Social Work Spotlight

Episide 117: Kit


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In this episode I speak with Kit, a descendent of the Wampanoag tribe in Canada and with German, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Kit has worked as a counsellor and trainer for over 20 years specialising in mental health and addictions and is currently a clinical supervisor and the founder and director of Nature Based Therapy in Victoria.


Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

  • Nature Based Therapy - https://www.naturebasedtherapy.com.au/

  • Outdoor Health Australia - https://www.outdoorhealth.org.au

  • Children & Nature Network - https://www.childrenandnature.org

  • Richard Louv’s ‘Last Child in the Woods’ - https://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/

  • Richard Louv’s ‘Vitamin N’ - https://richardlouv.com/books/vitamin-n/

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass’ - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/braiding-sweetgrass-9780141991955

  • Julie Baird’s ‘Phosphorescence’ - https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460710890/phosphorescence/


This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17hNP3_fXvgJ2cnUOuvISOkuqpJY6ufawgGk61m_vkvw/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.

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