Groups
Human services at the Group and Team Level
Working with Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Strategies for Helping and Healing
Anishinaabe
100

A number of people drawn together for "a natural and purposeful experience involving... mutual interaction, over a period of time"

What is a group?

100

Teams meet on a regular basis to share information, discuss client care, with each professional contributing unique expertise to a shared plan and engaging in a process of shared decision-making.

What is an interdisciplinary team?
100

A pervasive structural and psychological relationship that is reflected in the dominant institutions, policies, and histories of the occupying powers. (Refers to loss of lands, languages, resources, self-direction, cultural cohesion, and to severe disturbances of cultural ways and values, ways of knowing and being, as well as ways of helping and healing.

What is colonization?

100

A "storied approach," and insists that the answers lie within each and every person who had a problem, suggeting that the "proper role of the external healer is to draw out those answers" 

What is narrative medicine?

100

Living the good life.

What is mino-bimaadiziwin?

200

Use a healing method in which all participants, including the facilitator, are viewed as equal: information, spirituality, and emotionality are shared, a method that is familiar and comforting for some Indigenous participants in Cnaada who have this knowledge of practice.

What are Indigenous Sharing Circles?

200

Discipline-orientated, with all professionals working independently, with clear role defintions, specificed tasks, and hierarchical lines of authority.

What is a multidisciplinary team?

200

Implies that the service tht is given to Indigenous grups will, in fact, meet and address their needs using skills, knowledge, and metods tht are relevant and understanding in an Indigenous cultural context.

What is culturally appropriate?

200

Trauma is personal, collective, and historical.

What is a multi-traumatic context?

200

'Hungry' in Anishinaabemowin.

bakade

300

Involves the demontration of behaviours that insoure and empower others, that transcend one's self interestesm and give others the confidence to achieve higher levels of functioning.

What is tranformational leadership?

300

Use a shared conceptual framework, drawing together discipline-specific theories, concepts, and approached to address a common problem.(Pooling and exchange of interprofessional knowledge and skills across disciplinary boundaries).

What is a transdisciplinary team?

300

The ability of individuals, organizations and systems to respond respectfully and effectively to people of all cultures, backgrounds, races, ethnic backgrounds and religions in a manner that recognizes, affirms and values the cultural differences, similarities, and the worth of individuals, families and communtities, and protects and perserves the dignity of each. 

What is cultural competence?

300

This is used to pray.

What is semhaa or tobacco?

300

Debwewin!

Truth!

400

Competency, compassion, and commitment as the basis for effective group leadership.

What are the three Cs?

400

Refers to disagreements in the team regarding ideas and opinions about the task.

What is task-related conflict?

400

In practice is concerned with improving quality of the environment in which services are delivered and enhancing consumer rights, voices and self-determination.

What is cultural safety?

400

The Seven Gifts or Grandfather Teachings.

What is wisdom, love, resect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth? 

400

See ya later!

Baamaapii!

500

Forming stage, storming stage, norming stage, performing stage, adjourning stage.

What is the sequential stage theories OR what is group development?

500

Describes personality clashes that arise over incompatibe personalities. 

What is relationship conflict?
500

Healing approaches that facilitate release from past trauma and reactivate the power and resilience that had been previously overwhelmed... As personal healing progresses for residential school survivors and subsequent generations, many survivors of the historic trauma are motivated to share their emerging vitality with family, friends, and communties. 

What are Indigenous Ways of Healing?

500

Names membership that are the essential pieces in helping people develop strong cultural identities.

What are ceremonial names (Spirit names) and clan membership? 

500

The four quadrants (list the medicines, directions, and seasons).

East, spring, semhaa; South, summer, cedar; West, fall, sage; North, winter, sweet grass.