analysis of the stories shared resulted in three main themes that capture dialogs about the need for culturally safe spaces, vulnerability and identity, and culture, Country, and place. Centering Aboriginal knowledge, our analysis shows the meanings of Country, spirituality, and the coconstitution of people, culture, and the natural environment. Through Indigenous cultural practice, the women "grew strength in relationship" as they engaged in the psychosocial processes of deconstruction, reclamation, and renarrating personal and cultural identities.
研究强调了在澳大利亚和其他地方，原住民从持续的创伤、剥夺和流离失所的历史中疗愈时，本土知识和文化实践的重要性。与文化、土地和亲属关系的联系被确定为保护原住民社会和情感福祉的因素，并促进文化疗愈。本文通过文化实践（特别是 Wayapa 和丛林染色工作坊）中介的故事，探讨了女性如何重新定义经验并进行“疗愈工作”。我们对分享的故事进行了协作分析，得出了三个主题，这些主题捕捉了关于需要文化安全空间、脆弱性和身份以及文化、土地和地方的对话。我们的分析以原住民知识为中心，展示了土地、精神和人与自然环境的共同构成的意义。通过原住民文化实践，女性在参与解构、重新占有和重新讲述个人和文化身份的心理社会过程中，“在关系中增强力量”。
