What Aboriginal knowledge can teach us about happiness | Sheree Cairney | TEDxStKilda
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2016
- Sheree has spent her adult life working in remote Australia, deep in sacred Aboriginal country, where the sky is blue and the earth burnt-orange. She has a deep respect for the Aboriginal communities who live within that landscape, and her current research hopes to answer some profoundly human questions - How do we define success? What makes us happy? And what can we learn from our ancient brothers and sisters.
Creating a unique nexus between drugs, culture and the brain, Sheree Cairney has worked as a Neuroscientist in remote Aboriginal communities for 17 years. Her research has shed light on the transformation of brain and behaviour that happens-with petrol sniffing, alcohol and other drugs-and led to ground-breaking clinical evidence the brain can repair itself if substance abuse stops early enough. She established culturally relevant assessments of brain function, mental health and wellbeing among Aboriginal people, and her research has been translated into interactive multimedia tools that communicate health and education messages to diverse demographics. These include the ‘Brain Stories’ suite of flipcharts and animations and the highly successful ‘No Smokes’ multimedia campaign. She now leads a national longitudinal study on wellbeing in remote Aboriginal communities, ‘The Interplay Project’. A dedicated change-maker, Sheree is passionate about using knowledge, innovation, humour and e
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Having been so disheartened by the racist/ignorant banter in social media today. Your TED talk was a breath of fresh air and hope.
Hello friend
Well informed talk and thank you Sheree. As an Aboriginal person, stolen gen and survivor of abuse for 15 years, you are right. I am happier than I was as a child institutionalised. It was only when I became a free person, my pursuits to find family, country and culture built for me an essential basis of my identity, its connection to something bigger than myself and self worth. Im successful and fearless now. I have ownership of my potential. This potential has been expressed in some of the following, archaeology, journalism, policy writing, senate candidate (politics), music, film making, writer, counselor, ambulance officer, etc etc. Life for me is a much greater experience than when I was that sad, scared little girl who felt owned and deeply lost.
Beautiful ❤️
I am Aboriginal and I can tell you happiness comes and goes.The same with sadness and grief all is cyclic as is life the key to a good life is to accept that you are on a journey and all that happens is niether good or bad it is all part of your journey.
I love witnessing the resurgence of the indigenous peoples of the world. They have much to teach us about working with nature instead of trying to tame it. Best wishes
you know nothing vincent
@@onyabike4205 nothing about what?
@@onyabike4205 do you feel big?
Could not agree more :)
This is beautiful. I wish there was a unit on aboriginal culture at school. Not just on stolen generation but aboriginal culture that celebrates their ancient history, customs, and values.
One of their customs was casting women outside the tribe to live in the woods during every menstruation cycle.... You want to celebrate that, and more tribal types of customs?? Read a book and stop living in the fantasy world created by the radical left
@@onyabike4205 and puritanical societies that established colonies murdered innocent young women simply for speaking their monds or acting different, obviously we mean the none problematic parts of culture
Hello friend how are you doing
@@puketinmoarliek994 thank you.
@@puketinmoarliek994 Christian culture was the most savage, cannibalistic, imperialistic, and nihilistic culture. There is no other culture that can match, the sheer egotism that Christianity has spread across the world, money came as a result, which ruined most psychological cultures, making them materialistic cultures.
Nothing but Love & Respect to this lady. All the way from Wiradjuri Country Thubbo
Hi cee cee,
I've live in Wiradjuri Country for a long time, but I'm not familiar with the area you call "Thubbo ", could you please tell me how I'm able to visit this area, and which towns are surrounding it.
Thanks.
I'm yolngu and thank you for straight talking.
So Good To Hear From This Beautiful Education Lady Who Tapped Into Our People Culture And Lives, Together We Can Achieve So Much in Two Worlds Coming Together As One. Walking Together And Sharing Both Sides Of Our Culture Will Bring Us Closer To Our Goals Of Walking 👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣 And Will Bridge That Gap That's Been 230 Years Of The Making! For All Australia's This Is The First Of Many Steps Forwards To A Brighter Future And A Closer Community!
Brilliant...your work and genuine enthusiasm is wonderful. The culture of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is special, it would be great if everyone in Australia could know about this and feel so proud to walk together on this amazing land.
I loved this ted talk I am aboriginal and you speak our culture history and beliefs, the discoragedness of beliefs but how they conflict with anothers.
Thank you for being so open to living and learning
Mad respect ✊🏾 and love from Samoa 🇼🇸
When you look within, its amazing how much richness you will find in the simpleness of life. I after living in remote communities found my own insight and connectedness.
