Season 4 Episode 8: “Heart Healing”: An interview with Mibbinbah’s Lisa and Jack Bulman

Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel

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In this episode, Ruth & David speak with Lisa & Jack Bulman of Mibbinbah Spirit Healing about their work in community to facilitate healing from intergenerational trauma, support healthy relationship connections and strengthen the wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander men and families. Mibbinbah uses a “whole of communities” approach which brings men & women together to heal in community. (From the Mibbinbah website: “The two words Mibbin meaning Men or Eagle and Bah meaning place come from the Eastern Yugambeh Language of South Eastern Queensland. Therefore placing the two words together gives us Eagle or Men’s place.”)

Jack & Lisa talk about the heart healing work they do within Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities to strengthen & support their families after generations of colonization which created family separation, violence & abuse.

In the interview the discussion touches on:

· Jack speaks about the origins of Mibbinbah Health in his need in University for a Safe Space for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander men to connect, support & heal together.

· Jack describes the negative police response to Aboriginal men coming together to heal in nature & how that helped him further develop his work with community

· How Lisa and Jack see addressing violence as separate from men's business & women's business

· How Partnering is critical when it comes to work with community

· The importance of deep listening to healing and how this differs from prescriptive approaches to addressing trauma and violence.

· How healing and combating family violence is important to the work of decolonization

· The importance of self-responsibility for adopting behaviors which heal harm to self & community.

· The pitfalls and limitations of how men’s behavior change is currently understood as Individual and reductionist rather than as familial & communal.

The interview also includes Jack and Lisa speaking about concrete behaviors professionals can adopt to culturally safely & appropriately support Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in healing from family violence & the intergenerational impacts of ongoing colonization.

To learn more about Mibbinbah

To listen to Jack and Lisa Bulman on the Mibbinbah podcast

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