The Rural Outback and Remote Paramedic Conference 2022

The Rural Outback and Remote Paramedic Conference is a two-day event, designed specifically for paramedics and allied health professionals working in rural, outback and remote locations.

Conference theme: "Breaking down barriers"

ROAR 2022 Keynote Presenter

Rosemary guides us through her journey and discovery of the principles of griefology as an intuitive researcher. She describes her understanding aboriginal ancestorial grief and major losses which has ongoing effects to the contemporary aboriginal descendent. She provides an overview of the system that she has developed which is an holistic approach to acknowledging grief and healing in order reclaim aboriginal prosperity and to lessen the impacts of intergenerational aboriginal disadvantage.

Biography: Rosemary Wanganeen

Rosemary is an awarding winning proud South Australian Aboriginal woman with ancestral links to Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains and Wirungu from the West Coast of SA. 29-yrs ago Rosemary became the sole operator and owner of the Sacred Site Within Healing and in going from strength to strength, in 2021 she founded the Healing Centre for Griefology. Between 1987-1992 she became what she refers to, an intuitive researcher whereby her research question was to investigate ‘not what happed when 1788 arrive’ but ‘why did it happened and so violently’ without shaming or blaming. In so doing, she developed the Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief framework which she soon realized was a missing link to dismantling Aboriginal disadvantage to re-build Aboriginal prosperity which afforded her the role as a Griefologist. Her definition of Griefology is it’s the study of the human relationship between Aboriginal ancestral major losses and their suppressed unresolved grief that has compounded and complicated their contemporary Aboriginal descendants’ losses and suppressed unresolved grief, guaranteeing Aboriginal disadvantage, inter-generationally! However, understanding this relationship, Griefology is a holistic system that will reclaim grieving processes that will restore prosperity which is the right of all human beings. As a result of her peer reviewed and published Seven Phases framework, and her industry experience of 29-years she was accepted into the Master of Philosophy at University of Adelaide

Conference moderator: Alecka Miles, Course Coordinator, Paramedicine & Master of Paramedic Practitioner, Edith Cowan University