I think the term 'simple' is wrong
Nature and the spiritual aspect of life is THE most complex thing in existence.
an example of what is 'simple' is machinery and technology, non sentiment mechanisms that despite having complex designs, they don't adapt or learn. Rather, they plow through everything to get to the goal. THAT, is simple.
sorry, I'm just adding my 2 cents
I am agreeing/understanding what you are saying.
THis is the first person that has ever made sense to me, and I'm Aboriginal.⚫🟡🔴
Thank you for your perspective and understanding the affairs of our culture! It brings me to tears to know other people actually want to learn about us and that times are changing to bring us from all cultures closer together
I absolutely want to learn so much! Such a wealth of culture to humbly learn from
I do. I watch and read a lot because it's a beautiful culture and should be revered and understood. I think that Aboriginal spiritual connection to the Earth and to each other, the true meaning of community, is just some of what's lacking in the rest of our society.
"Walk with us." Thanks for sharing the wisdom.
Hello friend how are you doing
What a great testament to the importance of listening to what Aboriginal Australians have to say, a shared knowledge and views of the world would give Australian culture a much deeper, meaningful and colourful aspect to it.
Thank you TED talk, as a descendant and authour of two books' Wurruwarrin Where the Wind Blows' and' Soul of Woman embraces Heart of Man' I am interested in a Two Way Culture Reconciliation process, and you have hit the nail on the head. Thank you again
Hello friend how are you doing today over There and hope you are fine with peace and love over there?
Also part of the reason so many of us have such mix of emotions is because not all of us have our mobs anymore, alot of us are not connected with the land like we use to and alot of us feel closer with our own people than with others. Speaking from an indigenous perspective
I like that Marie-Sol Hidalgo. "Walk with us". A great segway message into any discussion, about understanding indigenous thinking, culture and behaviours.
A real Human.
Thank u fer the beautiful talk n share.
Terrific, thought-provoking talk. I was particularly struck by the line "..work that lets you operate from the safety & strength of your own culture, enables you to be true to who you are." There's perhaps a deeper thing here, about our identity & authenticity and the power that stems from being true to ourselves. The important nuance here though is how culture - the culture that each individual is a part of - is recognised as an important part of our identity. ie. To be true to ourselves, we need to recognise and be true to our culture.
This needs to be seen. Great talk.
I was in a meeting with this wonderful lady, it was so great to listen to her talk
Wonderful. Take the knowledge of happiness that the Aboriginals brought you and go back to wherever you came with it.
this is so interesting. Thank you for taking the time to learn and then share.
Wonderful, beautiful and so meaningful. Thank you for this talk, Sheree. I am a former neuroscientist who has found something very special in Aboriginal people.
David Clark like lower average IQ?
He said something special in aboriginal ppl not you lol
Tell us more friend x)
@@Johan-st4rv your not exactly projecting any intelligence.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 I am a certified mensa genius.
The "first people" of Australia "see" the world and what they hold of value through a different lens , the problem comes about when our people try and look at there challenges through "our lens" we must learn to "see" through another "lens" we need to "see" and "hear" each other and not make effort to try and "steer the others ship.
What's with all the " "
thank you so much for this talk Sheree - I think my mind was blown away - and I remembered the amazing experiences that I had a few years ago when I worked from time to time in the Kimberleys and Pilbarra - that there is so much for us to learn. And your Happiness survey - is a delight and so true - and how could we possibly think that we can measure so many things from our limited view of the earth.
I love this woman and her crazy hair! She's so cute! Thank you for this video; I live in B.C Canada, but I've always had a fascination with Australia, especially their aboriginals.
do u mean... a fascination with Aboriginals + their land (the country known as Australia?)
@@frodojitsu Very sorry, I didn't mean to offend!
@@tenderlemon3318 offense is all they have to offer
@A Rose did my comment offend you ??
Maybe you should start a protest or an online petition.....
Thank you Sheree.
I have been learning of aboriginal knowledge recently from my readings and research which is so deep and intertwined with our mother... the Earth in ways even science is starting to understand and value. It would be a major loss for humanity for us to not let them practice their culture and for us not to learn about them. It opened my eyes to what is possible.
If you want a life changing read pickup “Voices of the First Day” by Robert Lawler.
Yeah The Dreamtime views are very colorful, rainbowish, tydyed, spiraled, And swirled
Thank you for speaking sense! 💖
Are you sure that perhaps you went into the wrong field and should have been an anthropologist instead... Beautiful description of the funeral it moved me tears at such a fantastic culture of the aborigines. I have always been very attracted to them for some reason and yet it remains like a dreamtime story as it never happened. I was almost engaged to an Australian native who lived quite remotely but the engagement did not work out in the end. That would have been a fascinating path to walk indeed! Sending best wishes from Colorado Springs. Respectfully, Tiffanie Q
Superb talk, THANK YOU!!
