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What we do

Ngangkari – Traditional Healers

Ngangkari are the traditional healers of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) lands in the remote western desert of Central Australia. Ngangkari have looked after people’s physical and emotional health for thousands of years. The NPY Women’s Council Ngangkari Program supports ngangkari to continue their work in communities, clinics and hospitals.

Uti Kulintjaku

Uti Kulintjaku is an award-winning initiative of the Ngangkari Program that supports mental health understanding. Led by ngangkari and senior Anangu, Uti Kulintjaku encourages deeper conversations about mental health and healing for Anangu and people working in Aboriginal health and related services. Uti kulintjaku means to listen, think and understand clearly. ‘Uti Kulintjaku is a new way, using the old way, and bringing it into the new world.’ (Rene Kulitja)
*Anangu are people of the NPY region

Books

ngangkari healers book
Traditional Healers of Central Australia
aboriginal health resource
Tjulpu and Walpa
aboriginal indigenous colouring book gift
Colouring Towards Clear Thinking
Tjanima Tjukurpa

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News & Stories

ABC Awaye! Traditional Healing in Virtual Reality ABC Awaye! Meditating in language At the edge of comprehension, Kim Mahood, The Monthly Australia’s other ‘flying doctors’
By Georgina Kenyon

Resources

aboriginal mental health resource
Emotional Literacy Magnets
pitjantjatjara language Aboriginal health resource
Words for Feelings Conversation Cards
aboriginal feelings language
Words for Feelings Map
Aboriginal health resource child development
Iti Nguru Pulkaringkunytja poster

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