Episode 20: Collective Healing: Indigenous Wisdom with William Hayward

In Shake It Off Episode 20 Lauren and Kendra speak with special guest and Lauren’s good friend William Hayward.

William Hayward is a Noongar man from the Gorang/Minang clan groups. He has been raised to live with the integrity and honor of his people's culture, their customs, and the strengths embedded in his family and community systems. He works and lectures at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies and continues to support the ‘Navigating through life project’ for children in out of home care in the Social Work department at Curtin University.   ​

Will has a wealth of knowledge. Throughout his career has has worked in Government agencies and Non-Profit Organizations. He has developed a unique set of skills in delivering services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Child protection & safety in the areas of counseling, policy, and law reform, cultural competency and practice, trauma-informed practice and frameworks, social work, youth work, program development, lobbying, advocacy, cultural ceremony and healing performing arts.​ 

He is strongly committed to empowering Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander and Non-Aboriginal Australians to achieve equality and freedoms in a variety of practice or community environments. 

Lauren and Kendra sit with Will while he shares stories about his work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and trauma-informed practices and Aboriginal wisdom traditions for collective healing, including ceremony, ritual, connection to land, and much much more.

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William Hayward I Associate Lecturer | Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University

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Will Hayward at Roundhouse Smoking Ceremony at Dumbartung:  https://dumbartung.org.au/roundhouse-smoking-ceremony/

William Hayward Bathers Beach Fremantle Smoking Ceremony 

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