Creating a Safe and Brave Spaces
- 10 tips for creating a safe space | IofC
- Safe Space Checklist
- Creating a Safe Space: Psychological Safety of Healthcare Workers (Peer to Peer Support and Other Support Models)
- Creating Safe Spaces
- “Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation.” (2019)
Connection to Land
Food Sovereignty, Gardening, and Food Programs- Canada | Improving First Nation Nutrition | Food Security Programs
- Indigenous Foodways — Nourish Health
- Creating space for Indigenous culture through food programs
- Beyond the Three Sisters Garden: Indigenous Communities and Public Gardens in Dialogue
- Native Foods Nursery | Buy native plants that you can eat!
- 15 Wild Plants You Can Eat • Outdoor Canada
- Native Plants for Edible Landscaping
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI2gnTZh0-I&t=11s (powwow dancing)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eos-Xx-TNvQ (N7 fitness inspiration
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-D7ncAC9rQ (Simple 10 min workout)
- https://www.wellforculture.com/
Connection to Land Chapter Resources
Traditional Medicines- Article Indigenous Peoples’ Medicine in Canada
- The Four Sacred Medicines – Indigenous Website
- First Nations Traditional Plants and Uses
- First Nations Perspective on Health and Wellness
- Incorporating the Medicine Wheel in the Treatment of Aboriginal Communities: Brad Lafortune
- The Medicine Wheel and the Four Directions – Medicine Ways: Traditional Healers and Healing – Healing Ways – Exhibition – Native Voices
- The Medicine Wheel:
- Aboriginal traditional healing
- Traditional Healing and Wellness
- What is Land-Based Treatment and Healing
Connection to Self
Knowing My Response-Abilities- 8 Steps To Help You Answer The Question “What Am I Good At?” – Zippia
- Responsibility – Response-ability – ability to respond and react the way you want
- Ways of knowing for ‘response-ability’
- Self-Talk: Why It Matters
- How to Change the Way You Talk to Yourself
- How to Change How You Talk to (and See) Yourself
- Motivation & Goals What is Positive Self-Talk? (Incl. Examples).
- Positive Self-Talk: Benefits and Techniques
- Mayo Mindfulness: Overcoming negative self-talk – Mayo Clinic News Network
- Power Of Words – How Words Affect Our Lives & Behavior
- Effect of Daily Affirmations (Positive thoughts) on Subconscious Mind, Health and Happiness – Wholesome Ayurveda
- Positive Affirmations (apuzzledmind.com)
- Journaling tips 17 Journaling Tips For Beginners (And How To Start)
- Journaling prompts 75 Journaling Prompts for Your Best Life — The Bliss Bean
- Self-care playlist How To Create A Self-Care Playlist
- Drawing prompts 100 Silly Drawing Prompts to Engage Your Students
- Art prompts ArtPrompts | A Prompt Generator for Artists
- Learning guitar Ultimate Guitar Tabs
- Anxiety Disorders and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: The Current State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
- Drawing for Anxiety: Benefits, Easy Exercises, & More.
