Country Knows: Listening to Nymboida - Country as co-therapist. River as guide. Circle as container. Self as remembering (a partnerships between We Al-li and Walkabout Training).

Name: Country Knows: Listening to Nymboida - Country as co-therapist. River as guide. Circle as container. Self as remembering (a partnerships between We Al-li and Walkabout Training).
Start: 2025-10-16T12:00:00+1000
End: 2025-10-17T12:00:00+1000
Location: Nymboida Camping and Canoeing and Wagtails Cafe

Thu, 16 Oct, 12pm - 17 Oct, 12pm AEST

Nymboida Camping and Canoeing and Wagtails Cafe

Nymboida NSW, Australia

We Al-li and Walkabout Training

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Event description

Join us on the banks of the Nymboida River on Gumbaynggirr Country for an afternoon, evening and morning of learning about We Al-li’s Culturally Informed Trauma-Integrated Healing (CITIHA) approach. Together, we’ll walk a path of remembering, reconnection, and renewal held by Country. The following day Mark Cartner from Walkabout Training will take participants on an experiential lesson in canoes on the Nymboida River where you will all discuss using the outdoors for therapeutic outcomes putting this approach into a practical session and demonstrating use of outcomes ratings.

What we’ll do:

Sit in circle and practice deep listing, guided by We Al-li facilitators
Map personal and collective trauma stories using natural materials
Walk with the river listening, reflecting, and learning from Country as a co-therapist
Engage in creative activities and land-based mindfulness for emotional integration
Participate in a fire yarning circle
Close with a reflective collective art piece - a return to wholeness
Demonstrate maintaining physical, emotional and cultural safety.

Country teaches. We listen. Healing follows.

Accommodation: Nymboida Camping and Canoeing and Wagtails Café
This is your responsibility. You have a choice of basic camping, dorms, en-suite etc. Phone the venue to book your own accommodation: (02) 6649 4155

Physical ability required: This workshop will involve an easy canoe paddle of about 3.5 kilometres on moving water no faster than grade 1. Journey is suitable for beginners; some mobility will be required to navigate the bank on put in and take out. Please contact Mark Cartner on mark@walkabouttraining.com.au if you have any questions regarding the canoe journey and we will make all possible arrangements to include all abilities.

Transport: We strongly encourage you all to organise your own transport. If this is not possible Mark from Walkabout Training has a 14-seater bus that he will be able to ferry participants to and from Lennox Heads to the venue. Please indicate on registration form if you require transport.

Safety and Insurance: Insurance is covered under Walkabout Training. We will have a first aid kit with us, 2 of the Facilitators have a current First Aid Certificate and 2 people are trained in swift water rescue.

Proceeds: Part of the proceeds of ticket sales will be used to provide students from the Bundaberg area the opportunity to pursue their Certificate III in Outdoor Leadership, aiming to support low socio economic and Indigenous students who might otherwise miss out. These students will be assisting with the logistics of this workshop to pay back their opportunity.

You can view Workshop Workflow here: CLICK HERE TO VIEW

This event is linked to the Outdoor Health Forum being held in Lennox Head, 17th-19th October”: www.outdoorhealthforum.com.au