Red Dust Healing workshops

The ongoing impacts of natural disasters and COVID-19 created the need for grief and trauma support for the communities in Southern NSW.

COORDINARE funded six Red Dust Healing workshops in Narooma, Ulladulla, Eden, Queanbeyan, Goulburn and Yass, attended by 180 participants free of charge. The workshops were facilitated by Barry Fernando, a proud Yuwaalaraay man within Gamilaroi nation. 

Red Dust Healing is a cultural healing program, written from an Indigenous perspective, and focused for Indigenous as well as non-Indigenous men, women and families. The intention of these workshops was to bring community members together and support their recovery in a practical and evidence informed way.

An amazing day, I took more from it than I expected. Having images to help describe emotions, managing distress and big emotions will be helpful in my work.

Workshop participant

I 100% recommend this for my family, especially the men in my family.

Workshop participant

I loved how Barry presented the program. Very engaging, calming and real. These tools I can use in my work with families. So much intergenerational trauma and parents carrying rejection.

Workshop participant