WellMob

23/06/2025

🌈 Pride is Powerful. Culture is Healing. 🖤💛❤️
This , we celebrate the strength, resilience, and beauty of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+ communities — our Brotherboys, Sistergirls, and all our mob living with pride and courage.
For many, the path to living proudly is layered — walking in two worlds, navigating racism, homophobia, and transphobia, while also staying strong in culture, kinship, and identity.
✨ Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) is about connection — to self, to community, to Country, and to culture. When these connections are strong, our spirits are strong.
This month, we honour the voices and stories of our mob whose identities sit at the intersection of Blak and Q***r. Your existence is resistance. Your joy is medicine. Your pride is revolutionary.
Let’s stand together to amplify these voices, support safe spaces, and celebrate the power of being both/and — never either/or.


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03/06/2025

Today we commemorate Mabo Day, honouring the life and legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo, a proud Meriam man from Mer Island in the Torres Strait, whose strength and determination changed the course of Australian history.

On this day in 1992, the High Court delivered the landmark decision that recognised the traditional land rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, rejecting the false doctrine of terra nullius — the idea that this land belonged to no one before colonisation.

Eddie Mabo’s decade-long fight for justice affirmed what we’ve always known: that our people have lived, cared for, and belonged to this Country for tens of thousands of years.

Mabo Day is more than a legal milestone — it’s a day of cultural pride, remembrance, and strength. We pay tribute to all who continue the fight for land rights, self-determination, and truth.

🖤💛❤️💚💙

03/06/2025

The updated Best Practice Ideas page on WellMob — now with six clear topic areas.

Featured in the Family Support section:
"Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future" is a powerful e-learning course designed for practitioners and wellbeing workers.

This 5-hour course builds your capacity to have safe, informed conversations with First Nations parents about complex trauma.
It covers:
Historical and intergenerational trauma, The first 2,000 days of a child’s life, Trauma-aware perinatal care, Culturally safe ways to talk about trauma and healing.

https://bit.ly/3S8PyXD

31/05/2025

New Workplace Wellbeing Resources page on WellMob!

Looking to foster true inclusion for First Nations peoples in your workplace? The updated Best Practice Ideas page on WellMob — now sorted into six easy-to-navigate topics — has what you need.

Featured in the Workplace Wellbeing section:
"Leading Practice: 10 Truths to Centre Indigenous Australians’ Voices" – from Diversity Council Australia (DCA).

This resource highlights the real challenges faced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees, including:
Identity strain
Cultural load
Career development barriers
Workplace racism

These resources inform managers, supervisors and colleagues how to best support and strengthen the role of First Nations employees including providing a culturally safe workplace.

https://bit.ly/4kxlzVv

29/05/2025

We’ve refreshed the Best Practice section on the WellMob Training Resources page — making it easier to access culturally responsive tools for working with First Nations People.

Featured in the Psychology & Mental Health section:
Three practical manuals for psychology supervisors designed to support culturally safe and responsive supervision. The package includes:A general guide, A reflective journal, A manual of resources

These tools promote culturally respectful, strengths-based, and trauma-informed care in supervision settings.

With 77+ resources and growing, the Best Practice Ideas page in the Training Resources section makes it easier to access what you need to support mental health and wellbeing in culturally meaningful ways.

https://bit.ly/3H3ztjw

28/05/2025

The 1967 referendum was a major turning point in Australian history, with over 90% of voters supporting the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the census and giving the federal government power to make laws for us. It was a powerful moment of recognition that helped pave the way for important reforms like land rights and anti-discrimination laws. In contrast, the 2023 referendum to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament was rejected, despite strong public support for reconciliation and cultural pride.

The failure of the Voice referendum has had a deep emotional impact on many of our people. It reinforced feelings of exclusion, hurt, and disillusionment, adding to the trauma caused by a long history of marginalisation. Many felt unheard and unvalued in a country that we have called home for over 65,000 years.

But we are still here. Our resilience and strength as First Nations people have carried us through generations of struggle. We continue to push forward with determination—fighting for self-determined programs and culturally safe services and justice that support our social and emotional wellbeing. Our voices matter, and we will never stop working for justice, healing, and recognition.

