WEBINAR: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge to Family Healing

Webinar overview

Join us for a compelling webinar exploring a cross-cultural family service grounded in bringing Indigenous knowledge to family healing. This session brings together the voices of First Nations communities, families, therapists, and researchers to share powerful insights and lived experiences that are shaping more responsive, culturally safe practice.

Discover how Single Session Work can be adapted across diverse cultural contexts, and learn practical ways to embed these approaches within your own organisation. Through a focus on cultural humility, storytelling, and values-based relational practice, this webinar highlights what it takes to create meaningful, safe, and effective connections with families.

We’ll also look ahead to the future of this work - examining new directions in training, trauma-informed care, and cross-cultural research, with a strong emphasis on cultural and intergenerational understanding.

Who is this webinar relevant to

Whether you’re a practitioner, service leader, or researcher, this session offers inspiring ideas and actionable insights to strengthen your work in diverse communities by implementing cross cultural practices and single session work

Presenters

Alison Elliott is a First Nations Cultural Consultant to the Bouverie Centre. Alison has proud family connections to Wiradjuri country (Dubbo NSW) but grew up on Dharug country ( Sydney NSW) She also has strong connections to her Irish lineage. The focus of her consultation role spans across many of the pillars at Bouverie, Clinical, Academic, Research and Practice and Service Development programs. Within the Academic space, Alison provides cultural supervision for the Academic Teaching staff, she also provides guest lectures within the 3 years Masters of Family Therapy course and provides continued consultation involvement within the First Nations Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy course.

Within the Clinical work, Alison is a qualified family therapist within the Working the Mob team and sees families within our Wednesday Walk-in Together clinic.

Within the Training space, Alison delivers training within many of Bouverie PD suite of courses and also provides cultural consultancy on adapting existing training into more culturally safe content and the way it is delivered. Alison is also holds a lead facilitator role within We Al li trainings and delivers them nationwide. www.wealli.com.au

Within the Research areas, Alison has been involved in projects relating to the First Nations staff and students and families attending the Bouverie Centre. Alison has also been an investigator and trainer in Professor Cath Chamberlains Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future and the Replanting the Birthing Trees Research Projects (community-based participatory action research project aimed at strengthening foundations for supporting Indigenous parents who have experienced complex childhood trauma) and help with preventing further removals from child protection departments) for the past 8 years.

Kelly Tsorlinis is a trained Social Worker and Clinical Family Therapist and in 2006 completed the Master of Clinical Family Therapy at the Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University. She has worked in the community sector in the areas of community health, family-based services, sexual assault, child protection and child and adolescent psychiatry. She currently works at the Bouverie Centre as a Clinical Family Therapist. Kelly has a clinical interest in mental health and working with children/adolescents and their families, Single Session Work, First Nations families and working with family members with ASD within a systemic framework, trauma - EMDR and Havening Techniques and how these can be integrated within systemic approaches.