Lukas Williams, M.A. IH., is a national motivational speaker, entrepreneur, Indigenous health advocate, educator and facilitator with 15 years’ experience in the field of social emotional and cultural well-being.

Lukas is the recipient of the Northern Territory Government Aboriginal Medical Services Remote Worker of the Year Award in 2018, acknowledging his successful work with men’s healing circles in remote communities. This work and success led Lukas to establish his own organisational consultancy and private practice, Gan’na Healing™. Lukas is renowned and respected for his approach to trauma healing for Indigenous people, creating a 7-step practice model that has been utilised in over 25 communities and community services across Australia.

Lukas understands that our personal and professional lives are interconnected and to become a leader that others want to follow, is to have authenticity, integrity and to know yourself on a deep level. This is what makes Lukas a powerful speaker and leader in inspirational and motivational speaking. His own personal journey, coupled with his professional development, led him to acquiring his Masters in Indigenous Health in 2018.

Lukas is a proud Bundjalung man from the Minyangbal people in Tweed Heads NSW. Lukas is also proud to have Native American, Scottish, English and Italian heritage. 

LW'S JOURNEY

Lukas’ journey wasn’t an easy one. Growing up in Northern NSW, Lukas’s mother lived with the far-reaching effects of intergenerational trauma due to her mother’s forced removal from her Aboriginal parents in the 1930s. Lukas’s father was a high-end crime figure in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Lukas grew up surrounded by violence. He experienced developmental trauma, abuse and neglect, living in boys’ homes and state care institutions. Lukas was abandoned by his mother, and experienced violence at the hands of his father. A high school dropout, Lukas went on to years of substance use, addiction and crime, following in the footsteps of his father. Lukas spent 8 years incarcerated in prison for multiple misdemeanors including armed robbery. Lukas followed the same path as his father until 2012, when he made a decision to turn his life around.

He wanted to make a difference.
He wanted to heal.
He wanted to help heal others.

Lukas looked into the eyes of his loved ones and saw the hurt, pain and fear from the actions of his behaviours. Lukas reached a point that his own family had to ask him to leave their homes.
This is when he realised that he needed to do the work, the internal work, the work to create love, rather than fear and pain. Lukas knew, despite his childhood experiences, it was his responsibility to clean it up.

He wanted change. 

Lukas went on to complete his Masters of Indigenous Healing, inspired by his grandmother’s experiences as a member of the Stolen Generation in Australia. Undertaking a personal healing and growth journey, Lukas went on to establish Gan’na Healing, a trauma-informed health organization focusing on trauma recovery and practice with Indigenous people throughout remote and rural areas of the Northern Territory and Northern New South Wales. Lukas is now undertaking his PhD in traditional healing and healing circles.

Lukas knows that there is not an individual on the face of the earth that has not experienced trauma, whether it be developmental, single event, vicarious or being passed down intergenerationally. Lukas is an expert in intergenerational healing, and a key message in his speaker engagements is that with intergenerational impacts, there is always intergenerational wisdom.