The influence of yarning circles: A cultural safety professional development program for midwives

Embodied Indigenous knowledges protecting and privileging Indigenous peoples' ways of knowing, being and doing in undergraduate nursing education

“…The embedding of Indigenous health within undergraduate nursing curricula is a recent phenomenon, which means that nurse academics who were trained before the 1990s or who graduated before the year 2000 are less likely to have been taught about Indigenous health from a critical nursing perspective, thus feel less confident in the teaching of Indigenous health (Turale and Miller, 2006). Fleming et al (2020) used yarning circles as an enabler to facilitate professional development of non-Indigenous midwifery academics, specifically regarding the application of cultural safety to the Indigenous health and wellbeing context. They found that individual and collective sense of belonging was nurtured through yarning, which made their professional development easier (Fleming et al, 2020).…”

“…Fleming et al . (2020) used yarning circles as an enabler to facilitate professional development of non-Indigenous midwifery academics, specifically regarding the application of cultural safety to the Indigenous health and wellbeing context. They found that individual and collective sense of belonging was nurtured through yarning, which made their professional development easier (Fleming et al ., 2020).…”

“…(2020) used yarning circles as an enabler to facilitate professional development of non-Indigenous midwifery academics, specifically regarding the application of cultural safety to the Indigenous health and wellbeing context. They found that individual and collective sense of belonging was nurtured through yarning, which made their professional development easier (Fleming et al ., 2020). The authors identified that yarning helped their participants, ‘see the richness of diversity and cultural within their academic and practice environment’ (Fleming et al ., 2020, p. 182).…”

“…They found that individual and collective sense of belonging was nurtured through yarning, which made their professional development easier (Fleming et al ., 2020). The authors identified that yarning helped their participants, ‘see the richness of diversity and cultural within their academic and practice environment’ (Fleming et al ., 2020, p. 182). This may reflect the individual's limitations in seeing the diversity, or a reflection of the deficits within our socialising norms that hid diversity and valued ‘fitting in’.…”

‘It wasn't just the academic stuff, it was life stuff’: the significance of peers in strengthening the Indigenous health researcher workforce

“…However, the health and higher education landscape is subject to prevailing outcomes of colonisation (Sherwood, 2013). A paradigm shift is underway that inverts the deficit framework (Herbert, 2012; Vass, 2013), led by Indigenous peoples worldwide and takes place at the intersections of: redefining research approaches and creating a strong body of knowledge in Indigenous methodologies and pedagogies (Smith, 2012; Diamond and Anderson, 2019); organisational structures, processes and partnerships prioritising community shaping of research agendas, implementations and uses (Bond et al ., 2016); establishing and upholding cultural awareness, competencies, safety and responsiveness (Fleming et al ., 2019; Opie et al ., 2019; Te et al ., 2019); solidifying consensus on data sovereignty (Kukutai and Taylor, 2016); greater control of decisions on research funding (Street et al ., 2007); increasing social media influence (Sweet, 2013); greater whole-of-government and whole-of-university policy orientations to Indigenous higher education and workforce development (Australia and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Advisory Council, 2015); stronger positioning of Indigenous peoples in university governance (Page et al ., 2017) and growing recognition of the institutional obligations for comprehensive incorporation of Indigenous rights, standards and knowledges (Jones et al ., 2019). Transformative change is growing across the diversity of disciplines underlying health research.…”