Kanyini in education and health; if it's safe, they will stay

Love, like culture, lives when it is performed.Love is strong and powerful; you cannot see it, but you sense and feel it".Kanyini, the nurturing care a mother has for their child is the atmosphere needed in education and health care for Indigenous Australian Peoples to thrive.This concept emerged as a synergy when an Indigenist methodology was used to explore the yarns of 18 local Knowledge Givers and Elders in two studies, and then interpreted by Aboriginal researchers.This paper presents the critical reflections of those Aboriginal academics, this paper presents the emergent themes, from these yarns by using their metaphors to give relational context to the narrative.This integrative presentation of findings is a holistic approach that amplifies the informant's wisdom.While Kanyini was the underlying essence, themes that arose were connection and strength, kinship and Country and disconnection and learning. * Kylie Day is a Dharawal woman with a Doctor of Indigenous Philosophy from Gnibi College of Indigenous Australia Peoples, Southern Cross University where she is now a lecturer. She lives and works on Bundjalung country where she was formerly a STEM based secondary school teacher. Darlene Rotumah is an Elder of the Booninybah clan of the Bundjalung nation and descent from the South Sea Islands.