27/05/2025

We’ve refreshed the Best Practice section on the WellMob Training Resources page — making it easier to access culturally responsive tools for working with First Nations People.

Featured Resource: Finding Your Way: a shared decision-making model for mob is a resource package for clinicians that supports a shared decision-making model grounded in Aboriginal perspectives.

Built on eight key elements of person-centered care, this toolkit includes:
Videos
Downloadable questionnaire
Posters
Social media content

Explore it now in the Culturally Safe Services section of the new Best Practice Ideas page in WellMobs’ Training Resources.

https://bit.ly/4jgMbJb

26/05/2025

Read our New Blog

Today marks the start of Reconciliation Week 2025, and this years theme is 'Bridging Now to Next', encouraging deep listening, truth-telling and allyship.

In celebration of this week the WellMob team share some training resources to build health workforce capacity to deliver culturally safe and trauma-informed care with the help of digital social and emotional wellbeing tools.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4dONspX

26/05/2025

National Reconciliation Week - Reconciliation Australia

As we honour National Reconciliation Week 2025 and its theme Bridging Now to Next, WellMob offers culturally grounded resources to support healing, connection, and understanding between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and non-Indigenous Australians.​

Explore these resources:

Healing: Learn about the impacts of colonisation and pathways to healing, including resources on trauma, grief, and the Stolen Generations.
Healing Resources https://bit.ly/3EjGhX3

Understanding and healing from trauma https://bit.ly/4koOUB4

Understanding the impact of colonisation https://bit.ly/3ScDnsM

Culture: Connect with resources celebrating Indigenous spirituality, art, language, and bush medicine.
Culture Resources https://bit.ly/45h6TFh

Cultural identity resources adults’ children and young people https://bit.ly/47TytXF

Social and Emotional Wellbeing: Understand the holistic SEWB model that supports mental, emotional, and cultural health.
Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Understanding social and emotional wellbeing https://bit.ly/3QbixKf

These tools help us reflect on the past, engage with the present, and build a more inclusive future.​

25/05/2025

Monday 26 May marks National Sorry Day across Australia.
The date acknowledges the anniversary of the tabling of Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families in the Australian Parliament in 1997.
Commemorating Sorry Day was one of many significant recommendations of this report. Yet only 6% of those recommendations from 1997 have been completed.
We cannot wait another generation for action.
Survivors deserve action now.
Learn more more on Healing page of the WellMob website
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24/05/2025

New Allyship resources page on the Best Practice Ideas section in WellMob’s Training Resources!

Looking to strengthen your role as an ally to First Nations peoples? The Allyship section on the Best Practice Ideas portal just got even better with a new resource by Angela Law.

In this interview, Dr Clinton Schultz breaks down what it really means to be an ally — highlighting the importance of self-education and pointing you to trusted Indigenous-led videos, books, reports, podcasts, and websites.

Any non-Indigenous person ready to deepen their understanding and take meaningful steps toward cultural responsiveness and respect.

Explore this topic with more resources now in the Allyship section of the new Best Practice Ideas page in WellMobs’ Training Resources.

https://bit.ly/4jcNJ6S

22/05/2025

New AOD Training Resource page on WellMob!

We’ve updated the Best Practice section on the WellMob Training Resources page — making it easier to find culturally responsive tools for working with Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) in First Nations communities.

Featured Resource: A must-watch one-hour webinar with Nicole Hewlett (Queensland University) unpacking the Australian FASD Indigenous Framework.

This training helps non-Indigenous health and wellbeing workers understand:
Yarning and family-centered assessment
Strengths-based wellbeing approaches
Advocacy and access to diagnosis and support
The lifespan impacts of FASD and the broader effects of colonisation

Whether you're new to the space or deep in the work, this resource offers essential guidance for culturally safe and effective practice.

Head to the AOD section on the WellMob new Best Practice Ideas page to explore it now in WellMobs’ Training Resources.

https://bit.ly/437nSZm