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Cindy Anne Mathers

I have travelled my own unique path in a quest to find out how to create fairer systems for us all. I am known as an innovative change-maker and, despite many efforts, I have failed to fit into the current systems. For over twenty-five years, I have lived and worked around my country, Australia, as a nurse, teacher, mentor, holistic educator, adult trainer, and volunteer. I have witnessed first-hand the impact that traumatised systems, have on us all, especially in the education and health sectors and particularly on the First Nations people. I have spent thousands of hours of study, travel, and volunteering, and have been on my own personal and ancestral healing journey.
I am aware that the disrespect and disregard of Human Rights at the time of colonisation created trauma that has remained in the collective psyche. I understand that, as a country, we need to acknowledge we have all been impacted and that the restoration of Human Rights for all is needed for healing and moving forward together. I have created The DELVE Formula™ as a simple pathway, using a Human Rights approach to creating change and new systems. You can download a one page summary below.

Sharing My Stories

I believe healing at an individual, ancestral, and collective level is possible, and together, we can do it.

  • In DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility you will find a learning pathway forward, based on respect and deep listening.

  • I created The DELVE Formula™ as a collaborative way to implement change in our nation:

  • DECONSTRUCT—how did we get here as a nation?
  • EXPLORE—the impact of abuse of Human Rights on us all
  • LISTEN—and learn, with deep presence to the stories of First Nations people
  • VIABLE—what First Nations-led / collaborative initiatives are working?
  • ENERGISE—what works and fund community-led, place-based initiatives.

  • In my book I apply this pathway to my real-life projects and experiences. It is a succinct and practical resource for those who wish to learn Cultural Humility and become part of creating a new nation that respects the Human Rights of all. There are questions and spaces to reflect at the end of each chapter to integrate and consolidate what you have learned. This is the sort of information that I would have liked to have learned in my ten years of university and when I arrived, knowing nothing, to live and work in a remote town with a high First Nations population in the 1990s.