I have never stepped foot on the continent of Australia, but this was an excellent presentation on a subject I have been introduced to through my business.
Speaking more generally, many minority groups from all around the world feel repressed by the values held by larger society. They rightly feel that it is the larger society which should learn to listen to them, as they have already been forced to listen to the larger society. Culture, religion and even health condition can create huge disconnects which can then become a crisis to even survive. The larger society, always on the move, abstracts survival into cultural adhesion with itself. It is frequently intolerant of the lifestyles of those who choose other paths which are more simple or old. New meaning is created in conversations, but that takes humility to achieve and progress into what is new often holds us back from listening to the wisdom of what is old. In the process we lose ourselves. The Aborigines have a lot of wisdom to offer the world and their voice should be heard.
Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot
@@sirsillybilly So the highest rate of deaths in incarceration and disproportionate rates of substance abuse is caused by "hype"
What an awesome presentation.
Amazing video ! thank you for sharing
Thank you!
Walk with us, warmed my heart ❤️
Thank you, so informative, makes me want to be with these people even more, to understand- their understanding.
Fantastic talk Sheree!
What a fantastic talk
This story is awesome, its making me want to know more about how we can close the gap on cultural education in everyday living. Aboriginal people have such a rich and beautiful heritage and so much knowledge on how to care for our country, there is so much they have to offer, to teach us about themselves and life here in Australia
Very important research and action explained by a great speaker. Thanks for sharing
Awesome. Thank you.
thank you so much I needed this, it's so like Maori>>>New Zealand.
This is so helpful for my assessment. Thank you for sharing :)
A preserved ancient culture of course can teach something about science. Especially if it's thousands of years old.
Yeah. “Voices of the First Day” by Robert Lawler dives into the science and deeper connections they have with the Earth and beyond. When you analyze their culture through a scientific lens you find that their beliefs are built on something so profound and otherworldly that we need them much more than they need us. Many westerners have lost the second half of the equation... our spiritual knowings. These people still have it.
Right on!
Fantastic, thought provoking, informative, enjoyed the humour and the insights thanks _/\_
I love this so on track can be used to understand families and all people we need to walk with each other listen not label but except each other loose fear and not to intimidate
Just brilliant
Amazing. Inspiring. Thought provoking.
Love it.
This is insightful.
This is amazing
Hello friend how are you doing today
Love the ending :)
Wonderful - your learnings, teachings and insights are so valuable. With my little project ' STEM Ginger Education', I seek to connect peoples, cultures and places so that, as your Aboriginal friend says: we can walk together and share knowledge from very different world views ... very wise.
Wonderful
I agree, last century my first teaching position was in Doomadgee. I taught English and Art. Guess what, there was no history being taught, wonder why? They did bring in people from the community to teach culture etc. One of my students was Alec Doomadgee. He has done so well for himself, his family and the community.
Exactly!
Brilliant
The first Australian Aboriginal people must be given a voice in government
They have, they get elected just like everyone else
@@kaptnpee8572 everybody to their own opinion the Aboriginal people did not have a voice and every time they spoke up they were suppressed now they are no longer suppress and yes now their lands have been given back to their people that are rightfully there's and of their ancestors they have voice a very strong voice.. never to be broken
This is so inspiring I hope Kevin Wyatt sees this.
Best speech. Very clever person
wow, that really struck me. Why do we learn Japanese, Italian, German, Indonesian, etc in our schools? Why aren't we learning about our local languages? I was told we only speak English in Australia. I never even thought about that until now. wow.
The purpose of school is to give people the skills they need to find jobs.
Speaking a language that opens up opportunities to trade and negotiate with people from other prosperous nations is a useful life skill to learn.
Learning a language spoken only by a tiny minority of people who have no business or trade to offer is at best a hobby at worst a complete waste of time.
The first Australian Aboriginal people must be given a voice in government.
As a direct 'product' of several European grandparents who came to Australia independently in the early 1900s, I guess I should be sincerely grateful that I exist at all. One might conclude without their arrival here, chance meeting and DNA input, I wouldn't exist. Ergo, it bewilders me to see so many of obvious caucasion appearance who claim indigenous origins, while displaying such contempt for their European ancestors and fellow Australians. Is it genuine concern for the early injustices or perhaps the many concessions on offer including narcissistic self promotion and monetary gain?