- 12 Effects of Anxiety on the Body
- Aboriginal Mental Health: The statistical reality | Here to Help
- Yoga With Adriene https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKE7WVJfvaHW5q283SxchA
- https://www.healthline.com/health/why-does-stretching-feel-good#safety-tips
- https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/waking-up-stretching
- Worksheet: Setting Boundaries
- Dealing with Difficult Family Members: Don’t Justify, Argue, Defend, or Explain
- Effective Communication – HelpGuide.org
- Ode’ imin, Ceremony and Law |
- Article Vision Quest
- Everyday Wellness – Cedar
- How to make cedar tea
- Tobacco Offering Protocol – Centre for Indigenous Initiatives
Connecting to Self – Chapter Resources
How to Create Healthy Boundaries- Setting Emotional Boundaries in Relationships
- Positive CBT How to Set Healthy Boundaries: 10 Examples + PDF Worksheets
- The Guide to Strong Relationship Boundaries
- Building healthy relationships | healthdirect
- 13 proven ways to maintain a healthy relationship with Tony
- Read: Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship
- Sexual Health Ontario | your source for sexual health information
- Sexual Health Resources
- Resources
- Sexual & Reproductive Health Resources For Adolescents and Young Adults – SAHM
- The Hidden Messages in Water— Masaru Emoto (add PDF to resources)
- Power Of Words – How Words Affect Our Lives & Behavior
Connection to Community
Communal Challenge/Repair Activity- Community repair: a pop-up alternative to the throwaway society
- 60 Ways to Better Your Community: Ideas for Community Service Projects
- 101 small ways you can improve your city
- 100 ways make a difference in your community through kindness
- Sharing Circles – Pass The Feather
- Learning from Indigenous Peoples – Sharing Circles | Do Justice
- Talking Circle: Fact Sheet – Talking Together
- Talking Circles Overview from the First Nations Pedagogy Online Project
- About Sharing Circles
- Ceremonies and Socials – Our Stories
- Symbolism and Tradition
- Potlatch
- Ceremonial Spaces
- Indigenous Ceremonies (7 Most Common Native American Ceremonies & Rituals)
- Article Sweat Lodge
- Article History of Powwows
- How Indigenous communities are holding Round Dances virtually
Connection to Community Chapter Resources
Lateral Kindness Declaration- Lateral Kindness
- https://fnhda.ca/wp-content/uploads/FNHDA-Lateral-Kindness-Gram.pdf
- Practise Lateral Kindness to Help Reduce Stigma and Fear of COVID-19
- Let’s use Lateral Kindness to “lift each other up”
- 2020: The Power of Communal Healing — Listen First Project
- Communal Healing: An Interview with Camesha Jones
- Addressing the Healing of Aboriginal Adults and Families within a Community-owned College Model
- A Year Long Wellness Approach
- Understanding the Healing Power of Storytelling
- Storytelling in Native American Cultures
- The Power of Indigenous Storytelling
- The Effect of Colonization on First Nations
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000023?journalCode=yjrl20
- Aboriginal Women and Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK):
- Gender Identities – Our Stories
- Indigenous Women: A Gender Perspective
- Marginalization of Aboriginal women – Indigenous Foundations
- Healthy Relationships (nativewellness.com)
- Healthy Youth Dating Relationships – Canadian Red Cross
- Read: Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship
- How to build a healthy romantic relationship: 5 tips
- Quizzes – The 5 Love Languages®
- What Are the Five Love Languages?
- Healthy Friendships and Relationships (ct.gov)
Connection to Spirituality
Naming Ceremony- What having a naming ceremony for my kids meant to me
- Claiming a Name | This is a Canadian Issue: Reflecting on TRC Calls to Action
- Naming Ceremony
- When A Child Is Given An Anishinaabe Name
- How to Build a Teepee | The Pioneers
- How to Erect a Tipi
- How to set up a canvas tipi and liner
- Making a Wigwam
- Building a Wigwam (Time Lapse)
- Wigwam Building
- Building a Wigwam with Natural Materials | Bushcraft Shelter (PART 1)
- Wigwams – Basic Wigwam Construction
- How to Build an Igloo
- How to Build an Igloo
- Building a Native American Plank House
- Chinookan Plank Houses – Native American Domestic Architecture & Culture
- Ribbon Skirt Tutorial With Billie Jo Kruger
- Simple AF RIBBON SHIRT Tutorial Part 1: Measuring and Pattern Drafting
- Simple AF RIBBON SHIRT Tutorial Part 2: Cutting Fabric and Sewing
- Sacred Items and Bundles – Indigenous Website
- Cultural ignorance at heart of skirt-shaming controversy.
