Online survey - Healing Circles Consultation

Online survey for Healing Circle consultation

This survey is for participants who choose not to participate in virtual or online consultations but still want to have their voices heard around the concept of healing circles. This is open to all First Nations/Aboriginal people in NSW.
1.Are you an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person?
2.Do you have lived experience of the coronial inquest process? (Including both personally and professionally)
3.If so, when you reflect on your experience in an inquest, what memory is most significant?
4.How could an experience in that setting be more therapeutic or proper from a Cultural perspective?
5.Did you feel like you had a voice?
6.What kind of things did you want to say?
7.Who did you want to say them to?
8.If you could have the time again, what would that look like?
9.Could a space like a ‘healing circle’ have been appropriate or valuable (Culturally, Therapeutically or Systemically).
10.Would it be culturally appropriate to embed healing circles into the coronial inquest process?
11.How would it look for you? Who would have been there?
12.Where would they take place? Are they at the Court? Are they on Country/Community? Who is there outside of family members? and at what level are the represented if from the Public Sector.
13.If they were appropriate to pilot, who should facilitate healing circles? Are there any considerations professionally or Culturally around who would be most appropriate?
14.What about design? Would you have any considerations around structural design, who speaks, process of, outcomes at the end to be considered.
15.Are there any considerations around the use of ‘healing’ when considering this circle pilot? Is that the appropriate language? Could we consider using Language or Lingo and if so are there considerations or words, or language groups we should be conscious of?
16.If a Healing Circle existed, When and what stage would you like to be involved should the healing circle be included?