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Scholarships | AWHI

RENEE SECOMB GRANT
2024 Dusk Liney: Development of a trauma informed training module for doulas	As a young adult Renee left her sensible accounting job and joined a travelling theatre group, a decision that helped to shape the rest of her life. When Stacey met Renee many years later she was the Project Manager for Lost Sheep working to create a series of videos and activities for kids that celebrated the amazing diversity of this place known as Australia. She had also recently been diagnosed with liver cancer. Renee decided that the final season of her life would be filled with creativity, beauty, poetry, art and family but most of all dancing. So much dancing. Here's an example of her work: Lie me down, enfold me in your soft feathers. Let me hide in the shadow of your wings. I am tired, tired of waking to this. I seek you, in quiet, away from all the noise. I seek the creator, not the created. Lie me down, hold me and hide me, just for a while, until I have strength again. Feathers by Renee Secomb 2021 This fund supports work of bringing moments joy and hope into the most challenging seasons of life.
JOYCE ELIZABETH CROTHERS GRANT
2024 National Support someone to attend the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship Women's Conference 2023 Jess Ching SURRENDER YLP Indigenous Giving Fund	In honour of Stacey's grandmother who believed in providing the opportunities for learning and education she wasn't able to pursue herself. This fund supports training and education opportunities, in particular for those under-represented, marginalised and historically silenced in faith/sacred, academic/ theological and colonially created/controlled spaces.
SELAH	3 generations of women in Talitha's family
2024 Supported a fundraiser of the Indigenous Hospitality House 2023 Contributed to the attendance of 4 survivors to the Trauma, Abuse & the Church conference Contributed to the Tending to Stories conference 2022 Development and delivery of Subject to Blood workshops	Trauma, abuse and institutional harm have, and continue to cause, intergenerational harm to individuals, families and communities. Surviving the impacts of this are part of Talitha's formation, you can read the results of NZ's Royal Commission of Inquiry here. In 2019, Stacey undertook a qualitative literature review of Australia's Final Report from Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse to identify the theological and doctrinal beliefs and practices of religious institutions which victims and survivors identify as increasing the risk of abuse taking place, inhibit disclosure and promote poor responses by religious institutions. That faith and spiritual practice can (sometimes) survive in spite of Church and Religion is remarkable. Two 'glimmer' images in Talitha's memory are a simple white book of her Nana's with gold italic lettering reading "Selah" on its cover. And an image of the story of her name, cut perhaps from an illustrated bible, and glued to a wooden board which hung in her bedroom as a child and, in the corner, in her Mother's handwriting: "Talitha cumi". Not much is known about the word selah which appears 74 times in the Hebrew Bible. There is a suggestion that it could be some kind of liturgical-musical notation or an instruction on the reading of the text, meaning of "stop and listen". Talitha cumi in the Aramaic means: "Little girl, I tell you - get up." We are resilient, we are creative. We lean into the stories that are hard to hear, and the stories that are hard to tell. There is healing in truth-telling. We lean into silence, therein we hear the song. Stop and listen. This fund supports work of creative resiliency, and development of trauma-informed and decolonising practices, training and resources that redress integenerational harm and work towards a future, a spiritual inheritance for those 7 generations from now, that is different.
SUPPORT THIS WORK	Contributions towards the vision and work of The Recollective can be made many ways, some of the financial ones are... Either via our Buy Me A Coffee page - this is best for people who want to be ongoing supporters of this project and receive updates about its work, starting from $5 one-off or by signing up to make a monthly contribution. Or via Dwell [Ascot Vale Church of Christ] tagged to The Recollective. We have a financial auspice and oversight relationship with Dwell to oversee grant and donation monies. BSB 083-310 Acct 515494126 If you need DGR, want to nominate your gift to a particular area, want to establish a grant of your own, want to hear about the works in progress we are seeking funding for, or learn more about the non-financial ways to support our projects please do not hesitate to contact us, sounds like we should get a coffee.