Connecting Cultures Breakfast

Connecting cultures: NAIDOC week breakfast and Acknowledgement workshop

Join us at University House for a meaningful NAIDOC Week breakfast, starting with a Welcome to Country. We will then journey together through "Creating a Heartfelt Acknowledgement" workshop with Jem Stone, where we explore simple step by step ways we can all connect with and show our gratitude to the land we live, work and play through a meaningful acknowledgement to Country for all occasions. 

Open to all students, staff, and alumni, this event during NAIDOC Week promotes cultural appreciation, understanding, and reconciliation. Let us come together, learn from one another, and take part in building a more inclusive and harmonious campus community.

Jem Stone Bio

Jem Stone is a First Nations Woman, Educator and Wellness Practitioner with mixed heritage from around the globe who is passionately integrating original knowledge into education and wellness spaces through connection and decolonised learning methods.

Working and training in the wellness industry for over twenty years, Jem Stone arrived in healing spaces through her own personal healing journey and continues to walk her healing path and dedicates much of her time learning from Elders and other cultural teachers.

Jem is passionate about creating safe, inclusive, decolonised spaces for healing.

Jem is a Wayapa Wuurrk Practitioner and Trainer, Rebirthing Breathwork Therapist and Educator, We Al-li Facilitator, Meditation and Yoga instructor, Cultural consultant, and trainer to the wellness industry, creates and facilitates workshops and programs for various audiences, from the corporate world to pre-school aged children.

Jem currently lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Lands of Naarm, Northern Suburbs of Melbourne and travels regularly to share this work around the continent. She walks gently wherever she is.

Most importantly, Jem considers herself an Earth Custodian, finding deeper ways to connect and care for Country through decolonised ways of knowing, being and doing and encouraging others to remember their place as Earth People and live in stewardship.

It’s only through Mother Earth that anything is possible.