Recasting Jung Through an Indigenist Approach to Deepen Shared Knowledges of Well-being and Healing on Australian Soils: Protocol for a Qualitative Landscape Research Study

• Main Authors: S Zaccone, G Jamieson, CV Murray, Mark Lock, D Doyle
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified; Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified; Australia; First Nation; Indigenist approach; Indigenous; Jungian psychology; co-design; community need; healing; knowledge sharing; landscape research; marginalized; participatory action research; participatory research; qualitative methodology; qualitative research; relational study; ritual; shared knowledge; user need; well-being; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:22124396.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Recasting_Jung_Through_an_Indigenist_Approach_to_Deepen_Shared_Knowledges_of_Well-being_and_Healing_on_Australian_Soils_Protocol_for_a_Qualitative_Landscape_Research_Study/22124396

Background: The colonization of Australia is responsible for complex layers of trauma for the First Nations peoples of the continent. First Nations Australians’ well-being is irrevocably tied to the well-being of the land. The application of a landscape-based approach to collaborative research shows promise in enabling genuine relationships that yield rich and informative data. However, there is a lack of practical evidence in the field of landscape research—research tied to First Nations Australians’ worldviews of landscape. Objective: This study aims to deepen shared knowledges of well-being and healing on Australian soils. We aim to examine ritual co-design as a novel method for deepening these shared knowledges. Methods: This research comprises a qualitative and participatory action research design operationalized through an Indigenist approach. It is a 2-phase project that is co-designed with First Nations Australians. Phase 1 of this project is a relational study that endeavors to deepen the theory underpinning the project, alongside the development of meaningful and reciprocal community connections. Phase 2 is a series of 3 participatory action research cycles to co-design a new communal ritual. This process seeks to privilege First Nations Australians’ voices and ways of knowing, which are themselves communal, ritual, and symbolic. The framework developed by psychiatrist Carl Jung informs the psychological nature of the enquiry. An Indigenist approach to landscape research recasts the Jungian frame to enable a culturally safe, context-specific, and landscape-based method of qualitative research. Results: The research is in the preliminary stages of participant recruitment. It is expected that data collection will commence in late 2022. Conclusions: It is expected that this qualitative and co-designed project will strengthen the cross-cultural co-designer relationships and that the data gathered from these relationships, and the accompanying practical outcomes, will provide new insight into the ...