Investigators
Amy Finlay-Jones, Bep Uink
Collaborators
Emily Carter (MWRC), Jadnah Davies (MWRC), Sue Thomas (MWRC), Lauren Rice (MWRC), Roz Walker (UWA), Petra Skeffington (Murdoch)
Partners
Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre (MWRC)
Marra Worra Worra
Project description
In this project, we aim to understand how mindfulness, compassion, and related constructs are experienced by Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. We will use two-way learning to develop a conceptual map and experience-based co-design to develop a program framework and corresponding strategies. Together, this will help us to develop resources that can be used by Aboriginal community workers to support their own wellbeing, as well as a series of strategies to use in their work with communities.
The benefits of this project include (1) gaining theoretical, practical, and experiential understanding of compassion and mindfulness in Aboriginal communities; (2) developing a community-owned mindfulness/compassion-based resource to support community wellbeing; and (3) building workforce capacity to deliver programs using the resource.
Anticipated long-term benefits include greater sustainability of Aboriginal community workers in the workforce, thereby supporting the provision of compassionate and culturally-secure care to communities, which in turn is expected to promote wellbeing among community members.
Funding
Healthway