David Clark

22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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My Trip to Nauiyu, Daly River, 2015

'Dadirri is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness… When I experience dadirri, I am made whole again. I can sit on the riverbank or walk through the trees; even if someone close to me has passed away, I can find my peace in this silent awareness. There is no need of words. A big part of dadirri is listening…’
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22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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‘The Connected Community’ by Cormac Russell and John McKnight

'These community stories of much to teach us about getting better at being human together. The late South African theologian Bishop Desmond Tutu popularised the term Ubuntu, which means “a person is a person through other people”, or “I am because we are.”'
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22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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Factors That Facilitate Addiction Recovery

Recovery is something done by the person with the substance use problem, not by a treatment practitioner or anyone else. Professional treatment or engagement in mutual aid groups may facilitate recovery, but they do so by catalysing and supporting natural processes of...
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22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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Cops and Robbers: Marcus Fair

Marcus knew that the film, Flipped It!, would be his shop window, and maybe his ‘comeback’. Simon hired Colwyn Bay Theatre and invited various dignitaries to the first showing. The place was half-full of addicts and half-full of the great and the good. Even Prince Charles wrote a letter to wish them good luck. The place erupted at the end...
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22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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Stigma & Kintsugi

Huseyin Djemil describes working in a rehab where staff used to put a cover story together for residents so that when they left they didn’t have to reveal their past. He found that difficult and later said to residents, when he became temporary CEO of the rehab, ‘Do you really want to start your new your new life with a cover story...
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22nd September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023
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Three Things to Know About Mental Health and Trauma

‘Human beings are human beings. We don’t change our minds because a bunch of scientists publish a set of recommendations and issue them.... Those don’t change public opinion. What changes people are the storytellers in our society.'
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), Part 2

'In every community, there are connectors: people who value relationships more than single issues and care about community building more than problem solving. Often in the art of finding connectors, it helps to remember it takes one to know one, so once you’ve...'
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Michael’s Recovery Story: ‘The Power of Empathy and Compassion’

I needed to interact with other people and I believe that this is a key element of recovery. Connecting with people and engaging in meaningful activities, interacting with others and communicating. I’d love to see more recovery-related activities in my hometown...
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Senior Australian of the Year 2021: Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

‘Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (AO) is an Aboriginal Elder from Nauiyu (Daly River), where she served for many years as the principal of the local Catholic primary school. She is a renowned artist, writer, activist and public speaker, a remarkable spirit-filled woman known for her reflections on Dadirri (inner deep listening and...
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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James Deakin, Part 3

James Deakin covers a range of topics relating to the functioning of North Wales Recovery Communities (NWRC). These topics included NWRC trying to create as many recovery pathways as possible, involving various mutual aid groups holding meetings at NWRC's Penrhyn House; the power of 'the group' in helping individuals...
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Shame

Shame often plays an important role when a person is developing and/or has developed a drinking problem. In the first clip here, David McCartney describes how shame was part of a major epiphany in his life. He was asked by a woman if he would see her brother and talk about his drinking problem. On the way home after seeing her...
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Drug Addict to Filmmaker: Marcus Fair

On arriving at the prison, Marcus was put in a hospital bed. He was so relieved to be there. One of the prison officers had heard about some of Marcus’s work at TAPE and got him a job doing the prison radio. Marcus loved it. He then did some filming and editing for the prison officer. He was now having the time of his life in prison.
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Untangling the Elements Involved in Addiction Treatment

We concluded that treatment needs to involve a socially engaging environment with multifaceted activities in which clients can learn, implement new skills, and receive feedback from a variety of sources (practitioners, peers, others in recovery, and family members), in order to...
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Eternal Media

Eternal Media is an innovative and inspiring recovery community, which was created by Marcus Fair for the 'Now What?' People in long-term addiction who are wanting to stop using and change their lives, particularly those who have become isolated from mainstream society, are faced with this key question: 'Now What?'
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21st September 2023
Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023
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Safety and Reciprocity in Mental Health: Bessel van der Kolk

'Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else’s mind and heart. For our physiology to to calm down, heal and...'
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