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Relational Selfhood, Trauma, and the Limits of Individualised Psychology: Colonial Harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ways of Being


Our Third Webinar of 2026

We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming session with Maya Schenker!  

🖌️ Topic:  Relational Selfhood, Trauma, and the Limits of Individualised Psychology: Colonial Harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ways of Being 
🗓️ When: Thurs July 9th at 4:00 PM AEDT
🌐 Where: Online (details upon registration)

By the end of this webinar, attendees will have learned the following:

  • Understand Indigenous Australian understandings of selfhood as relational, locational, and ethical states of being, including the concepts of autonomous regard and relational obligation.

  • Critically reflect on how differing ontologies of selfhood influence the recognition, interpretation, and cultural responsiveness of trauma work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

  • Identify how assumptions of autonomous selfhood embedded in mainstream trauma frameworks conflict with Indigenous Australian relational understandings of knowing, being, doing and belonging.

      This event is free for ASTSS members, $45 for non-members, and $30 for students! 

      🔗 Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/relational-selfhood-trauma-and-the-limits-of-individualised-psychology-colonial-harm-to-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-ways-of-being/tickets

      Relational Selfhood, Trauma, and the Limits of Individualised Psychology: Colonial Harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ways of Being

      When:

      July 9th 2026

      Time: 4:00pm AEST

      Speakers:

      Mary Goslett

      Where:

      Online

      About our speakers...

      Mary Goslett
      Mary is a Yuin Budawang woman, Clinical Psychologist and Ahpra Board Approved Supervisor. She has a private psychology, supervision and consultancy practice specialising in Indigenous Australian psychology and culturally responsive therapeutic practice, emotional dysregulation, performing arts psychology, PTSD and Complex Trauma. Mary has been a psychotherapist for 30 years and a psychologist for 12, with a long and varied history in community work, adult education and mental health services. She lectures in Indigenous Australian psychology as well as conducting training workshops and programs for journalists, creatives, and psychologists and other mental health and social services professionals. Mary is a Professional Practice Fellow of the University of Western Australia and a Director of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA). She is a co-author of the Listening More suite of resources for providing culturally responsive supervision for psychologists, and of a chapter, “wangii wadhan biyay” – bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous psychologies together within a decolonising framework; another on “Deep Yarning”, an Indigenous psychotherapeutic model; and is co-developer of the 6Ps x 8 domains formulation tool for working with Indigenous Australians.