This audio provides a Mindful-Presense Practice session by Heather Ferris, as part of the Present-Moment Awareness curriculum on the HEALhealthcare.ca website (link to curriculum).

Now is a time of great change and hardship in the world particularly for those who are suffering disease, displacement, unkindness. Many people have experienced bias through colonization and other systems of domination and oppression. Levels of stress and anxiety are high. We are experiencing shortages of personnel within every segment of our health system. The needs of the task (including prioritizing medication) precede the best interests of the person in many cases. This leads to more stress for caregivers, families, patients and health employees. MINDFULNESS brings us into the present moment, opening our connection to ourselves and others, relieving stress.

Come back to this audio as needed to practice mindful presence.

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca

This video will provide healthcare providers with an understanding of why so many of our people - People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) - are unable to overcome addiction. We will share our journey together through two pandemics (COVID and The Overdose Crisis) and how we supported each other through recovery and through active addiction. Our hope is that people can better understand the multiple layers of trauma that PWUD experience, along with the importance and benefits of reviving the Indigenous culture for land based healing.

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This video is part of the Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning (H.E.A.L.) project. H.E.A.L. Healthcare invites you to explore ways we have come to be in this world through arts-based learning tools providing an opportunity to deepen understandings about cultural humility, cultural competency, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism.

View the entire H.E.A.L. Healthcare Learning Resource library at HEALhealthcare.ca

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 9. In this final episode, guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, summarizes her healing journey with host Devanee Cardinal. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

The Ghost Pipe Podcast is a series of conversations exploring the experiences of both professionals and clients who have encountered colonial bias within the field of psychology. Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, shares her story of unmet mental health needs and how she found healing within an Indigenous context.

Though the need for mental health support is high, the treatment offered is often not a good fit for Indigenous people. The “mismatch” between the mental health needs of an Indigenous person and what is generally offered in counselling and therapy is illuminated by the stories of Indigenous individuals. The conversations shared in The Ghost Pipe Podcast provide a place to hear these stories, highlight existing bias in the field of psychology, and strengthen the call to decolonize mental health care.

This podcast series is part of the H.E.A.L. Healthcare project.

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The learning modules provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca