Healing ceremony held to help process the loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby | ABC NEWS

A healing ceremony has been held at Lee Point beach in Darwin to help process the loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby.

Traditional owner Richard Fejo says the ceremony was about healing, and Larrakia elder Christine Fejo-King says it was organised after members of the community contacted them to share their "trauma, grief and sorrow".

"We need to be there to help when our people are traumatised and when healing is necessary," Dr Fejo-King says.

She says the ceremony called on Larrakia ancestors, asking them to help the healing process and bless the people participating in the ceremony.

"We don't care … what your ethnic background is. If you're in grief, if you're in sorrow, this is the ceremony that helps to heal your heart and your soul," Dr Fejo-King says.

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