Culture, Hope and Spirit Healing

1. Stayin' Strong Online Program

Small group (maximum of 10 participants) phone and online program to support people to be the best they can be.

Stayin' Strong program consists of:

• Individual 30-minute phone call with each participant is conducted prior to the workshop
• Three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop
• One-week post workshop Individual follow up 30-minute phone call with each participant
• Six-week post workshop follow up three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop

Stayin' Strong program covers:

• Resilience
• Anger
• Stepping into the Cultural light
• Identity and our sense of belonging
• Skills to maintain peace within uncertainty
• Meditation exercise

Cost $7,500 includes two facilitators from Mibbinbah Spirit Healing.

Please note each Stayin’ Strong program includes the six topics above. However, individual Stayin’ Strong programs can be tailored to organisational or community needs by replacing any of the topics listed above with any of the alternative Stayin’ Strong topics listed below. (Maximum of six topics per Stayin’ Strong online program.

• Deciding to change
• Taking responsibility
• Goal setting
• Relationships
• Identity
• Transformation
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Healing
• Empowerment

Workshop Facilitation

There will be two workshop facilitators (Male and Female) for each ‘Stayin Deadly’ workshop. This allows for men and women to come together in a balanced way to address community business.

There is potential to run workshops to have components that address men’s business and women’s business separately as per cultural protocols if required. Please seek separate pricing for individual Men’s Business and Women’s Business programs/workshops.

2. Mibbinbah Employee Assistance Program Online (Cultural EAP)

Mibbinbah is able to provide a Cultural Employee Assistance Program Online (phone/Skype/Zoom).

Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, and other organisations with Aboriginal employees can choose to use Mibbinbah as their Cultural & Spirit Healing EAP provider to ensure their employees receive culturally appropriate support and healing.

We provide cultural and spiritual support and healing as well as cultural mentoring. We have experience working with employees to assist them with difficulties that impact their ability to be the best they can be at work.

EAP sessions provided at $175 per hour.

Purchase of blocks of sessions for individual employees is also available.

3. Using a Mibbinbah/ First One Thousand Days Model – Our Fellas healing together

Small group (maximum of 10 Fellas) phone and online program to support people to be the best they can be.

Program consists of:

• Individual 30-minute phone call with each participant is conducted prior to the workshop
• Two x two-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshops. These are delivered a day apart e.g. Tuesday and Thursday within one week.
• One-week post workshop Individual follow up 30-minute phone call with each participant
• Six-week post workshop follow up three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop

Our program covers:

• Becoming a father and being a man
• Deciding to change
• Taking responsibility
• Relationships
• Anger
• Stepping into the Cultural light
• Identity and our sense of belonging

Cost $4,000 includes Men’s Business facilitator from Mibbinbah Spirit Healing.

Please note each program includes the seven topics above. However, individual programs can be tailored to the group’s needs by replacing any of the topics listed above with any of the alternative topics listed below. (Maximum of seven topics per online program).

• Transformation
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Healing
• Goal setting
• Empowerment Skills to maintain peace within uncertainty
• Meditation exercise

4. Mibbinbah – Women’s Program

Small group (maximum of 10 Mums) phone and online program to support people to be the best they can be.

Women’s program consists of:

• Individual 30-minute phone call with each participant is conducted prior to the workshop
• Two x two-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshops. These are delivered a day apart e.g. Tuesday and Thursday within one week.
• One-week post workshop Individual follow up 30-minute phone call with each participant
• Six-week post workshop follow up three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop

Women’s program covers:

• Becoming a Mum and standing in your feminine power
• Identity and our sense of belonging
• Deciding to change
• Taking responsibility
• Relationships
• Anger
• Stepping into the Cultural light

Cost $4,000 includes Women’s Business facilitator from Mibbinbah Spirit Healing.

Please note each Mibbinbah program includes the seven topics above. However, individual programs can be tailored to the group’s needs by replacing any of the topics listed above with any of the alternative topics listed below. (Maximum of seven topics per online program).

• Goal setting
• Transformation
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Healing
• Empowerment Skills to maintain peace within uncertainty
• Meditation exercise

5. Online Community ‘Stayin Deadly’ Follow Up workshops

Online Stayin Deadly community follow up workshops are available for people and communities who have already completed an initial Mibbinbah Be the Best you can Be workshop.

The online follow up ‘Stayin Deadly’ program consists of:

Small group (maximum of 10 participants) phone and online program to support people to be the best they can be.

‘Stayin Deadly’ program consists of:

• Individual 30-minute phone call with each participant is conducted prior to the workshop
• Three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop
• One-week post workshop Individual follow up 30-minute phone call with each participant
• Six-week post workshop follow up three-hour group online (skype/zoom) workshop

Mibbinbah will ‘deliver follow up small group program. Each program will be experiential and participatory and involve men and women who have been active in their communities after completing the Be The Best You Can Be workshop.

