7 - 10  July  KANYINI GATHERING

Isira will be sitting with elders of Bandjalung, Gumbaynggir and teachers from Uluru in the Northern Rivers for a Kanyini gathering. Kanyini is an ancient lore of love and responsibility and is a process that enables individuals to establish harmony and unity within themselves and with life. This process is very significant to the vision of attaining resolution and connectedness between ‘black’ and ‘white’ Australia and between each of us as individuals with the collective of life on earth.

Kanyini has recently been documented on film and just released at the Sydney Film festival. It is profoundly impacting. See www.kanyini.com for more information about the film.

Isira is closely related to the elder of Uluru, Uncle Bob, who is the messenger of Kanyini. Through this relation further projects are being developed to widen humanitarian efforts to support indigenous communities for healing and development. Isira is deeply committed in assisting the welfare of these developments.

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12 - 22 July IN COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

Isira will be in council with the Bardi Jawi nation (people of the Dampier Peninsular, North of Broome) facilitating / participating in workshops of strategy planning and implementation for sustainable community living on Native Title land.

The intent is to integrate current knowledge with indigenous wisdom to develop a functional community that is sustainable spiritually and materially for the people and the conservation of the land with its native flora and fauna. The vision is to create an environmental living centre run by the native land owners and operating as a facility for cultural encounters of education and living.

This is a pilot project and is currently the subject of a thesis and under developmental support with the University of WA.

“I hope to deepen respectful relations with the elders to gain and support further skills and documentation to assist our indigenous and white communities find a common ground and understanding that may assist healing and progress. It is my intent to continue facilitating in these gatherings in order to raise greater awareness for the betterment of all people. I also seek to pass on the indigenous wisdom that has the power to reconnect us with earth, sacred balance and sustainable living.

I believe projects such as these are hugely relevant to us all. The wisdom, skills and relations that we gain are so essential to our ability to respond to social and environmental challenges that we are (and will continue to be) faced with. If we are to support a world for our children (and their children) that is alive and healthy, then we must implement these strategies now.”