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What People Say

  • Demystifying the Impact of Colonisation on Us All DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility: How Respect and Deep Listening Can Heal a Nation by Cindy Mathers is an amazing, timely and vitally important resource for anyone interested in the complex issues of post colonisation inequalities. The book makes complex historical events and their connection to modern day inequities easy to understand and accessible (not an easy feat!) The book also introduces the DELVE system as a new and transformative way to create a country where everyone can thrive, and each chapter has powerful reflection questions at the end that are extremely helpful to integrate the chapter's main points. In addition, the author's stories from her experience over many decades in this work are captivating. She's clearly a national treasure in a nation's journey of equity, inclusion and valuing of its First Nations people.
    Lori McDaniel, Global Project Leader, Trainer Cultural Intelligence CQ, Certified Facilitator, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Trainer and Leadership Trainer, USA.
  • DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility is life-changing! This book provides a structure for readers to understand why our systems are biased and desperately need re-engineering. The complexity of our global world has uncovered the critical need for collective efficacy where diverse teams co-create a new way of being while collaborating through the sensitive tapestry of diversity. The author provides real-life stories to unveil how trauma impacts individuals, generations, and ancestral habits where painful stories, once understood, heal. These stories continue to divide us into those that can and those that cannot. Moreover, this book provides tools and structures that teams will find as resources to build new systems and communities where everyone evolves, grows, and thrives.
    Dr. Kathleen Lynne Miller, Independent Consultant and Transformational Leadership Coach specialising in creating innovative change in education, USA.
  • DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility: How Respect and Deep Listening Can Heal A Nation is a rich and valuable resource. Cindy Anne Mathers gives us an important and brilliantly delivered exploration of how to practice cultural humility in the 21st Century. As a Non-First Nations person, she distills her 25 years of personal, collective and collaborative experience as a changemaker in the systems of healthcare and education in First nations communities throughout Australia. The prompts and invitations she offers are incisive, compelling, and accessible– relevant for anyone grappling with the impact of colonization who wishes to heal the traumas and harms of oppression. Mathers talks about truth telling, and she shows us how to do it with candor and heart.
    Sasha Soreff Resonant Healing Practitioner, Certified Transformational Coach, Choreographer, New York, United States
  • This book is a must read. The DELVE Formula is soundly based and needs to be embedded in the curriculum of universities for the cultivation of Cultural Humility in our future leaders, educators and health professionals. DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility is an important work nourished by the humility and wisdom that transcends differences. It is also a practical tool for generating beneficial shifts in the awareness, understanding and behaviours of non-Indigenous people generally as well as those engaged in the Indigenous world. It is part of a new way forward for everyone to walk together.
    Greg Campbell, Author of Total Reset: Realigning with our timeless holistic blueprint for living, 2023, Western Australia.
  • Walking and working together to heal all peoples of this land This book is a powerful agent for change in how we can approach healing trauma from deeply flawed systems, to move forward and create new possibilities for fairer systems that work for all. Deeply moving in its honesty, respect and humility, presenced in an extensive lived experience, with an open-mind, an open-heart, and a sense of humour, it powerfully offers a blueprint of practicality, simplicity and proven results as a way of walking and working together to heal all peoples of this land.
    Elizabeth Elliss, Transformational Leader, Author, Australia
  • 100% Read this Book This book is amazing and so is the author! I would 100% recommend reading this book.
    Kirsten Zenow, Young Australian who knows change is needed.
  • Useful non-First Nations Workforce Guide This book provides the author's lived experience learning journey working in the First Nations health space in a number of roles and states in Australia. It will be most useful to the non-First Nations workforce as a guide on the benefits of working in collaboration with First Nations people when creating programs and learning pathways to meet the needs of the First Nations workforce and students. Having known Cindy both as a friend and as her mentor, I have witnessed firsthand someone who truly understands what Cultural Humility is and the respect she has for First Nations people and their culture.
    Michelle Elwell, Central Arrernte, English and Irish descent, Senior Research Co-ordinator, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.
  • DELVE into the remedy to heal a nation and humanity This book is an accessible manual to navigate change and make a difference in these deeply divided times. After years of experiencing frustration in broken systems and witnessing the harm it was doing to First Nations students and colleagues, Mathers awakens to rebellious innovation to make meaningful change. Through empathy, compassion and healing her own personal and ancestral wounds she leads us through the DELVE Formula which supports the vision for a collaborative, energized humanity to emerge. A book for our times, with prompts, journalling and conversation prompts to build meaningful community with Cultural Humility. This is a must read for future changemakers.
    Liisa Korpela, Teacher, Transformational Leader and Coach, Oregon USA.
  • Bringing Cultures and Humanity Together Again How often have you wondered, "What could one person do to heal racism and unite cultures?" Many of us ask this question of ourselves but take no action. This book inspires hope and could make a difference for you and our world.Cindy has devoted 25 years to learning to work with deep respect and celebration for her homeland of Australia and its First Nations People.In her book, you will discover why ancestral healing is so important and how it affects your own life today. The author shows you how to have an open mind that will transform your life by helping you become a deep listener with an open heart and even more presence.When you take the time to practice cultural humility, you realize what you don't know and you can ask for help. You are opening new ways for "different" people to become one.If you truly want to celebrate other cultures, know that respect needs to be earned and it takes time, and there is work involved. First, work on yourself to release unconscious conditioning and bias that can stop you from realizing your potential.After reading this book, you will understand how to hold a space of love for everyone you meet and create harmony in your chosen community. Is there anything more valuable than that?
    Cathy Lee Taylor is an Author, Podcaster, and Life coach in the USA. https://CathyLeeTaylor.com

