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✅ A sense of connecting with the therapist (the relationship factors which in turn include including alliance, empathy, expectations, cultural adaptation, and therapist differences

✅ The belief that the therapy will work.
✅ Consistency of the therapy being applied
✅ Competence of the therapist which includes the ability of the therapist to be accepted by the client.

The emergence of the third wave of Psychological therapies (with concepts such as metacognition, acceptance, mindfulness, personal values, and spirituality are frequently incorporated into what might otherwise be considered traditional behavioral interventions. As such third wave psychological thinking is entirely consistent with the Gan’na philosophy. Moreover just as the ancient Buddhist principle of mindfulness has been powerfully incorporated into modern psychological therapy, Gan’na philosophy can be equally guide modern psychological practise. This is particularly relevant when working with cultures and groups such as Indigenous Australians who have survived over 60, 000 years through collective action, as discussed in modern developmental psychological theory.

Gan’na is a word that means to “listen deep”

Gan’na is an Indigenous word from the Bundjalung people in Northern NSW that means to listen, hear, think, feel and understand. Indigenous people have always used listening as a form of learning traditional culture over the past 60,000 years.
Hearing is a place in which individuals start to acknowledge the place they are sitting in while at the same time sitting in stillness. Listening can be understood a bit different than hearing as it is more about listening to the deepness of stories that may be shared from another person. Thinking is created once there has been a place in which people are starting to hear and listen to each other; it is where Indigenous people start to think about their experiences in life, so that they can start to acknowledge the feelings that connect to their experiences. These feelings are a place that may be filled with good or not so good experiences. It is here that these experiences may need the deep attention of hearing, listening, feeling and thinking, so people can start to understand their journeys.

Gan’na is a holistic Indigenous word that captures not only what it means to “listen deep”, but to also capture The Dreaming and Lore, an important part of all Indigenous people’s continuous culture, beliefs and healing processes.

Gan’na looks at how traditional healing responds to the most important parts of the brain, we don’t just implement healing practise because they sound good, we implement the right practise that directly stimulates different parts of the brain, creating holistic healing for the whole body.

We implement traditional practise because we know it works. It is grounded in 60,000 years of practice. Recently we also know it is consistent with findings of functional MRI studies which show in real time changes that occur in the brain, when the brain pathways are activated under certain therapeutic conditions consistent with the dismantling studies referenced above.

We don’t only offer education; we provide detailed education that is linked with traditional practises so that anyone entering our workshops can go home and continue to use the tools we offer. If healing processes are not embedded with the right practises, then the brains healing does not take place which is why preforming the traditional healing practise side by side with the education allows the body to enter what can be best described as intergenerational memory and intergenerational healing takes place.

All of our workshops with communities or individuals always included highly skilled facilitators that identified as Indigenous Australians. We are an Indigenous organisations that strives to deliver best practise which means we only send people with nothing less than 2 years experiences in rural remote communities.

All Indigenous peoples well-being is made whole again.

Love, Loyalty, Respect, Healing, Culture, Connection.

To deliver best trauma informed practices to all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, as well as skilling up the Australian workforce, through a unique Indigenous pedagogy, allowing all Australians the opportunity to learn and respond as frontline trauma specialist.