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Finding Wawu - The (Embodied) Connect and Care Book Series 1
Discover, Reflect and Integrate book series
"A simple yet extremely complex book series for finding self amongst the chaos and rigidity of others."
We are so much more than what we feel or think yet we consume ourselves within these two upper modes of being, at the neglect of our foundational mode, our (embodied) connect and care mode. Wawu (Woe-woo) is a word borrowed from the Kuku-Yalanji (Goo-goo - Ya-lan-gee) language of the people of Wujal-Wujal in Far North Queensland Australia, meaning spirit, love, heart and our connections to others. It’s our Wawu, our Inner Essence, Chi, Prana, Reiki, Spirituality, Godliness, Life Force, whichever we wish to call it, that is genetically wired to reach out through our nervous system, to connect to and to care about another. Without a strong (embodied) connect and care experience early in life, our upper modes take over and our relationship with ourselves is changed forever. The Finding Wawu book series was designed to inspire the reader to look at mental health differently and shows us how to Find Wawu, even if we lost it, a long time ago….
Book 1 - Finding Wawu: Bella’s Search For Understanding
In this story, Bella feels the rigid thinking and chaotic feelings of others while her grandpa reassures her she is safe and secure with him. Eventually, Bella finds her Wawu and grandpa helps her to understand her gift of seeing what others fail to see.
Book 2 - Finding Wawu: Bailey Sees His Wawu
Grandpa invites Bailey for a walk into the city where he is helped to notice that people can think or feel too much. In the last shop, Bailey discovers his own Wawu by seeing things differently.
Book 3 - Finding Wawu: Nellie Walks With Wawu
After an invasion of a certain insect at home, grandpa takes Bella and the twins, Nellie and Bailey out for the day to visit two people who found their Wawu. Along the way, Nellie experiences her own Wawu by walking beside others.
Book 4 - Finding Wawu: Coming together in Wawu
When Bella, Bailey, Nellie and grandpa make a stop over on their way home from a day at the beach, the children observe some interesting things going on at the mall. Grandpa latter shares his story of when he was young and what helped him to make his Wawu stronger. Mum joins in.
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Copyright, reprinting, distribution and educational opportunities.
If you enjoyed reading the Finding Wawu series of books and would like print versions or copyright permission to reprint or distribute the books in classrooms or your community, please contact me and lets see how we may best serve our families, friends, children and communities with a different way of understanding mental health difficulties.
Book 1 is the primary focus as the other books in the series simply reinforce the original story. The "Finding Wawu" companion book series, based on this original book series is also available.
Possible opportunities -
Reprint for personal use
Reprint for distribution of educational / class material
Rewritten and personalised using alternate language word for 'Wawu' (meaning our spirit, love, heart and our connections to others) as used in other clan groups. ie: From Finding Wawu to "Finding ---------"
Rewritten completely using Indigenous language translations of preferred clan group.
Note: My work will be donated towards any Indigenous language translations on the condition that it remains the copyright work of the clan group community and not the translator.
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