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Yarning is a relational methodology for transferring Indigenous knowledge. This article describes an emerging research methodology with yarning at its core, which provides respect and honour in a culturally safe environment. Yarning is highly structured, with protocols and principles providing participants control over the process and their stories. The methodology is embedded in a yarning space, which is framed by six protocols and seven principles. The protocols are gift, control, freedom, space, inclusiveness and gender specificity, and the principles are reciprocity, responsibility, relationship, dignity, equality, integrity and self-determination—to protect participants, stories and data. This is ensured through respectful and honouring relationships, responsibility and accountability between participants. The key camps in which the yarning journey is segmented are the Ancestors, protocols, principles, connections, data, analysis, processing and reporting, and the wider community.  \nKeywords  \nyarning, Indigenous knowledge, stories, narratives, Indigenous research methodologies, Aboriginal  \nIntroduction  \nThe foundations of this article have emerged from the Doctoral Thesis of Dr Stuart Barlo, a Yuin man from the far south coast of NSW, with the assistance of Professor Bill Boyd, Dr Alessandro Pelizzon and Dr Shawn Wilson. It describes a methodology developed to undertake Indigenous research that is based on traditional yarning practices and includes defined protocols and principles to establish yarning validity and reliability. While yarning is a generic term often used by Aboriginal Australians as a synonym to conversation, the practice of yarning is a formal strategy of negotiation and information sharing that when used in partnership with Aboriginal participants, allows for the development of culturally safe and impartial research. This process of sharing knowledge, the structures and versions of which are as diverse as the many Aboriginal nations of Australia (Bessarab, 2012; Dean, 2010), is reliant upon relationships, responsibility and accountability between the participants. It is common that articles on yarning or related modes of Indigenous communication describe applications, often in the fields of education, health or healing (e.g., Anuik & Gillies, 2012; Geia et al., 2013; Lin et al., 2016; Walker et al., 2014), and provide good example of the power and essence of yarning. This article, however, takes such descriptions further, by joining other authors such as Walker et al. (2014) and Jackson-Barrett et al. (2015) in identifying the cultural constructs that underlie the method of yarning that, in turn, provide a conceptual framework asserting yarning as a methodological approach to cultural data collection.  \nDean argues that yarning has been a way of sharing, exploring and learning throughout the Dreaming (Dean, 2010) . At its core, yarning relies primarily on storytelling and the use of oral narratives to convey information. Storytelling is, from an Indigenous perspective, an epistemological way of connecting with each other’s experiences regardless of time, place and culture (JacksonBarrett et al., 2015; Martin, 2003, 2008) . Furthermore, storytelling is also used to teach children expectations and proper behaviour (Neidjie, 2002), and “[s]tories formed","cbCaif0BdjCnfSis","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif0BdjCnfSis","pdf",482839,"English","# Introduction\n## Foundations and purpose of yarning methodology\n## Storytelling, learning, and cultural constructs\n# Yarning space structure\n## Protocols and principles\n## Protecting participants, stories, and data\n# Yarning process layers\n## Discrete layers and settings\n## Engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems","[{\"question\":\"What does yarning mean in this methodology?\",\"answer\":\"Yarning is described as a relational Indigenous methodology for transferring knowledge. It is formal information sharing supported by protocols and principles, not just casual conversation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the methodology ensure cultural safety and participant control?\",\"answer\":\"It embeds yarning in a culturally safe yarning space framed by six protocols and seven principles. These support respect, honouring relationships, and participant control over processes and stories.\"},{\"question\":\"Which elements protect participants, stories, and data?\",\"answer\":\"Protection is ensured through reciprocity, responsibility, relationship, dignity, equality, integrity, and self-determination. Respectful relationships and accountability between participants operationalize these principles.\"}]","Yarning as Protected Space - Principles and Protocols - Article | PDF",23]