Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
29-5-2024 12:30 PM
End Date
29-5-2024 1:30 PM
Description
Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that simultaneously engages sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote wellbeing outcomes. EAL is very different to office-based social and emotional wellbeing interventions and seems particularly suited to support the wellbeing of Aboriginal young people due to their flexibility, their non-confrontational non-verbal methods for feedback, and importantly, the historical ties to horses through working and living on country.
The Yawardani Jan-ga (Horses doing Healing) EAL intervention responds to the urgent needs of Aboriginal young people across the Kimberley. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the EAL intervention on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal young people.
Recommended Citation
Coffin, Juli, "Yawardani Jan-ga – How horses are writing a new story with Aboriginal young people in the Kimberley" (2024). Nulungu Research Week. 3.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_researchweek/2024/schedule/3
Yawardani Jan-ga – How horses are writing a new story with Aboriginal young people in the Kimberley
Zoom link: https://notredame-au.zoom.us/j/88165812351
Passcode: 492499
Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that simultaneously engages sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote wellbeing outcomes. EAL is very different to office-based social and emotional wellbeing interventions and seems particularly suited to support the wellbeing of Aboriginal young people due to their flexibility, their non-confrontational non-verbal methods for feedback, and importantly, the historical ties to horses through working and living on country.
The Yawardani Jan-ga (Horses doing Healing) EAL intervention responds to the urgent needs of Aboriginal young people across the Kimberley. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the EAL intervention on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal young people.
Comments
Professor Juli Coffin is a proud Aboriginal woman, with traditional ties to her grandparents Nyangumarta country in the Pilbara region. She is recognised by the community and through many external awards as an exceptional and prominent Aboriginal researcher. Professor Coffin currently resides and lives in Broome and works throughout the Kimberley region and has also established this EAL body of research and work in several communities throughout the Kimberley that have the highest levels of youth difficulties faced by Aboriginal young people in the world.
Session Facilitator: Nulungu Director, Assoc Prof Mel Marshall