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Deep Listening in Action
An Ancient Community Development Model for the 21 st Century
                                                        Dr Laura Brearley and Friends




  Photography   Terry Melvin
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The tepee was erected during a cross-cultural exchange between Australian and Canadian Indigenous people as part of the Deep Listening Project
Tepee at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada belonging to the Centre for Aboriginal Leadership and Management
Elder Tom Crane Bear, a Siksika Elder , conducts a smoking ceremony in the tepee during the cross-cultural exchange
Prayer
What is Deep Listening?
Vicki Couzens
Keerray Woorroong / Gunditjmara Woman
Vicki Couzens
For Aboriginal people Deep Listening comes naturally
It’s about walking on the land
Softly quietly
And listening to the stories around the campfire


We’ve got to listen to the wind in the trees
Listen to the birds
It’s the feeling of a gift
A gift always comes back




                                                       Ron Murray
                                                       Wamba Wamba
Elder Tom Crane Bear
         Blackfoot Siksika
Everything is connected and doing its work
If the system breaks we all get sick
The trees purify the air that we breathe
The rocks purify the water that we drink
The trees drink that water
And give us branches and leaves
We know about the Creator who made everything
The planets and the sun
What is Deep Listening?




                     Everything is holy
Deep Listening is an Aboriginal concept which translates as …
  Deep and respectful listening which builds community
Deep Listening Circles
The ritual was underpinned by Deep Listening, an Aboriginal
concept which means deep and respectful listening which builds
community
We are all connected
Jing      Ting


敬 聽
Respect   Listen
The characters for Deep Listening incorporate


Heaven
People
Earth
Ear
Eye
Heart
Respect
Authority
Ten
One


And the relationships between all of these
Traditional Chinese characters have been passed down through the ages
Each character has a story with multiple layers of meaning
The layers of meaning in this combination of characters involve …




                        Listening respectfully
Knowing our position in relation to Heaven and Earth
Listening in the context of surroundings – Land, People, Heaven and Earth
Oneness of mind and heart
Being connected to all things
Relationality to the Land
Understanding relationality
Giving your undivided attention
Giving yourself wholeheartedly
Involving total dedication
Treahna Hamm
      Yorta Yorta
Dunghala Dilly Bag Treahna Hamm
There’s a strengthening of the bond we have when we get together




 There’s a sharing of stories
 In our stories we come to know ourselves
We look up at the sky and we see the clouds
We see the blue gaps in between


The gaps matter
They link the clouds together


The shapes we see in the clouds may differ
But the sky and the clouds connect us all
The world is not as we would like it …




                                         Ben Okri
Don McIntyre

Ojibway of Tamiskaming First Nation
Things need to change




                        They must
We start as blank canvases




  And transform along the way
If we’re stuck
We need to move forward
Moth is the transformer
The dark transformer
The Moth Medicine is helping us all to move through




                                        We are at our most present in crisis
In the Shadowlands
There are no secrets
Time and space don’t work in the same way
Everything plays back into the spiral
There is a point where it stops being about us




                             Our work here is connected to a much larger project
Our community includes the Creator
We are in the protective arms of the Creator
France Trepanier in conversation with Laura Brearley
The Shearwater Project: Celebrating Biyadin




Building partnerships, cross-cultural understanding and environmental awareness
Billie’s message …




Please look after the shearwaters and look after our oceans for the shearwaters

Take good care of them and give them love

Make sure they come home safely
Cowes Primary School Grade 4
Cowes Primary School Grade 4
Cowes Primary School Grade 4
VERSE 1
Guyup guyup           Birds
Wuwan gabuthdui       Fly over the
Warrin warrin         Sea
Nunnin all together   All together
VERSE 2
Guyup guyup           Birds
Wuwan gabuthdui       Fly over the
Wurru wurru           Sky
Nunnin all together   All together
CHORUS
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Whistling in the wind
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Calling in the Spring
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Dancing on the wing
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Connecting everything
VERSE 3
Guyup guyup           Birds
Wuwan gabuthdui       Fly on the
Mummut mummut         Wind
Nunnin all together   All together
VERSE 4
Guyup guyup           Birds
Wuwan gabuthdui       Fly on the
Wilam wilam           Home
Nunnin all together   All together
Chorus
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Whistling in the wind
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Calling in the Spring
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Dancing on the wing
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Connecting everything
Chorus
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Whistling in the wind
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Calling in the Spring
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Dancing in the sun
Boonwurrung Biyadin … Connecting everyone
further information

        Dr Laura Brearley
Coordinator, Deep Listening Project
  laura.brearley@tlc21.com.au
          0434 596800

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