Decolonisation in Community Mental Health

Join this interactive workshop into practical ways to consider decolonising our actions in every day life to improve wellbeing. This is a Mental Health week event for Darwin community targeted to the community mental health sector workforce and students. Free event and registrations essential. There is 2 options. Come for Introduction (10 – 12:30) and LUNCH or come for whole day event (10 – 4 pm) . Please choose one option per person. About the workshop. With a particular focus on implications for community mental health and wellbeing more generally, the morning introduction will explore the nature of modern societies contrasted with Indigenous perspectives and worldviews. Decolonial philosophies and practical decolonial actions that flow from these perspectives will also be considered along with potential emergent decolonial futures. Specific topics covered may include the origins, conditions, manacles, malaises and mirages of modernity; ontologies, colonial premises underpinning modern promises along with anarcha-Indigenism, decolonial tips, deep listening, fierce egalitarianism, relational autonomy, inter-dependence, distributed authority, context sensitivity, panjectivity, prefigurativity, primordial freedoms/achievements, knowledge and response-ability, orality, memory, ritual, ceremony, kinship, and Country. During the afternoon, there is an invitation to participate in small group interactive exercises with a focus on implications of decolonial and Indigenous perspectives for community mental health and wellbeing. Activity prompts may focus on the mirages of modernity, Indigenous/decolonial vs. modern worldview manifestations/patterns, how paleolithic are you, Māori speculative student and towards eldering.