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position: Indigenous Research Academic

department: Gnibi College of Indigenous Peoples

Nicole is a proud descendant of the Kabi Kabi people of South-East Queensland, Australia. She and her sister, Kelleigh Ryan, are founders and directors of a non-government organisation, The Seedling Group, that has been delivering culturally safe trauma-informed practice training since 2014 to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and corporate and government organisations around Australia. Nicole is also an Indigenous research academic at Southern Cross University.

Articles contributed to by this person

Commentary 9 July 2021

Ticking the box of ‘cultural safety’ is not enough: why trauma-informed practice is critical to Indigenous healing

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