Elements and Performance Criteria
- Participate in a facilitated group healing process
- Develop and agree to rules for participation in a healing group as part of a group, ensuring safety, confidentiality and cultural security during and after the process
- Practise verbal and non-verbal communication skills within the group
- Practise self reflection and record key issues
- Disclose self selected past emotional influences with the group involved in the healing process and relate to the present situation and potential future issues
- Examine trans-generational trauma with the group using appropriate techniques
- Observe local cultural traditions and practice
- Acknowledge traditional ownership of the land and seek permission to allow the healing process to take place on the land
- Recognise the presence of traditional land owners in the healing process, including their role in the spiritual aspects of the healing process
- Clarify local kinship structures, roles and obligations through discussion with elders
- Acknowledge the importance of the support processes of extended families in preparation for healing and in undergoing a healing process
- Discuss cultural grieving processes
- Support self-expression and healing through art, dancing, storytelling, singing and/or painting