Courses

I meant to try to blog more this year but life takes me over. My most recent excuse is that I’ve been in Adelaide for the last couple of weeks doing a course - “Working with Hardship and Trauma”. Sounds particularly joyful, doesn’t it. Well, it was great. There are a dozen of us from all over the world doing the course. It continues throughout the year as we have to do a project and all this reading and wrtiting and keeping in e-contact. Then we all meet up again in Africa in September for the next teaching block.  I’ve never been to Africa so am pretty excited about that.  Any way, I feel I have a few more clues about how to approach the work I do so I’m feeling re engergised which is good. I also got to hang in Adealide when the Fringe festival was on and that was fun - got to go to the Speigel tent again and see a pretty funny and raunchy cabaret. While I was there, half of the inner city of Adealide was turned into a car race course for some event called the Clipsal which causes all manner of inconvenience for the locals. I flew home yesterday in time for the inaugural “bush medicine tour” of our property by our aboriginal neighbour, John. Martin and his 2 friends staying here have spent the last 5 weeks helping John create a track, put signs labelling trees and plants, and build a humpy, and now the course is set to go. They invited friends to come for the trial tour and had a bbq afterwards to celebrate.  John was really happy and said that guiding the tour made him feel strong. How good is that!

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