Roots & Resilience: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Mental Health

Healing Has Always Been Here Reconnecting to Self, Community and Mother Earth

You are warmly invited to a rare and intimate gathering - a conversation with four wise elder women, each carrying a living tradition of healing, as they share their stories, wisdom, and lived experience in service to others.

The conversation will take its own path, on the day, and include each persons experience and particular lens, with an invitation to share personal experience of transformation / growth. Additionally the hope is that this conversation will serve to inspire and further resource those working in human services and community.

Long before "wellbeing" became a buzzword, these women's traditions were already tending to the human spirit through connection to land, community, kinship, and lineage. This event is an invitation to sit with that wisdom - to reconnect to self, to each other, and to the living world.

Meet the Elders

Misha Crosbie : Aotearoa New Zealand

Academic Lecturer, Counsellor and Retreat Facilitator

Jessica Fleming : United States of America

Counsellor and Retreat / Vision Quest Leader

Margarete Koenning : Colombian born, European raised

Gestalt Therapist and Family Constellations Practitioner

Dinnawan : Indigenous Wakka-Kabi Elder

Wisdom Keeper, Elder and Healer

What We'll Explore

Reconnect to Mother Earth - healing rooted in land, nature, and the living world

Reconnect to Each Other - the healing power of community, kinship, and belonging

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds - what our grandmothers knew that science is only now naming

Who This Is For

This gathering is designed for UniSC students and alumni, and professionals working within the human services sector. It offers an informative, experiential space honouring relationship - with self, community, and the living world.

Details

📅 Date: 25th September 2026

🕑 Time: 2:30 -4:30PM 📍

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3 - Located on the Ground level of Building I - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University Sunshine Coast

For more venue information: https://studentvip.com.au/usc/main/maps/61122

Places are limited — secure your ticket to be part of this conversation.