Deep Listening – Indigenous knowledge and medical practice

The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Well-Being, Adelaide, and the LIME (Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education) Network, will host a public seminar on Friday 12 September.

Ngara – Deep Listening – Seeing ‘Two Ways’: What can Indigenous knowledge, mindfulness and observational skills training bring to medical practice?  will feature speakers Uncle Lewis O’Brien, Kuarna elder; Aunty Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (AO), artist, author, community leader and teacher; Dr Heather Gaunt, Curator of Academic Programs (Research) at The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne; and Professor LC Chan of the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the University of Hong Kong.

The seminar will be facilitated by Flinders Poche Centre Director, Professor Dennis McDermott.

It will run from 9.15am to 12.45pm  at Flinders University Victoria Square.

Please RSVP to di.autio@flinders.edu.au by Wednesday, 10 September if you’d like to attend .

If you’re unable to make it in person, you can stream the seminar on-line, or view it after the event on the LIME Network.

 

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