Healing Self, Community & Country.
Acknowledging Elders Past and Present.
Australia is home to one of the oldest living cultures on this planet and our Gumbaynggirr Ancestors still continue to walk in communion with our mother earth. For thousands of years our Ancestors have practiced ceremony on this earth to keep all life in balance through all the changes that occur. This ceremony must continue and take place in these times of great change in order to continue the Dreaming.
It is with our deepest love and respect that we acknowledge and give thanks to our Gumbaynggirr Ancestors for giving us the place to support and walk with them to continue the ceremony in communion with our mother earth.
Projects
Our Projects provide an opportunity for people to access creative, cultural, motivational and educational support that is holistic, and to gain and share cultural and scientific knowledge based on sustainability. This sustainability is defined by connected and creative relationships with the land, each other, and culture as expressed from the Dreaming. This ensures the continuation of a way of being that has supported a true sustainability for thousands of years, held by the oldest living culture on the planet.
Programs & Retreat Packages
We offer Cultural Teaching Programs and Retreat Packages that provide a Gumbaynggirr cultural experience for the guests/ participants as they engage in ceremonial practice. This experience of cultural teaching is offered in three stages, which include the Murlarla, Waluugirr and Garlawaygam. These Programs and Retreat Packages offer an experience that is life changing as guests/participants are given an opportunity to be connected in with the Gumbaynggirr Dreaming.
Our Team
The following people are core to the establishment and ongoing development of Gumbaynggirr Jagun.
“The Dreaming continues...… Time before time and time after time.”
— Aunty Elaine Walker, Respected Gumbaynggirr Elder
Our Vision.
Today it is clear that the world is in crisis arising from social conflicts and ongoing damage to our earth and environment. In response many people are looking for more respectful ways to live with the natural world, its people and all living forms. Now that people are in this awareness Gumbaynggirr Jagun feel the time is right to share Gumbaynggirr traditional practices of being in relationship with self, each other and the earth, and to offer these teachings for a better way.
Gumbaynggirr Jagun is a place of Healing Self, Community and Country in the current challenging times. The Gumbaynggirr peoples’ Dreaming will form the spiritual guidance for work at the Centre and the underpinning philosophy is built around connection and caring for country through the work of community.
Contact
Please contact us for more information.
Email
contact@gumbaynggirrjagun.org
Phone:
Neeyan Smith (Project Coordinator) - 0481 713 609
Aunty Shaa Smith (Cultural Facilitator/Consultant) - 0434 470 761