ABSTRACT
This amalgamated text draws upon a number of sources including a memoir of Rosemary Wanganeen’s personal experiences of being an Australian Aboriginal child subject to the laws, policies and practices described as producing ‘the stolen generations’. She tells her story to show that intergenerational suppressed and unresolved loss and grief is passed across and down the generations. As an adult Rosemary began to develop a model for personal healing that came out of her own experiences as a child and later in her life, which she has used to assist others. As a Griefologist, her work is based on the insight that the suppressed, unresolved grief of past generations is a legacy that compounds and complicates many of the challenges that beset contemporary Aboriginal people. However, this work is not only for Aboriginal people. Rosemary is committed to helping people across cultures in addressing loss and grief and see this as the only way to reconfigure the ongoing impacts of social injustice, as well as the history of cycles of violence and invasions across Australia. She argues that to resolve future injustices, human beings must find their way back to culturally appropriate grieving processes.
