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SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

rav3nSenior Contributor10 June 2025, 6:32 pm AEST

SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

Hey Forumites!!✨

A few weeks ago, the SANE Team attended a conference where @RachSANECEO shared SANE’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which now we get to share with you! You can check out our Journey to Reconciliation, and read all about SANE’s Innovate RAP.

To summarise, our goal for the next 3 years is to:

End mental health inequality through systemic change
Eliminate stigma, discrimination, and social exclusion

We recognise the deep and lasting impact colonisation has had—and continues to have—on the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. With many of the people we support living in regional, rural, and remote areas, developing an Innovate RAP is a meaningful step in advancing our vision and strengthening our commitment to genuine reconciliation.

We want our forums community involved in this step with us – we want you all to reflect on what reconciliation and closing the gap looks like for you.

Here’s our 2 questions to the forums community:

What does reconciliation mean or look like to you? Show us by sharing photos or artworks (make sure to follow the guidelines when posting), or feel free to create your own artwork!

As seen on the RAP (and presented below), ‘Heal the People’ by Kelly Marie Taylor is an artwork that incorporates symbols to express her journey. We’ve copied below some symbols you can use when creating your own art piece (and feel free to google some more symbols).

What’s one way you’re thinking about engaging with reconciliation moving forward? Feel free to also share meaningful ways you’ve engaged in the past and what you’ve learnt from those experiences.

We look forward to seeing everyone’s contributions 💖

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rav3nSenior Contributor30 July 2025, 1:52 pm AEST

Re: SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

@Till23 good pick up! i've passed on the spelling error info to the team, hopefully they'll be able to update that soon - thanks for that!

that makes a lot of sense!!! i've always liked birds (ravens, crows, even mythical creatures like phoenixes)... maybe because to me, it symbolises 'freedom' and maybe escape and protection too? but also to support your point, i am from Victoria, and i do hear people talk about Bunjil here so maybe i've subconsciously picked up on that too! i'll be looking into Biame and Yullangur too, thank you for sharing.

i'm so sorry to hear how tough oct 14th and 15th are for you, having those two days that symbolise two different types of losses sounds incredibly hard. despite it all, i can see that you still fight hard for the Indigenous communities - i don't think they're minor at all. every step contributes to the bigger picture and makes a difference, your advocacy, hard work and dedication to supporting others doesn't go unnoticed.

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Till23Senior Contributor30 July 2025, 3:51 pm AEST

Re: SANE'S INNOVATE RAP - What does reconciliation look like in our community?

Hi @rav3n thanks for looking into that typo

I also love birds and my mob has a very interesting bird as one of our totems.

It was an honour for one of these birds to nest and bring up their young on Dad's property (even though that was not on our country)

I also love the sense of freedom that birds bring to mind and I love sharing the land and sky with them.

I am currently honoured to have "my" magpies, as well as kookaburras, honeyeaters, lorrikeets, rosellas, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and a poor single grey heron (they pair for life - so I am reminded that others walk this earth alone) all sharing my backyard.

I hope I can in some way help other people, including mob

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