Transcript VISIONS FOR KIJA COUNTRY

VISIONS FOR KIJA-JARU
COUNTRY
Halls Creek – East Kimberley – Western Australia
Deidre Ikin Community Drug Service Worker
June 2002
What it’s about….
 Ways
A
of working
story about this work
 Some
ways to use it yourself
What the boss said….
 Fly
in to Halls Creek for two or
three days a month
 Work
with local workers who
see people with drug and
alcohol problems
What I thought…
I NEED A PLAN
PLAN FOR WORKING
 COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
 APPRECIATIVE
INQUIRY 4 D’s
4Ds
Discover
Destiny
“Best In Our
Past”
“How to empower,
learn, and adjust?”
Dream
“What might be”
Design
“What should
be—
be—the ideal?”
Cooperrider, D.L. & Srivastva, S., (1987) and Banaga
Jr., G. (1998)
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DISCOVERY
Find something really good……
….like Caroline Pool at the end of
dry season
DREAM
DREAM WHAT MIGHT BE
Looking for a positive future
DESIGN
 Decide
 Find
do it
what should be
ways to work together to
Work together to bring a vision
DELIVERY OR DESTINY
Create it by doing it
Empower, learn, adjust
LANGUAGE CREATES
OUR REALITY
Red Hill school kids telling parts of
the body in language
Drink safe messages for the pub
If you are drinking grog
Drink water
Don’t drive
Eat tucker
Look after the kids
KIJA
Tama ngurlukngarri nerne kurlum nguwan
juwurra nimpin ngurrkajim
Mayim jangperne menkawuk
nimpirrimnhapurru jaam
Kurntukam menkawuy perneta
Kija translation by Kimberley Language Resource Centre
Halls Creek/ KCDST 2002
JARU
Nyangan daraj ngananggu ngawa
Ngaba nyarniny ngananda
Wagurran mudigangan dribim mananggu
Mangarri ngarnanda yambi gin.gig
Yambambawu warra ganganda yalu
Jaru translation by Kimberley Language Resource Centre
Halls Creek/KCDST 2002
KRIOL
Ib yumob garra dringgimbat grog
yu garra dringgim bigmob woda
don jinggabat bla dreibim modiga
yu garra eidim bigismob daga
en yu garra kipim ola kid seib
Kriol translation by Kimberley Language Resource Centre
Halls Creek/ KCDST 2002
It is important to value differences
A creative approach to change
Takes us away from what is wrong to
what we might be able to do
Finds what we do well rather than
what we need to fix
The mob….
Halls Creek District High School – School Drug Education Project Team
Halls Creek Shire
Halls Creek Police
Kimberley TAFE – Halls Creek
Kimberley Language and Resource Centre
Jungarni–Jutiya Alcohol Education Centre
Halls Creek Hospital
Halls Creek Supermarket
Halls Creek Youth Service
Kimberley Community Drug Service Team
More of the mob…
Yura Yungi Aboriginal Medical Service
North West Mental Health Service
Department of Justice – Halls Creek
Department of Indigenous Affairs – Halls Creek
Warlawurra Catholic School
Halls Creek Multi-purpose Centre
Kimberley Public Health Unit
Halls Creek Community Health Service
and many other community members and workers
Goodbye Halls Creek
Thank you to the people of Halls Creek for
welcoming me to your country.
Tiny McCale
My Country