Ways of Wellness
Talking with someone you trust is one healthy way to support what?
Mental Wellness
These community leaders often share teachings, stories, and guidance.
What is an Elder
This term describes gatherings that include drumming, singing, and dancing.
What is a Pow Wow
IMW stands for what?
Indigenous Mental Wellness
This plant is often used in many communities for smudging and cleansing.
What is Sage
This type of breathing involves longer exhales to calm the nervous system.
What is box breathing or controlled breathing?
This form of teaching uses stories to pass down morals and life lessons.
What is storytelling/coyote stories?
This is the practice of learning from and spending meaningful time with the land.
What is land-based learning?
Our team works closely with which clinical network focused on mental health and substance use?
What is Mental Health & Substance Use Clinical Network?
Spending time outside in forests, lakes, and mountains is often called connecting with what?
What is Nature / Land / Source
Name one traditional Indigenous activity that supports mental wellness through connection to land.
What is berry picking? / What is fishing? / What is being on the land? What is activity on the land?
Indigenous cultures often use this circular symbol to represent balance and cycles.
What is a Circle
Foods such as salmon, bison, or berries are part of this type of wellness.
What is cultural/traditional food?
A key role of the IMW team is building relationships with Indigenous communities and what?
What is Partners?
Drumming is often described as representing the heartbeat of what?
What is 'motherearth'?
A key strength in many Indigenous communities is strong what networks?
What is Family/Community support
A traditional practice of cleansing with smoke from medicines like sage, cedar, or sweetgrass.
What is smudging?
The red dress has become a national symbol raising awareness for this important issue.
What is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & 2-Spirit people (MMIWG2STQ)?
Cultural safety in healthcare means services are respectful and responsive to what?
What is Indigenous Cultures and Experiences
This movement emphasizes reclaiming culture, language, and identity as part of healing.
What is cultural revitalization?
Describe balance between the self, community, land, and spirit. What is this balance often called?
What is a Medicine Wheel?
This knowledge system understands that all beings—plants, animals, water, and people—carry spirit and deserve respect.
What is relational worldview / animacy teaching?
Songs, dances, and cultural practices often come with specific rights or responsibilities. (hint starts with a 'P')
What are (cultural) protocols?
A key guiding approach in Indigenous partnership work is relationship before what?
(what is process, what is task, what is before anything)
Intergenerational resilience describes the strengths passed down despite trauma. What is an example?
What is language survival, continued ceremony, land stewardship, or family teachings?