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- Title
Going Back to the Roots: Using the Medicine Wheel in the Healing Process.
- Authors
Twigg, Robert C.; Hengen, Thomas
- Abstract
This article describes Building A Nation, a store front program located in the heart of the core neighbourhood (west side) of Saskatoon and its use of the Medicine Wheel in providing a blend of traditional and western support services including supportive therapy to those who come through its doors. This article begins with a discussion of the need for culturally safe and competent counselling programs and how Building A Nation meets that need. Following this the paper discusses the Medicine Wheel and how the Medicine Wheel is used in the Building A Nation program. This article is a step toward completing the recommendation by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation that Building A Nation "provide more clarity about how western and traditional healing methods complement each other or blend together (Aboriginal Healing Foundation 2006, p. 275).
- Subjects
TRADITIONAL medicine; MEDICINE wheels; ALTERNATIVE medicine; SPIRITUAL healing
- Publication
First Peoples Child & Family Review, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
1708-489X
- Publication type
Article