Hello trauma informed friends,
I am thankful that you are here. Below is a call for human rights and a trauma informed Australia. This is not to sign unless you are an Australian. I imagine you might be from all around the world. It is here to plant a seed if other countries wish to do the same. One week after I made this call, I found Dr Gabor Maté was releasing his Premier of the film The Wisdom of Trauma.
Experts across the world increasingly call for trauma informed change. One person at a time. One service at a time. One nation at a time. You have my permission to use this petition and adapt it as required. If you are from Australia, you are welcome to add your name using the link below. You might also want to watch #IncarcerationNation.
My hope is that Trauma Informed World illustrates the beauty, breadth and versatility of Trauma Informed Care. I have included a few systems from cultures that touched my life in a profound way. You will see that Trauma Informed Care does not replace them.
“It is for everyone else to reflect on the labels white people give us and fight to assert our own identities outside of the boxes they try to put us in – ethnic, indigenous, multicultural, diverse, migrant, etc.
It is for everyone else to fight for our terminologies, for our capital letters, for our right to belong unchallenged and unquestioned, for our right to determine for ourselves even something as simple as our own names.”
https://indigenousx.com.au/
Trauma Informed Care provides the space for any Wisdom Tradition to thrive because it is not shut down with silence or judgment, blame, punishment, stigma or shame. Rather, all Wisdom Traditions are fostered using the Principles of Trauma Informed Care: safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment. Far from replacing them, I would like to thank each for relentlessly passing on wisdom:
You can listen to Dr. Cathy Kezelman AM, the president of Blue Knot Foundation, and I chatting together with Brainwaves 3CR Community Radio about the value of Trauma Informed Care here:
https://www.3cr.org.au/brainwaves
Now you know the power of Trauma Informed Care. Let’s turn this framework into a mindset for personal, social and political change. If you are unable to, you might need help first, to get safe or become ‘unstuck’ from trauma. Reach out for trauma informed care. #YouBelong
With love,
Dr Louise Hansen
Psychologist
PhD in Psychology
Human Rights Activist
#HealingTrauma #Justice4Australia #YouBelong
“I don’t speak my father’s native tongue
I was born under the Southern sun
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t know where I belong
My great granddaddy was Wiradjuri
My father came here from the Philippine
It’s where I live, it’s where I wanna be
Ooh, but you make me feel so ill at ease
I don’t speak my father’s native tongue
I was born under the Southern sun
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t know where I belong
It’s easy enough for you to say
It ain’t no thing
But I’m the one, you ain’t the one
Been living in this skin
If you wanna call me somethin’
Call it to my face
But I will not apologise for takin’ up this space
Every time you cut me down
I’m gonna come back fierce
The time is through for bein’ nice
Let’s call it what it is
I don’t speak my father’s native tongue
I was born under the Southern sun
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t speak my father’s native tongue
I was born under the Southern sun
I don’t know where I belong
I don’t know where I belong.”
#YouBelong
https://youtu.be/JLQ4by3lUJo
https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/
https://incarcerationnation.com.au
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
If you would like to donate, please visit:
https://www.thejilyainstitute.com.au/about-us/
“Being fierce advocates is at the heart of what we do at the ASRC and now even that is under attack. We’ve joined forces with Hands Off Our Charities (HOOC) alliance made up of charity and civil society across the country to fight against the new regulations that could see charities deregistered for engaging in advocacy activities.”
https://asrc.org.au
Advocating for asylum-seekers: lessons from the pandemic:
https://youtu.be/MKG849csk74
Trauma Informed World was inspired by Kopika and Tharnicaa; two faces that remind us everyday of Australia’s cruel refugee system. One of many systems in Australia that remind us of the negative operation of power. #HomeToBilo
https://www.hometobilo.com
***Since the creation of this website the Biloela family were released from detention, returned to Biloela and granted permanent protection in Australia. However, hundreds more people still remain stuck in a system that requires urgent reform.***
Welcome to the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. Join us to make positive changes for refugees around the world.
https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/
New Kaldor Centre policy brief proposes reforms to Australia’s temporary protection system | Kaldor Centre:
https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/new-kaldor-centre-policy-brief-proposes-reforms-australia%E2%80%99s-temporary-protection-system
You can listen my talk with Dr Cathy Kezelman AM, the President of Blue Knot Foundation on my own healing journey, training and study and how it has informed my work and advocacy for a trauma informed world here:
Australia’s National Helplines and Websites:
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/national-help-lines-and-websites
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