The Centre for Remote Health is hosting international experts in Indigenous health in a suite of events designed to empower participants to build health in the Northern Territory.

Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy are returning to Australia to deliver workshops and events from 19 to 23 August, building on their very popular presentations last year at the ‘Culture is Medicine‘ seminar and ‘Practices for Bringing Culture into Mental Health Care’ workshop at the Centre for Remote Health.

Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona is a physician, psychiatrist, neuropsychologist and geriatrician affiliated with the University of New England College of Medicine in Maine, USA. Of North American indigenous origins, he is focused on traditional North American healing and healers, including their efficacy for mental and physical illnesses, approach to work, role in managing diabetes, role in preventing domestic violence and their relationships with family medicine.

Barbara Mainguy MA is a psychotherapist with strong roots in Indigenous cultures, working with Wabanaki Health and Wellness, an urban NGO that provides services to Aboriginal people off-reserve. She has also consulted to Aboriginal nations in Australia about bringing their own culture into their health care.

Events with Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy:

Two-eyed seeing cultural workshop series

Incorporating circle Processes
Understand, participate in, and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to implement talking circles
When: Monday 19 August 9:30am- 3:30pm
Where: DoubleTree Hilton, 82 Barrett Drive Alice Springs

Culturally friendly ways of addressing addictions
Learn about our own type of Narrative Therapy to especially support Indigenous people with addictions
When: Tuesday 20 August 9:30am- 3:30pm
Where: DoubleTree Hilton, 82 Barrett Drive Alice Springs

Addressing suicide prevention and working with people who have attempted
When: Wednesday 21 August 9:30am- 3:30pm
Where: DoubleTree Hilton, 82 Barrett Drive Alice Springs

Culturally Syntonic Forms of Counselling and Creating Functional Multi-Disciplinary Teams
When: Thursday 22 August 9:30am- 3:30pm
Where: DoubleTree Hilton, 82 Barrett Drive Alice Springs

For registration contact the Centre for Remote Health at crh.seminars@flinders.edu.au