  • This book is a triumph for us all! Cindy Mather's book, DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility: How Respect and Deep Listening Can Heal A Nation is a Triumph for us all! Her 5-step simple, yet profound DELVE system provides a way for the First Nations People of Australia to be honored, respected, and invited to be collaborators in utilizing education and health programs for the healing, success, and benefit of their own people. This book is a legacy of her 25 year journey into deep healing for herself and the First Nations People of her beloved Australia. I feel this straight forward book and formula could be utilized successfully in other countries and situations where progress and solutions are at an impasse. Thank you for writing this book!
    Karoleen Fober, Intuitive Business and Life Coach and Author of Opening to Divine Intervention: Expand and Strengthen Your Intuitive Abilities and Spiritual Connection, 2023.
  • Critically IMPORTANT read for ALL Australians! DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility: How Respect and Deep Listening Can Heal A Nation is a beautiful read. Cindy's way of writing dances lightly and with ease through critically important but frequently silenced issues. What Cindy is sharing and talking about and what Cindy is inviting people to notice is also a deep place within ourselves. How can we move forward without acknowledging the entirety of what brought us, each and everyone of us, to here. All Australians, to call ourselves Australians, need to have the curiosity and the courage to engage in the conversations that need to be had. Cindy bravely and powerfully models a way we can do this.
    Bronwen Eberhard, Educator, Narrative Coach, Listening for Truth Facilitator, Co-founder of Save the Nullarbor.
  • A Dose of Real Cultural Humility - A MUST read DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility: How Respect and Deep Listening Can Heal A Nation by Cindy Mathers is a book that can be used in many countries. Through the DELVE system, she guides people in a step-by-step process leading them greater understanding of why it is important to honor and respect all people. This book culminates her 25-year journey working with the First Nations People in Australia. Cindy has put her heart and soul into making the world a better place through this much-needed book. Cindy, thank you for your bravery to get this important work out into the world!
    Chequita McCullough is of African American descent, Life Strategist Coach, Corporate Leader, Motivational Speaker, and Author. Virginia USA.
  • Message from a Mentor Cindy Mathers is an amazingly knowledgeable and culturally sensitive person. As a professional Aboriginal woman, it has been refreshing and encouraging to work alongside a non-Aboriginal person with such a passion for offering community-informed opportunities. She recognizes barriers which Aboriginal people may face in all areas, but particularly in education. Cindy is able to create and facilitate culturally secure training, workshops and events, with a deep understanding of trauma affected learning. Cindy is never scared to think outside the box and provides an innovative approach to the development of resources. She always provides full support and goes above and beyond expectation, working within each person’s own ability levels to ensure best outcomes. Cindy builds and sustains respectful and equitable relationships, always maintaining collaboration with local Aboriginal community. This book is a tool I can use in my workplace for non-Aboriginal people who might like to be allies and are not sure how to do that!
    Sharon Kingaby, Mentor and Aboriginal Regional Development Officer, Contributing Author in Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, 2018.
  • Valuable lessons learned in ‘one sitting’! After reading DELVE-ing into Cultural Humility by Cindy Anne Mathers I am hopeful of a world where we can learn from the oldest surviving culture in the world. As an educator who struggled to find the resources to help my students understand the communication styles needed to live and work alongside the First Australians, I celebrate the authors tenacity to produce a roadmap that is easy to follow with the DELVE formula. Storytelling, deep listening and communication through connecting on country are skills that can be passed on and heal a nation. Valuable lessons learned in ‘one sitting’. This book is a must read for everyone I can think of and I have ordered multiple copies for Christmas gifts for my family and friends.
    Laura Bailey, Clinical Nurse Educator and Health Practitioner in Australia.
  • An excellent practical guide that helps raise awareness and put language to unconscious bias This book is a well-written excellent reference for all those times when we had a felt sense when we were in relation with others, but were unable to understand or express what or why. Through the author's journey we have the opportunity to look through 'new eyes' at her various experiences and through the DELVE formula look under the hood of our unconscious biases and reflect in a way that equips us with language and skills to empower us with confidence to take that next step and have those difficult conversations with flow, ease and grace.... A unique tool especially for these times and an investment in our humanity.
    Benaifer Patell, Director Zest2Change Limited, Transformational Leader, UK.
  • A Transformative Approach in the Chaotic World Based on her own personal healing as well as her work and experiences with First Nations people in Australia, Cindy Mather’s DELVE Formula gives hope for creating new possibilities to honor the people, heal her country and the world. A book written from the heart, she shares her own journey and how change of perception can transform the world. A powerful book.
    Nita Goyal, Transformational Leader, Author of Seduction of the mind: A Pilgrimage of Spirit, USA.
  • I highly recommend this book and will use it in my work practice. This book will transform the way you work with Indigenous groups and individuals. The author shares her transformational approach and has developed tools to create a tried and tested practical guide for anyone to pick up and use. I will use this valuable resource to strengthen my work practice.
    Wendy Bell, Senior AOD and Dual Diagnosis Counsellor in Melbourne Australia.
  • Thank you Cindy Reading this book has enhanced my understanding in working and living in a remote area. It's not only a guide, it is insightful and your life work and passion shine through, thank you !
    Natalie Turpin, Program Manager Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation Broome, WA.