Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann on the Importance of Deep Listening
ABC News In-depth · 29.06.2023 · 30 minutesAboriginal activist, educator and artist Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann began teaching in her Northern Territory community of Nauiyu in the 1970s—but as she explains to Dan Bourchier in this ABC News In-depth Feature, now is the time when her work really begins. She explains the importance of Dadirri or Deep Listening, and walking in two worlds. [Text Source: Link]
“Sometimes when I say, you gotta slow down, let’s go and sit by the riverbank and watch the flow of the river and listen to the sounds of the bird or listen to the wind blowing through the leaves – some people cry, westerners, because they can’t see themselves slowing down.”