This message needs to be shown by Mainstream Media.
The term aboriginal is white fulla world view. It's introduced. It's like calling Uluru Ayres rock....imported language destroys identity and spirit.
Thank you. A really fabulous presentation
Yeh yeh and then in two years the new term is offensive and then everyone has to listen to how offended you are and tick off your new list of demands.
The irony is you’re talking English.
@@sirsillybilly do you realise what the term actually means and why it carries a sting of insult?
Ab- original has the same word structure as
Ab- normal
Therefore 'aboriginals' are, anybody who is not original to this continent. I find that derogatory term offensive
Ngawu bama nanji
ngayang nyirrima bulwai
Nyundu gaba nyirrima binagari
I also find it ironic that you're technically the aboriginal :'D
@@sirsillybilly What's wrong with an Aboriginal not liking that word? "New list of demands" yeah them Aboriginals are just so demanding what with their desire for more visibility and representation and whatnot
Us white Australians should embrace Aboriginal culture
It's not white people. It's the government that needs to wake up.
3:32 Hmm?
As if you’d thumbs this down?! There is nothing to be disliked. Smh
If humans really this evolved and modern i feel sorry for the world if this is new thinking lmao. The presenter did an amazing job.
Nice talk. Be careful monetizing the programs you put forth.
One
Freedom no such thing today.
Aboriginal knowledge got me pretty happy the other night drinkin metho from bunnings
I know aboriginals that are highly educated, sure there are many issues in there communities. Some of them have adapted well to modern society. And yet you are still stuck in a 18th century mindset, so you prove you have not evolved at all. Just because you are white doesn't mean you are guilty of being smart, you are riding on our coat tails 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like your mother picked it up as a hobby whilst you were in the womb and you just kept a family tradition going. If it isn’t that, I feel sorry for whatever your parents did to you anyway. Stay strong lost king 🤟🏾
@@perryperryprince3242 If u really feel dat way about me then why dont u help me find my way.... Instead of just bein mean.... Just saying
@@onyabike4205 My bad if I have to disclose how I really feel about you. I’ll give a little nugget of advice, keep you chin up . I know it’s hard as a non indigenous person with a RUclips account and a sub par wifi connection. In that lonely room I’m sure you can justify your existence online. Still here for you, sincerely in your darkest days littlest one 🙏🏾
I’m indigenous so if you want to elaborate about how you truly feel the floor is yours lil man 🙏🏾 still praying for you even though I’m not religious. It’s more of a sentiment or turn of phrase for those who are truly lost 🙏🏾
What's the difference between us and them? Nothing? We all human--- get it right!
The difference is culture
@@korza538 they live in brick houses, speak English, go to the shopping centre, drive cars, watch TV and wear denim jeans.
It seems they have absorbed a lot of Western culture...just not the bits they chose to reject....cultural selectivism.
For a minute there I thought she was talking about 'Māori' people LOL!!! Silly me.
in german we say pumuckl
Here's what I've learned about Aboriginals from 26 years in Australia - Drunk, aggressive, self entitled assholes who refuse to work and 100% are on welfare.
The first Australians of this land caretakers knowledge givers now is the time to give back the rights to all the lands and Las will climate change only change then
@A D The white man gave them alcohol.
It’s almost as though you’re saying races are different and more than just a social construct. Who would’ve guessed?
3:46, did bro forget to put something into her pocket, and then awkwardly change the subject.
I would never guess this woman was aboriginal. She looks like maybe she would be Irish, or British.
Yeah, colonisation and culture assimilation does that.
Fredrik Zachrisson she isn’t. She worked with Aboriginal people. However many Aboriginal people do have light skin
Leave them out, of your community.
Where are you getting your data. Highest suicide rate, highest domestic violence, highest incarceration these don't sound like the products of happiness.
Where she was culture is still strong. So some of those don't apply. But some do.
@@evanhadkins5532 "culture"???
Like 4 wheel drive vehicles, guns, welfare payments and public housing.
@@warwicklewis8735 I think your prejudice is obvious.
@@evanhadkins5532 I think you are blinded by your own political opinion.
Facts are facts they are not prejudiced they are simply true !!
@@warwicklewis8735 Yes, facts are facts. And which ones are selected reveal prejudice.
Wow! We have this problem in the USA as well. I think the colonials are the ones with the bad attitudes that lead to trouble. Respect is essential. I love the wild hair of this scientist.
