Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng PhD
Hello Thank you for visiting my page. I'm Tjanara, a First Nations, Wakka Wakka Wulli Wuilli Traditional Custodian off the Djawan Djambe Nation of Central Queensland, Australia. I completed my PhD at the Australian National University Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research on Aboriginal Eldership - Sacred Leadership in 2018. I teach Indigenous Education studies in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the Australian Catholic University campus in Canberra. I am a Co-Founder of the Foundation for Indigenous Recovery & Development, Aust. (FIRDA) and currently National Convenor and Managing Director of OneINMA Global a 100% owned and operated First Nations business in Australia working in the area of transformational leadership ( sacred leadership) and First Nations knowledge systems.
Supervisors: Kevin Gilbert (deceased) Wiradjuri Political Activist, Writer, Author, Poet, Playwright, Artist, Marc Fourcade (deceased) CEO/Founder Spring Global Optimom Alpha Consulting Paris France, Assoc.Prof. Dr Janet Hunt Deputy Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) Australian National University, Kumuntjay Randall (deceased) Traditional Owner Uluru Kata Tjuta NT Australia, Brian Bacon CEO of the Oxford Leadership Academy Oxford UK, KummunaraTjikatu AM (deceased) Pitjanjatjara Traditional Owner Uluru Kata Tjuta NT Australia, Sr Jayanti Head of the Brahma Kumaris London and Europe, UK, Dadi Janki, Head of the Janki Foundation London UK, Dorethea Randall CoDesigner Umpiyara homeland Community Cultural Economic Development Program, Dr Julie Lahn,Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, CAEPR Australian National University, Maureen Williams ( my mother - Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Elder), Dr Paul Collis PhD, B.A Communications B.Creative Writing (Hons.), Dr Braveheart South Dakota Sioux nation Pine Ridge reservation, Mary Graham Kombomerri Elder, and Charlie Perkins (deceased)Freedom Rider, Secretary of the Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs, Aust.
Phone: 0458239480
Address: C/- National Museum of Australia lawson Cct ACTON ACT 2601
www.anu.edu.au/caepr/tjanaragorenggoreng and www.tjanaragg.com
Supervisors: Kevin Gilbert (deceased) Wiradjuri Political Activist, Writer, Author, Poet, Playwright, Artist, Marc Fourcade (deceased) CEO/Founder Spring Global Optimom Alpha Consulting Paris France, Assoc.Prof. Dr Janet Hunt Deputy Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) Australian National University, Kumuntjay Randall (deceased) Traditional Owner Uluru Kata Tjuta NT Australia, Brian Bacon CEO of the Oxford Leadership Academy Oxford UK, KummunaraTjikatu AM (deceased) Pitjanjatjara Traditional Owner Uluru Kata Tjuta NT Australia, Sr Jayanti Head of the Brahma Kumaris London and Europe, UK, Dadi Janki, Head of the Janki Foundation London UK, Dorethea Randall CoDesigner Umpiyara homeland Community Cultural Economic Development Program, Dr Julie Lahn,Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, CAEPR Australian National University, Maureen Williams ( my mother - Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Elder), Dr Paul Collis PhD, B.A Communications B.Creative Writing (Hons.), Dr Braveheart South Dakota Sioux nation Pine Ridge reservation, Mary Graham Kombomerri Elder, and Charlie Perkins (deceased)Freedom Rider, Secretary of the Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs, Aust.
Phone: 0458239480
Address: C/- National Museum of Australia lawson Cct ACTON ACT 2601
www.anu.edu.au/caepr/tjanaragorenggoreng and www.tjanaragg.com
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THE ROAD TO ELDERSHIP: SACRED AND VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND ITS TRANFORMATIVE IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS
ABSTRACT
Aboriginal leaders, in particular Elders have led the political and social/civil rights movements since invasion, and in particular since the advent of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and its rights agenda since the 1970's. They have been at the forefront of transformation in Aboriginal policy and the setting of the agenda, firstly because of their leadership in their communities and then as appointed members of advisory groups and councils established by Federal and State Australian governments since then. Elders have always been the leaders and there is an established developmental engagement and education cycle in cultural, intellectual, mental, emotional and spiritual terms which mirrors the physical development of people in community. This research examined western and Indigenous leadership theorists and authors and western development psychology in order to ascertain if Australia's Indigenous knowledge system enables the development of sacred and visionary Elders who can lead community transformation. The research found that Indigenous communities have a form of Eldership -leadership development that encouraged healthy functional children to become adults who were committed to living in their Law, following their cultural traditions and education and passing that onto others so that they could sustain their knowledge systems for generations. Healing from generational trauma by engaging in cultural practice, law and ceremony, service to community and teaching others, enabled the storytellers in this research to heal arrested development and move into higher levels of thinking to sacred leadership. The research found that it produced Elders of visionary capability who inspired and motivated those around them to undertake projects in community transformation relating to business and enterprise development and renewal in their community. This talk will reflect on this research and make policy recommendations relating to how Aboriginal Eldership can support transformation as part of the Indigenous affairs policy agenda.
