Growing Deadly Brains® is officially live!
Yiliyapinya’s free resources are now live for everyone – a collection of videos and factsheets that bring together cultural knowledge and brain science, made for families, caregivers, educators and the practitioners who walk alongside them.
🎥 A series of short videos + factsheets covering:
Brain Health – What brain health is, what your brain does, and how brain health, mental health and wellbeing connect.
Serve & Return – The everyday back-and-forth moments — a look, a yarn, a smile — that build strong brain pathways.
Brain Development – How brains grow from before birth and across life, and the power of intergenerational strength and story.
Stress & Worries – Positive, tolerable and toxic stress — what the differences are, and what helps us all through.
Your Amazing Brain – Executive function — how the brain focuses, plans, remembers and manages feelings, and how these skills grow.
Place Matters – How Country, community, housing and belonging shape the way brains and bodies develop and heal.
Neuroplasticity & Healing – How brains change, reconnect and heal across life — and why safety, culture and connection are powerful medicine.
Emotional Co-Regulation – Little ones borrow our calm — how caring adults help children’s brains settle, feel safe and learn.
👉 Explore the resources on the Yiliyapinya website – www.yiliyapinya.org.au/growing-deadly-brains-1
Every video is set to original music composed by Waveney Yasso, written especially for Growing Deadly Brains®, adding another layer of culture and heart to the way this knowledge is shared.
🎧 Listen on Spotify
This is knowledge that belongs to everyone. Whether you’re a parent wanting to understand your child’s growing brain, or an educator after culturally grounded resources, this is for you.
Growing Deadly Brains® is a First Nations-led initiative and collaboration between Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation and Queensland Kids Partnership that brings together and honours cultural knowledge and neuro-knowledge.
Next up in Growing Deadly Brains® is a set of Professional Development packages… stay tuned.
