A First Nations Emotional Wellbeing Program for Kindergarten
This program supports educators to introduce calm, focus, and emotional balance into the classroom through guided meditation and Aboriginal cultural perspectives. Through storytelling and nature-based visualisation, educators learn how to lead simple mindfulness activities that help children release worries, build resilience, and create calm classroom moments.
(6 Educator Learning Modules | 5 Guided Meditation Lessons for Classroom Use | Reflection Activities Included)
International award-winning Australian Aboriginal artist, educator, and teacher.
On behalf of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child sexual abuse, Donna spent several years interviewing Aboriginal abuse victims in indigenous communities. As a trauma counsellor and community liaison, Donna supported many clients through this difficult process.
Donna has been teaching the latest counselling techniques to clients such as Gestalt Therapy Australia’s upcoming year three students, University Queensland Psychology students, and many more, bringing a modern approach to counselling that reduces stress and anxiety within clients.
Donna is a Wailwan/Wiradjuri woman from outback NSW. Donna is from the stolen generation, and she wanted to create training resources to educate mainstream Australians (without blame, guilt, or anger) about Aboriginal people and to bring Indigenous wisdom to the counselling field.