Ash Dargan: Dadirri - Deep Listening
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, November 15, 2024 |
| 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
Overview
An ancient cultural practise of Mindfulness, connection and wellbeing explored through some of the worlds oldest wind blown instrument traditions from Australia, the Americas and the Pacific.
Details
Ash will be presenting on culturally informed therapeutic approaches to wellbeing and Dadirri (deep listening) an Aboriginal ancient practise of mindfulness. Participants will explore through storytelling, live musical performance and group activities some of the cultural practices of Dadirri used when working in community recovery and training professionals in Culturally informed therapeutic care. The workshop is structured to connect individuals to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander determinants of Social and Emotional Wellbeing. This framework underpins all current Aboriginal mental health and wellbeing frameworks in the country.
Many First Nations cultural practises can be mapped to neurodevelopmental enrichment activities. Dr. Judy Atkinson presented this in the 2013 Australian Institute of Family Studies resource, ‘Trauma-informed services and trauma-specific care for Indigenous Australian children’.
This presentation will showcase cultural wind blown instruments from Australia, the Americas and the pacific that Ash has studies over decades through deep immersion into the cultures of these regions.
Speaker
Ash Dargan
Dadirri - Deep Listening with Ash Dargan
Biography
Ash is a Larrakia cultural artist, storyteller, adventurer and educator from Darwin in the Top End. He is one of Australia’s most recorded Yidaki instrumentalists and has achieved worldwide acclaim for his unique style of storytelling and live musical performance. He became a cultural ambassador for the Northern Territory throughout the world during the 2000’s with his multi media storytelling show ‘Territory’. Ash was nominated ‘best new release’ at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA) in 2000 and another in 2008 at the Native American Music Awards (NAMA) in the USA.
Ash mentored under Professor Judy Atkinson whilst obtaining his Master of Indigenous Studies in 2011. Dr. Atkinson’s work has led trauma informed approaches to community recovery in Australia and the application of culturally informed therapeutic responses to generational trauma.
