Description
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on October 30, 2024 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until November 30, 2024. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 5 – 7 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on October 29, 2024.
This session will focus on the benefits of narrative-based approaches in addressing mind, body, spirit, and emotion so that trauma survivors can make meaning of their experiences, change their self-concept, and restore relationships with other people and the world. During this session, we will also consider the ways in which colonial systems, institutions, and practices can better meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. We will examine Indigenous frameworks for understanding health, wellness, and healing and will also consider the medicine circle as a model for understanding trauma and healing.
Indigenous science and medicine connects the self to the external world within a network of kinship relationships. Complex trauma distorts these relationships and destroys the survivor’s sense of self. Intergenerational trauma extends these patterns across time and space in communities and family systems. By decolonizing their practice, mental health professionals are better able to meet the needs of Indigenous clients by providing culturally sensitive care.