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- Title
- A collection of aboriginal stories and wisdoms for counsellor development
- Contributors
- Judy Letendre (author), Tina Fraser (thesis advisor), John Sherry (thesis advisor), Rheanna Robinson (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- Current mainstream counselling education is Euro-American based; a practice presenting other worldviews, including Indigenous, as sidelines categorized under umbrella terms such as multiculturalism, diversity or cultural competency. This relatively singular lens misses the depth in counselling practices and often sees other cultures incorrectly and leads to misunderstandings or unhelpful, even harmful practices like racism. Aboriginal stories and wisdoms have been gathered to develop Indigenous curriculum that will share equal educational space. For this project, I combined Indigenous principles and protocols and standard qualitative methods to gather and analyze the information. I interviewed Aboriginal people I had known previously from various BC Nations as unique individuals holding wisdom and knowledge passed to them through their Indigenous ancestry, and with various connections to counselling as a client, counsellor, educator and/or course developer. Their collective voice suggests Indigenous knowledge be delivered in an Indigenous way using heart learning and spiritual purpose, teachings seen as absent in in western based counselor education.
- Discipline
- Education-Counselling
- Date added
- 2017-08-30T15:25:59.655Z
- Title
- Experiences of running
- Contributors
- Janine Luggi (author), Antonia Mills (thesis advisor), Blanca Schorcht (thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia College of Arts, Social, and Health Sciences (Degree granting institution), Rheanna Robinson (committee member), Sarah de Leeuw (committee member)
- Abstract
- Running was a traditional role to share messages among the Dakelh communities of northern British Columbia. This role has been lost due to colonialism. The injustices of colonialism have resulted in challenges for Indigenous peoples’ health and well-being. Despite colonialism, the benefits of running for the mind, body, and spirit remain. However, the role that running played in the spiritual health of Indigenous people has remained unexplored. This research is an autoethnographic study about myself and the role of running in my life. I am situating myself within my Dakelh cultural context. I use decolonizing and Indigenous methodologies as a foundation for my research, drawing on my own experiences to express my testimony about transformation. My data includes my personal reflective journals and an interview. I analyzed these two sets of data by situating my experiences within the context of my culture. The themes identified include: 1) Space for self-reflection and responding to the world around me, (2) Relationships and encouragement, (3) My connection to something greater, (4) Honour my life enough to love myself, and (5) Creating space to fully express myself. This research fills a gap in Indigenous specific literature because spiritual health is not widely discussed in the physical activity literature and the running literature connected to Indigenous people. This thesis concludes that running has proven beneficial to me through the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual areas of my health and well-being. Given the role that running has played in my transformation journey, I recommend more research that explores the role of running or other sports as processes for transformation of Indigenous people to explore the understandings of spirit as it relates to holistic health among Indigenous people living in Northern British Columbia.
- Discipline
- First Nations Studies
- Date added
- 2019-04-03T23:00:36.349Z