I am Jedison Wells and I have taken many paths to become the woman I am today. As such, I am very comfortable talking with others about cultural safety, identity, homelessness, child abandonment, sex work, redundancy, divorce, addiction, alcoholism, blended families and any other narratives that may have overshadowed their living.
As Chief Facilitator and Lead Counsellor at Hobajing Narrative Practice, my goal is to hold spaces that give voice for all stories. Formally, I have degrees in Adult Training and Development, Career Education, and Narrative Therapy and am currently undertaking PHD research at Charles Darwin University. As a Counsellor, I am registered level three with the ACA, and the Business is registered with Support Nation and IAHA.
More importantly than the letters after my name, my ability to support people in their wellbeing survival is informed by a childhood and young adulthood that had me thinking I was worthless and attracted the types of people who preyed on those thoughts. From a young age, I learned to restrain the self I portrayed to the world, never quite knowing if I was allowed to occupy the space.
I have been employed in construction, community services and the public service. In my younger days, I worked behind the counter in the Commonwealth Employment Service, and in administration in Austudy, Abstudy and SQWISI. Prior to Hobajing Narrative Practice, most of my exposure was in construction quality management and safety coaching, with side hustles in team building and problem solving.
With over 2000 hours of yarning, counselling and supervision practice, I integrate the healing knowledges of my Yuwaalaraay, Muruwari and Scottish ancestors into the Western approaches I have learnt. Though application is different, all Ancestories utilise the concepts of community and yarning, and view health as a combination of parts intertwined with each other. No one view can give a full picture and each view informs the complete picture.