Mibbinbah’s ‘Stayin Deadly’ program is an innovative program that provides support to people who are embracing change and working hard to change their relationships and improving community wellbeing.

Themes interwoven throughout the program include:

• Challenges of being a role model for change
• Stepping in – how is it working?
• Speaking up – what happens?
• Difficult conversations – how is the community responding?
• Cultural mentoring and support

Cost $7,500 includes two facilitators from Mibbinbah Spirit Healing.

Workshop Facilitation

There will be two workshop facilitators (Male and Female) for each ‘Stayin Deadly’ workshop. This allows for men and women to come together in a balanced way to address community business.

There is potential to run workshops to have components that address men’s business and women’s business separately as per cultural protocols if required. Please seek separate pricing for individual Men’s Business and Women’s Business programs/workshops.

Women and Men Working Together

At Mibbinbah we respect and acknowledge Men’s and Women’s business and will always work with local mobs to establish trust and respect firstly. We will always ask if it is possible for us to work with both males and females, this is about working together for the future of our children and grandchildren. It is about working together to find solutions for critical concerns and issues in their communities and then finding solutions to address these concerns and issues with available resources.

One thing that has continually risen from working with our lads across the breadth of Australia has been that our men can’t do it on their own and we need the support of our women, children and whole of community. We believe that to build strong communities – we need to have strong relationships. This includes our own relationship with culture and country, our own identity and that of our communities.

We offer programs for men, women and both men and women together as we feel that we have a lot to learn from each other as far as our shared and separate histories are and what our hopes are for the future.

About Mibbinbah

Mibbinbah is an Indigenous Health Promotion Charity

We celebrate the great diversity of culture and language represented by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Since 2007, Mibbinbah has coordinated a national program of events for men, women and children from our communities, including an annual camp.

Together with communities we use locally defined 'proper way' to establish culturally safe spaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, women and children to explore and enrich our identity, well-being and skills.

Together we create safe spaces for spirit healing, empowerment, celebration and education & training

Our Values

The three primary values that guide us are Culture, Respect and Gratitude.

Taking our rightful place

Mibbinbah is committed to supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as we take our rightful place in society.

We celebrate our ability to work together in the present to achieve common goals that bring good to our communities. We remember the past with both its triumphs and its traumas, and we recognize the wide diversity of back grounds that men and women come from. We also share a vision of the future where strong leadership provides hope and an elimination of lateral violence. We call this “Mibbinbah Proper Way”.

Culturally Safe Spaces

There is a real sense among workers and researchers that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culturally safe spaces are effective in connecting each other and communities with one another.

Together with community, Mibbinbah creates safe spaces to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to meet and discuss issues of concern to them.

Within a culturally safe environment and by identifying and addressing common life factors affecting Indigenous people such as racism, trans-generational trauma, loss of culture, identity and land, Mibbinbah seeks to take steps to support participants with their journey.

Involving the facilitation of local groups within the local community, workshops provide opportunities for spirit healing, empowerment, celebration and education & training. This approach builds on earlier work by such people as Dr Mick Adams, Dr Mark Wenitong and Frank Spry. The importance of support is acknowledged by Frank Spry below:

The training and support for frontline workers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander settings is frequently inadequate, and staff are at real risk of suicide themselves, with high levels of burnout, blame and vicarious trauma.

They require critical incident debriefing regularly, but as a rule, rarely receive it, despite them being consistently at the coal face. Even when they have finished their daily work, they can be called upon at any time, night or day, due to the high rates of attempted suicides in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The risk for these frontline workers and their families is manifold, as they often live in a community “at risk” and contagion is always a factor. As frontline workers, they may also be exposed to “sorry business”, grief and loss in the most existential way, yet there is no systematic process for post-vention response and self-care guidelines to safeguard them from burnout and vicarious suicide risk.

What People Say...

"Keep doing the beautiful work you are doing, there is something so special about what you do, I don’t normally open up and tell my story, but you fellas created a space to enable me to feel safe and welcomed. I can’t wait for the Train the Trainer workshops. I love what you fellas do."

Tif, 2019 Toowoomba.

"You work so well together, and I have never seen facilitators so calm and relaxed, it made the space for us as participants a great place to be and in the end, we didn’t want it to finish. I was also amazed at the way Jack and Lisa were able to read the room and ask the most appropriate questions."

Male participant. 2019 Toowoomba

"Had and awesome 2- day workshop on Healing and social and emotional wellbeing, great facilitators, I would recommend these presenters and workshops to everyone. Thank you to our deadly facilitators Jack & Lisa Bulman."

Milly 2019 Goondiwindi

About Us

Jack and Lisa Bulman are proud Aboriginal people who are passionate about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people’s social and emotional wellbeing, working together in their highest and best.

Jack Bulman is a Muthi Muthi man from South Western NSW and Lisa Bulman is a Gundijtmara woman from Warrnambool Victoria. Both have very strong ties back to country. They have five children between them plus a friendly dog Kaya, a new puppy Shadow and their cat Rosie.

For further information please contact us.