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Tjanara Goreng Goreng is an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Indigenous Studies) at the University of Canberra and a PhD Scholar at CAEPR. Tjanara began her career in the Commonwealth Public Service and has worked in senior policy advisor positions at the Department of Prime minister and Cabinet, Foreign and Trade, Social Security, Finance, Communication and the Arts and Aboriginal Affairs. Tjanara worked in the Executive of the National Aboriginal Conference, the Aboriginal Development Commission and ATSIC. She has always worked in senior Director positions at NSW Attorney Generals and the Queensland Department of Families as the State Indigenous Social Planner. Tjanara has been the Director of two Aboriginal Education Units at the University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University as well as working in community based development and trauma recovery programs in remote communities. Tjanara has postgraduate qualifications in Business Administration, Community Development and Social Work. Her PhD thesis is Tjukurpa Pulka - the Road to Eldership How Sacred and Visionary Elders are created and how they lead Community Transformation
Healing the Trauma of Acculturation by Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng PhD
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Talks by Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng PhD
UPdated 08/02/2021
THE ROAD TO ELDERSHIP: SACRED AND VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND ITS TRANFORMATIVE IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS
ABSTRACT
Aboriginal leaders, in particular Elders have led the political and social/civil rights movements since invasion, and in particular since the advent of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and its rights agenda since the 1970's. They have been at the forefront of transformation in Aboriginal policy and the setting of the agenda, firstly because of their leadership in their communities and then as appointed members of advisory groups and councils established by Federal and State Australian governments since then. Elders have always been the leaders and there is an established developmental engagement and education cycle in cultural, intellectual, mental, emotional and spiritual terms which mirrors the physical development of people in community. This research examined western and Indigenous leadership theorists and authors and western development psychology in order to ascertain if Australia's Indigenous knowledge system enables the development of sacred and visionary Elders who can lead community transformation. The research found that Indigenous communities have a form of Eldership -leadership development that encouraged healthy functional children to become adults who were committed to living in their Law, following their cultural traditions and education and passing that onto others so that they could sustain their knowledge systems for generations. Healing from generational trauma by engaging in cultural practice, law and ceremony, service to community and teaching others, enabled the storytellers in this research to heal arrested development and move into higher levels of thinking to sacred leadership. The research found that it produced Elders of visionary capability who inspired and motivated those around them to undertake projects in community transformation relating to business and enterprise development and renewal in their community. This talk will reflect on this research and make policy recommendations relating to how Aboriginal Eldership can support transformation as part of the Indigenous affairs policy agenda.
BIO
Tjanara Goreng Goreng is an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Indigenous Studies) at the University of Canberra and a PhD Scholar at CAEPR. Tjanara began her career in the Commonwealth Public Service and has worked in senior policy advisor positions at the Department of Prime minister and Cabinet, Foreign and Trade, Social Security, Finance, Communication and the Arts and Aboriginal Affairs. Tjanara worked in the Executive of the National Aboriginal Conference, the Aboriginal Development Commission and ATSIC. She has always worked in senior Director positions at NSW Attorney Generals and the Queensland Department of Families as the State Indigenous Social Planner. Tjanara has been the Director of two Aboriginal Education Units at the University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University as well as working in community based development and trauma recovery programs in remote communities. Tjanara has postgraduate qualifications in Business Administration, Community Development and Social Work. Her PhD thesis is Tjukurpa Pulka - the Road to Eldership How Sacred and Visionary Elders are created and how they lead Community Transformation