- Beads: Symbols of Indigenous Cultural Resilience and Value
- Tribal Spirit Hand Drum Kits
- Medicine Bags or Bundles – Legends of America
- An Anishinaabe creation story – Pukaskwa National Park
- The Creation Story – Turtle Island For the Ojibway/Anishinabe people, Long ago, after the Great Mystery, or Kitchi-Manitou, f
- The Creation Story
- Haudenosaunee Creation Story
- Raven: A Haida Creation Story
- Elder Bill Reid: The Haida Creation Story
- Oneida Creation Story Oneida Sign Language 2017
- The Mohawk Story of Creation | Lee Claremont | TEDxPenticton
- Grandmother : Creation Story | Opening to the World | Culture
- The Legend of Weesakayjack – First Nation Legend – How North America came to be – Canada
- Creation Stories – The Origins of Culture
- Cree Creation Story
- Métis—Stories of Long Ago – Voices of Métis – Our Voices, Our Stories: – Library and Archives Canada
- The Creation Story – Historical and Contemporary Realities: Movement Towards Reconciliation
- Algonquin Creation Myth – An Algonquin Legend
- The Creation of the World | Conseil Tribal
- Mi’kmaq Creation Story
- Blackfoot Creation Myth – Legends of America
- Blackfoot Creation and Origin Myths
- Creation Story (Iroquois/Haudenosaunee) – American Literature I: An Anthology of Texts From Early America Through the Civil War
- Onondaga Creation Story
- The Creation Story – Historical and Contemporary Realities: Movement Towards Reconciliation.
- The Inuit Creation Myth
- Sedna, by Heather Dale – the Inuit creation myth retold in American Sign Language
- Inuit Creation
- A Dakota Creation Story
- Tlingit Creation Story (Raven)
- Creation Myths — Iroquois Creation Myth
Connection to Spirituality – Chapter Resources
Learning About Kinship, Identity, Nationship, and Clanship- Kinship ~ Walking Together
- Traditional Indigenous Kinship Practices at Home: Being Child-Centered During the Pandemic
- Reviving Indigenous Kinship — Freedom Rising
- What is Indigenous Identity?
- Clans – Indigenous Website
- Article Clan (Indigenous Peoples in Canada)
- Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
- Governance
- Researching for LGBTQ Health
- OACAS Library Guides: LGBTQ2S+ identities and child welfare: Two-Spirit identities
- Two Spirit and LGBTQ Idenitites: Today and Centuries Ago – HRC
- An Introduction to the Health of Two-Spirit People: Historical, contemporary and emergent issues
- Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation
- What is Aboriginal spirituality?
- WRC-2017: (2/9) Indigenous Spirituality and Canadian Values
- Article Religion and Spirituality of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
- What is spirituality
- What is Spirituality?
- The Mental Health Benefits of Religion & Spirituality
- What is spirituality? Is it different from religion? What if I don’t go to church or belong to a faith community?
- What is Spirituality
- Coping – Faith and Spirituality
- The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Subjective Well-Being of Individuals With Different Religious Status
Life Promotion Toolkit – Resource Chapter
Community Contacts and Resource Sheets- Health Services
- Youth and Adult Support Lines
- Youth funding
- How to create a resource list for your community?
- Writing a letter
- Budgeting Worksheet
- Brainstorming Activity Worksheet
- Personal Self-Care and Self-ReflectionTemplate
- Event Organization Checklist (put into resource document)
- Resume template
- Cover letter template
- Goal Setting
- How to apply for school funding template
- Applying to scholarships template
- The Late Elder Don Cardinal, sharing at the 2nd Annual Igniting the Fire Gathering (2007) – Part 1 (Don Cardinal Talk)
- Onaubinisay at the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Friendship Centre Resources
- Friendship Centres — The National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC)
- Find a Friendship Centre – OFIFC
- Aboriginal Organizations in New Brunswick
- BCAAFC – Working together for a brighter future
- Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres (MAC) | Indigenous Friendship Centres of Manitoba
- Guide to Indigenous Organizations and Servicea in Alberta