what’s this yarning all about
when we yarn, we are equal. I have skills, you have skills and together we are giving each other and our knowledges time to be heard. In yarning, no one view can give a full picture and each view informs the complete picture so there’s no wrong answer, just questions about where our knowledges can take us
my goal at Hobajing Practice is to hold spaces that give voice for all stories. Think of it like taking a friend out to your favourite creek or trail. Somewhere you’ve been a hundred maybe even a thousand times, a place where you can name every branch, every crevice, every stone and of course you know the way so well that you never sink into a hole or fall over a log. You know the history of the land and how the weather, the people and the fauna have impacted the landscape for good and for bad. Your friend though notices something different, something you don’t even see at first and maybe insist is not even there, but they keep pointing it out and it starts to shine. Something you can’t believe you have either missed for so long or thought had no importance at all.
narrative yarns are just like that friend bringing other parts of the landscape to the front to learn how it was shaped, who was involved and how it can be brought right up close or pushed away. In combination with a bit of humour, some poking and a lot of listening, our skills expand the view so the influences that are keeping pain, worry or suffering alive for you, can be fully seen.
services
counselling
from daily frustrations through to truth and repair, i offer individual counselling on a variety of platforms including live and offline counselling
supervision
open safe spaces are provided where no details are given to an employer (even if they’re paying), so people can explore their professional and cultural understandings of who and how they are in the workplace, either live or over Zoom or Teams
training
whether it’s your material or mine, i deliver by leaning in on collaboration and vulnerability, from small groups of up to eight and larger groups up to 30, in live face to face environments
landscape of services
i am an accredited level 4 counsellor and member of the college of supervisors with the Australian Counselling Association, and a member of Indigenous Allied Health Australia and the business is registered with or supply nation. For more info on me and my approaches, click here
training, supervision and counselling can also be undertaken in both Queensland and New South Wales Construction Sites. I have 10 years exposure to construction in Quality Administration and Auditing, and hold Construction Cards for both states and full PPE