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Cultural learning experiences through virtual reality
The VR Dreaming experience has been created to enhance how health educators deliver cultural learning experiences towards developing culturally safe health professionals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare.
Virtual Kaurna community
Professor James Charles has created an evidence-based 15-minute immersive interactive learning and healing experience.
You are transported back 20,000 years to Kaurna community, South Australia, for a sharing of Kaurna stories and knowledge. Then you will virtually heal an injured 60-year-old Kaurna man using traditional medicines, therapies and treatments.
Virtual Kaurna community evidence
2020 Charles, J & O'Brien, L, 'The Survival of Aboriginal Australians through the Harshest Time in Human History: Community-Strength.', International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 14 https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v15i1.33925.
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The First Peoples Health Unit acknowledges the wisdom inherent in the Traditional Custodians of Australia as the oldest surviving culture in the world. We recognise their custodianship of the land on which all Griffith University campuses are located. We recognise the connection to their land, air, sea and community. We would like to pay our respect to their Elders and Leaders that are past, present, and future. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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