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The Dreaming Path

Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life

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The Dreaming Path

By: Paul Callaghan
Narrated by: Paul Callaghan, Greg Fryer
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Short-listed, ABIA Awards, 2023

The ancient wisdom in this audiobook will give you tips, practises, inspiration and motivation that can enable you to achieve a state of mind, body and spirit wellness you didn't think possible.

Tired of going around in circles? It’s time to reconnect with your story and make it the best story possible.

The Dreaming Path ensures our life journey is one of fulfilment. The path has always been there, but in the modern world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us—family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career—that it can be hard to remember what’s most important: you.

Through conversations, exercises, dreamtime stories and key messages, Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon will share knowledge that reveals the power of Aboriginal spirituality as a profound source of contentment and wellbeing for anyone willing to listen. This ancient wisdom is just as relevant today as it ever was.

The tools provided in this audiobook will give you tips, practises, inspiration and motivation that can enable you to achieve a state of mind, body and spirit wellness you didn’t think possible. Are you ready to connect with the Dreaming Path—to heal, renew and live a good story? It all starts with the first step.

2023, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Small Publishers' Adult, Winner

©2022 Paul Callaghan. First published by Pantera Press (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Education Personal Development Personal Success Inspiring Wisdom

Critic Reviews

"This book is a must for every family home, with so many tips, tools and stories that will relate to everyone who reads. It’s a peek inside the life of the 'old ways', which have the potential to unite a country." (Joe Williams, advocate and author of Defying the Enemy Within)

"The insights about leadership are powerful and timely. This should be required reading for anyone entering a leadership position in any walk of life." (Dr Bruce Perry, co-author with Oprah Winfrey of the number one New York Times best seller What Happened to You?)

"Beautiful storytelling. Every Australian needs to read this book." (Hugh van Cuylenburg, author of The Resilience Project)
All stars
Most relevant  
Expansive in thought and knowledge. Loved every minute. The exercises at the end of every chapter are ones I’ll go back to again and again

Truth, an unveiling like no other.

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To me the book served as a collection of valuable principles and insights about the communities connection and family values that we have been slowly forgeting in the modern societies.
I wish this book reachs the leaders that make changes and laws in our plant. To address decision making with bigger purposes for our mother earth.

Principles oriented and valuable sharing

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Really amazing listen. The wisdom and spirit of culture flows from every word. There is something to be learnt for everyone.
The experience of this audiobook would be enhanced by a pdf to accompany it to detail the diagrams and exercises or something even reference where each exercise is.

Unforgettable

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The more I listen to story, the more I learn and respect our First Nations People and culture

Enlightening

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Wisdom from men who have lived diverse lives with experience of both traditional/reawakened First Nations culture and business and public service leadership/management roles. They have lived full lives that have involved both crisis and empowerment, experiencing the failures of our contemporary corporate system to support the psychological health of people within it, contrasted with the wise support offered by traditional Australian Aboriginal cultural practices and structures - the Law/Lore of this land. Each chapter begins with a wonderful teaching story that I learned more from than a lot of the discussion afterwards.

Some of the discussion after the stories is given a structure that sometimes felt to me a bit like a lesson at a Trade School or TAFE (where Paul Callaghan taught and worked in leadership roles for many years), which will work for some listeners but perhaps not others. But apart from that, I can recommend this book for its wise self-help advice brought by men who are grounded in real life experience and their connection to the land and a wise, grounded culture that is over 60,000 years old.

Wisdom

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I read this book after listening to the authors story on a Crappy to Happy podcast and it was inspiring. As a white Australian it can be difficult to understand how to engage with Aboriginal Culture and Wisdom and this book lays athe foundation and welcome to all readers no matter their culture. Focusing on the core values and lessons that all Australians and the world can take from ancient Aboriginal Wisdom. I keep recommending this book to friends, family and work colleagues. Thank you for sharing your dreaming with us.

Inspiring

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I absolutely loved learning more of Aboriginal culture. My daughter introduced me to your book. She is a Waluwara woman, who is exploring her Aboriginal heritage.
Thankyou

Teachings

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Captures the many and varied stories and perspectives of our First Nations peoples through Paul’s life journey. Highly recommend.

First Nations perspectives bought to life through story

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Deadly explanation what else do I need to say, it is a great book about the original occupants of this land

Deadly

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I loved it so much that I bought the hard copy halfway through listening. Beautifully written and essential lessons I will remember forever.

Essential learning for humans.

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