Learning from healing the healers.

The original aim of this research was to provide learning materials for hospital-based health care providers as a step in building a much needed bridge between the worlds of First Nations people in the region served by Prince George Regional Hospital and an institutional culture in the hospital which has often failed to understand them and their needs. I collaborated with Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS), an organization that provides health care services to member First Nations in the district west of Prince George, British Columbia, and CSFS in turn facilitated my collaboration with six elders. ...These elders were members of a program known as Healing the Healers. ...The result of this collaboration was a collection of narratives by five of the Healing the Healers members and my reflections as a health care provider on what I learned from the elders who had become my mentors. --P.ii.