My journey
My Story — how My Re(!Leaf was born
Guided by my Atmosphere, shaped by my Cloud, grown from my Tree.
My name is Joshua Moody, I am an Aboriginal Man of Australia, Descendant of one of the worlds most Oldest Living Cultures - I'm of the Wiradjuri Tribe of the Koori People, born on Mother's Country in Narromine New South Wales - I'm also of the Balladong Tribe of the Noongar People, living close to Father's Country Toodyay Western Australia. My journey didn't begin with a program or a plan — it began with Guidance from my Atmosphere, my belief system, the quiet voice that kept nudging me forward even when I didn't know where I was heading.
That guidance led me to work for Noongar Mia Mia as a Homelessness Case Worker. Every day I walked alongside our mob who were navigating some of the hardest systems in the world — housing, justice, addictions, poverty, trauma, rejection, and generational hurt. I saw the reality of what our people face, not in theory, but in real time, in real lives, in real pain.
Around that same moment, my Uncle Tom asked me if I could train Red Dust Healing in WA for him. I didn't know it then, but that request was the beginning of something much bigger.
For four years I worked in this space — homelessness, healing, cultural practice, trauma, systems, families, cycles. And during those years, something started happening inside me.
The Cloud
Just like a Cloud, I found myself absorbing my environment.
- ◦I absorbed the teachings of Red Dust Healing.
- ◦I absorbed the stories of our people.
- ◦I absorbed the reality of the systems that impact Aboriginal lives.
- ◦I absorbed the patterns, the pain, the strength, the resilience.
- ◦I absorbed the truth of what our mob carry every day.
I was relating, understanding, empathising, observing, learning, feeling.
And then — my Cloud got full.
When a Cloud gets full, it rains.
All that knowledge, all that cultural wisdom, all that lived experience, all that understanding… it rained down onto my Tree — my Choices.
And from that rain, from that Cloud, from that Tree… My Re(!Leaf was the fruit it produced.
- It wasn't created in a meeting room.
- It wasn't designed in a workshop.
- It wasn't built from theory.
It grew naturally — from culture, from community, from lived experience, from healing, from systems, from spirit, from the land, from the water, from the air, from the atmosphere that guided me.
What it is
My Re(!Leaf is not just a program.
It's not just a workbook.
It's not just a set of tools.
- It is the fruit of everything I absorbed.
- It is the reflection of everything I witnessed.
- It is the response to everything our mob go through.
- It is the pathway back to Dreaming, Songlines, Boya Art, Dance.
- It is the rise above the Systems of the World.
- It is the healing of rejection.
- It is the spark of fire.
- It is the smoke that lifts us higher.
- It is the leaf that protects us.
- It is the wind that guides us.
- It is the tree that grows us.
- It is the fruit that feeds us.
This is my story. This is where My Re(!Leaf came from. This is how the Visual Holistic Tools were born.
And now — they're here for you.