Yarning Circles WA is a First Nations owned design and construct company, building Yarning Circles for schools, shires, communities and businesses in collaboration with Aboriginal Elders and Custodians on whose land our clients seek to build their Yarning Circle.

Yarning Circles WA is a business initiative of the heart in response to the invitation issued by Australia’s Indigenous Peoples in the form of the Uluru Statement from The Heart. The Statement asks for all Australians to walk together in reconciliation to create a new and better future for us all. The Uluru Statement from the Heart seeks a Voice, Treaty and Truth Telling.

Yarning Circles WA office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk and Binjareb people and our timber production area is located on Maradong Country, traditional lands of the Wiilman people both areas exist within the Gnaala Karla Booja and the greater Noongar Boodja. We work on lands throughout Western Australia and acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community and pay our respects to their cultures, Ancestors and Elders.

Yarning Circles are basically meeting and storytelling spaces, preferably built outdoors, and they can range in scale from simple areas that accommodate four to six people, to school outdoor classroom size to larger community gathering and sharing spaces.

Importantly, yarning circles can be culturally activated by local Indigenous Elders and include indigenous artwork, stories, language and ceremony.

Yarning Circles can actively contribute to this new and better future by establishing places within each local community where truth telling, sharing and listening to each other, conducting ceremony, learning and celebrating our shared culture is made possible.

Our Mission

Smoking Ceremony performed by Ash Collard

Little Learners smoking Ceremony performed by Ash & Kelly Collard of Kab Art n Design

Our mandate, wherever possible, is to include the appropriate Indigenous Elders, artists, Aboriginal Groups and community in the design, construction and activation of each yarning circle. It is our hope that such an engagement process itself acts as a pathway of reconciliation and connectedness.

Each yarning circle will have its own creation story and form, one which reflects the rich and diverse history of a place and its people.

Projects

Yarning Circle WA Projects

Madeley Primary School

ARTIST - Kevin Bynder ELDER - Oriel Green
Covalent Lithium Project

PROJECT CONSULTATIONS: Michael Indich: Local Elder, Dylan Collard: Noongar language teacher, Tom Murphy: Covalent Lithium, Principal Communities and Indigenous Liaison, Kathy Pross: Covalent Lithium, Advisor Communities and Indigenous Liaison.
Beaconsfield Primary School Yarning Circle

PROJECT CONSULTANTS: Freda Ogilvie: Local Whadjuk Ballardon Elder, Betty Garlett: Local Nyoongar Elder, Nicole Harris: AIEO, Beaconsfield Primary, Anne Cameron: President, Beaconsfield School P&C, Indigenous students of Beaconsfield Primary
Covalent Lithium Project

PROJECT CONSULTATIONS: Michael Indich: Local Elder, Dylan Collard: Noongar language teacher, Tom Murphy: Covalent Lithium, Principal Communities and Indigenous Liaison, Kathy Pross: Covalent Lithium, Advisor Communities and Indigenous Liaison.
Animal Totem Wood Carving

Beaconsfield Primary School Project
Animal Totem Wood Carving

Beaconsfield Primary School Project
Welcome Sign in Noongar

Covalent Lithium Project
Beaconsfield Yarning Circle

PROJECT CONSULTANTS: Freda Ogilvie: Local Whadjuk Ballardon Elder, Betty Garlett: Local Nyoongar Elder, Nicole Harris: AIEO, Beaconsfield Primary, Anne Cameron: President, Beaconsfield School P&C, Indigenous students of Beaconsfield Primary
Beaconsfield Yarning Circle Opening Fire Ceremony

PROJECT CONSULTANTS: Freda Ogilvie: Local Whadjuk Ballardon Elder, Betty Garlett: Local Nyoongar Elder, Nicole Harris: AIEO, Beaconsfield Primary, Anne Cameron: President, Beaconsfield School P&C, Indigenous students of Beaconsfield Primary
Seasonal BIRAK Wood Carving Pole

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