Dadirri – Deep Listening

Dadirri, or deep listening, is an ancient wisdom practice renewed in contemporary Indigenous culture by Aunty Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann (Nauiyu Elder and Senior Australian of the Year 2021). Dadirri helps us to understand how to walk between worlds and connect with our deeper purpose in life, through listening and finding our connection to nature and community.
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The Miriam Rose Foundation (MRF) supports and encourages education and inspires creativity and self-expression through a series of programs inside and outside of the local community.

Mindfulness is increasingly accepted as the foundation for contemporary evidence-based therapeutic practice. Indigenous mental health leader Ken Zulomovski makes the case that the lack of recognition of Indigenous culture creates an 'elephant in the room' which can only be overcome through real dialogue and recognition of thousands of years of wisdom practice. This workshop explores the synergies across cultures and acknowledges the gift of Dadirri, deep listening, through the encountering work of Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann.

Workshop participants will be able to experience Dadirri based on the Gamarada Community Healing group practice, and will be guided in a gentle dialogue to explore connections between Jung's understanding of the numinous and Indigenous practice wisdom. Jung defines numinous as "inexpressible, mysterious, terrifying, directly experienced, and pertaining only to the divinity" (Jung, 1963).

Dadirri, deep listening, provides guidance for being present, listening, connecting to country, understanding seasonal change, understanding the connection between people and being connected, knowing how to grieve and pay respect when people pass, knowing what to do, and when (Ungunmerr Baumann, A Journey Through Listening, Darwin 2011). Dadirri provides an experiential framework for approaching cross-cultural awareness with respect for the trauma of colonisation and the need for trauma-responsive dialogue.