Cultural Lessons for Healing

Joseph Ojibway

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Goals of today’s speech

Chi Miigwetch to Brenda Ojibway...this speech is thanks to her 21 years of service in the United States Army

Gratitude

Exercise

Spirtuality of the Colonizer vs. Traditional Beliefs

Anishinaabemowin acknowledges the spiritual aspect of life inherently in the language

Spirituality and the Industrial Health Complex

Dr. Roland Griffith. Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance. 2006.

The Science behind Spirituality

Ha'a Keaulana reminds us to stay strong among the emotional waves of life

Music and our emotions

Mind Altering Treatment Options

Healing the Body

Baaga’adowewin in slow motion

“Enculturation to be the most influential protective factor in fostering resilience in American Indian adolescents.” - Joseph Gone, Director of Harvard’s Native American Program

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Actionable steps towards providing holistic care

1.Adding traditional healers as full-time staff and holding regular meetings among PCP’s, psych providers, traditional healers and counselors to discuss community needs and people facing challenging circumstances.

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2.Start Baaga’adowewin program in each Tribal community and offer weekly games and intertribal tournaments.

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3.Start social media educational campaign for youth to discuss holistic care/wellness concepts based on the medicine wheel (building off concepts discussed in The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well by Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins and themes discussed in All my Relations Podcast

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Questions?

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Contact me at: www.recreating-wellness.com

recreatingwellness24@gmail.com

Youtube: @Recreating-Wellness

TikTok: recreatingwellness24

Baldwin J.A., Eaves E.R., Brown B.G., Elwell K., Williamson H.J. (2020) The Behavioral Health of American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Risk and Resiliency. In: Levin B., Hanson A. (eds) Foundations of Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18435-3_10

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Gone, J. P., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Advancing Indigenous Mental Health Research: Ethical, conceptual and methodological challenges. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(2), 235–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461520923151

Henson, M., Sabo, S., Trujillo, A., & Teufel-Shone, N. (2017). Identifying Protective Factors to Promote Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents: A Literature Review. The journal of Primary Prevention, 38(1-2), 5–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-016-0455-2

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Kutcher, S., Bagnell, A., & Wei, Y. (2015). Mental health literacy in secondary schools: a Canadian approach. Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 24(2), 233–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2014.11.007

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Shaw, J. L., Beans, J. A., Comtois, K. A., & Hiratsuka, V. Y. (2019). Lived Experiences of Suicide Risk and Resilience among Alaska Native and American Indian People. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(20), 3953. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203953

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