Of Jiman-Bundjalung (Aboriginal Australian) and Anglo-Celtic - German ancestry, Judy Atkinson’s PhD Trauma Trails – Recreating Song Lines: the transgenerational effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, created the groundwork for the under- and post-graduate courses of trauma studies, while she was head of Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University. Since retiring from academic life Judy, with her daughter Dr Caroline Atkinson, through the organisation We Al-li. have focused on community based educational – healing approaches in skill- development responding to trans- and intergenerational trauma consequent of colonisation. She took this work with her into educational programs in Etna Creek Prison working with Aboriginal men in helping to Recreate their Circle of Wellbeing, and to Alice Springs prison, in support of the women’s need for healing recovery, from the trauma that influenced their offending behaviours.