Can be applied to most indigenous populations across the world. I'm jealous of how New Zealand treats their indigenous - they integrate their culture so well into the school curriculum so every child is educated further than just "they were here before white people"
hope dean wow good on them
@@thebridge5483 ... was that sarcasm?
hope dean no
I really wish the best for Aboriginal people whatever their future holds, but I'm personally fed up with being made to feel like an illegal unworthy imposter to this beautiful country. I was born here, my parents were born here, and their parents were born here, Australia is all I know, and I love Australia. Migration to Australia was as inevitable as was the original migration of people from Africa to the rest of the world millions of years ago as scientists have discovered.
We are all of this Earth we all need to compliment each other and care for each other rather than trying to divide each other out of differences of culture, otherwise we may as well be treating others differently out of their religion and we all know how that goes down. Just as I'm expected to respect Aboriginal culture and people, so should the Aboriginal people show respect for others and stop labeling us as colonising entities. Just as Aboriginal people can possibly teach us about the land, many immigrants have provided exceptional health care treatments, housing, etc for Aboriginals suffering issues that they would most likely never be able to resolve by themselves. We are all of this Earth, there is no second home.
Self entitled heritary land owners are one of the things Australia was proud to have left behind in England.
200 years latter they are creating a whole new genre of ancestrally privelidged bigots.
@@warwicklewis8735 what a load of horse$hit!
You are right in much of your points ... the only major one I believe you failed to mention and is likely the most important 1 is you acknowledge your people csme here after the aborigines and the aborigines were already here and had systems / laws in place that governed land ownership etc etc etc now in western law another group cannot come on to another’s land and take it claim it in the name of another country without certain procedures being followed under western law...
The towering stinger hepatosplenomegaly milk because whale clinicopathologically spell under a bouncy brown. brown, precious journey
Her own country..... Really??? What a joke
Did you listen to the entire speech?
Gerry,
Your comments are those of a non-indigenous persona.
Very negative.
The indigenous are NOT of whiteman thought process nor are their values that of a monetary greed, they cannot be compared to whitemans ways , these ideals have been forced upon them over a long time.
Like most things it become ingrained in their thinking and behaviour.
Without whitemans influence, like in Arnhem Land, they flourish in all aspects of life, and as you can see, they don't have the mental and physical health problems that mainstream Australians have.
What can Aboriginal culture tell us about happiness? ...Ask Pascoe...he wrote about it in his fairy tale book! Here is the same bs! Vote NO
If you were born here in Australia you are a native to this country.
Now for those claiming its only aboriginals… *So…* *you don’t consider Australian aborigines to be human?* *wow that’s abit harsh*
Either aborigines are not ‘indigenous’ to Australia and their ancestors travelled to this continent just like every one else or they’re are ‘indigenous’ to Australia but not homosapians.
OR EVERYONE BORN HERE IS NATIVE
😂😂😂😂😂 that’s what you TELL yourself because you know your not native to Australia. Wait let me use your logic here um im gonna go get some native trees and plants and plant them in Australia nah those are native now... um let’s bring some tigers and pandas put them in the outback native animals now 😂😂😂 good on you
@@mataafa1
*Are aborigines native?*
Cos using your 'logic' of _"lets bring some tigers and pandas put them in the outback native animals now..."_ the same applies to them, "lets bring some primitive hunter gather tribes and they find themselves in outback nah those are native now..."
*SO THEREFORE, Aborigines are either;*
*- Lol native to Australia, or*
*- lol they are human beings* *(homosapiens)*
PICK ONE
cos only one of above can be true
How can we all be happy like Aboriginals?
Never have to worry about wages, tax, bills, building homes, health care, where your next meal is coming from, ownership of land with no threats of invasion or new neighbours all the while people come in droves to buy and praise my finger paintings.
No wonder they think they have the secret to happiness.
Ridiculous
Judging by your comments you have the intelligence of a fish. Not a Murray cod, a gold fish.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 i have all the intelligence of the rainbow serpent!!
I am 1/2 aboriginal and i can tell u for a fact that it is childish and counterproductive to romanticise aboriginal culture and tribal cultures in general... See how much modern aboriginals and modern whites like you would like these tribal cultures if u lived in them back hundreds of years ago... You'd drop the virtue signalling quick smart!!
Look up the realities of tribal cultures, and how holding onto them is holding these people back and harming them...
But if you're born of the land you are a Aboriginal. Regardless of you're family history. I am indigenous of this land (Australia)
wrong.
Just another way to look at what you're saying - would you say the same thing about cats, foxes, rabbits, and cane toads?
You were born here - as was I - but that doesn't make us less introduced.
Indigenous means native to the land. As Kettie said, we were 'introduced' whether you want to admit it or not.
Sari Batiste
Like the dingo
Doesn’t work like that