Rediscovering our Stories on this land and before… To Heal & Walk forward together. From her experience of raising a family and the challenges that brings, with disabilities and health challenges in the family, it set her on a path to seek out alternatives to healing and wellbeing. From an early age, Alison dedicated herself to learning healing ways to create a better, safer world for our children
and young ones to come. For over 20 years she has been deeply immersed in learning the healing traditions of her many mixed ancestral lineages including Celtic, pre-Celtic Irish, Nordic and Australian First Nations traditions. She gratefully acknowledges the many teachers, in particular Ger Lyons ( http://www.gerlyons.net/ ) and other elders who have inspired her and generously shared their wisdoms over the years. Alison has family connections to Wiradjuri country, where her grandmother was born but connects deeply to Dharug country (Hawkesbury River NSW) where she grew up. She is now living and working on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne since 2004. Since having the opportunity to travel to her ancestral country of Ireland she has strengthened her connections there. Alison has travelled back repeatedly doing healing work both for herself and others, offering people ways of reconnecting to their roots, and wisdom of the ancient traditions. Her traditional healing work is coupled with years of studies, research and professional experience working with families, groups, and communities. In her professional capacity she has been working with the Bouverie's First Nations Team in the Family Therapy Program for several years. She has been working with Children and Families in the Workin’ with the Mob Clinical Program for the last 10 years and in the Strengthening Connections Project in Victoria’s Women’s Prisons for the last 2 years. Since 2018, she has also been involved in The Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future project, an Aboriginal led University research project, which recognises ongoing oppression and intergenerational trauma (particularly forced removal of children) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and aims to actively contribute to recovery. Alison is a qualified lead facilitator for the We Al Li Training Programs,( https://www.wealli.com.au/ ) developed by Professor Judy Atkinson’s which focuses on a greater understanding of worldviews and builds awareness of effective ways of working with individuals, families, and communities around trauma.
