cultural teachings

Delve into virtual resources that describe community-specific cultural teachings that offer wisdom, encouragement, and broader knowledge of ways of being.

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This 5:12-minute video briefly explores commonly held myths surrounding addiction and uses a classic example of “rat park” to characterise better the realities surrounding substance abuse and addiction.#stress #physical #ratpark #watch #video

Cultural Teachings Video Library
Wabano

This 10-minute video explores the role stress can have in emotion and health. #stress #health #emotion #video #explore

Choosing the Wellness Path with Tom Oleman
REACH Community Health Centre

This 4:42-minute TED presentation explores how stress can negatively impact health. #stress #physicalhealth #video #watch

Stories of the Wendigo and Little People
Fanshawe Institute of Indigenous Learning

This short, 2:32-minute-long animated video briefly describes how stress can affect one's body and mind. #watch #video #stress #health

The Ancestors & Mother Earth with April Bennett
REACH Community Health

Mino Pimatisiwin TEDxMaplesMetSchool
Mary Courchene

Healing Through Story
Annie Belcourt

A Native American Tribe is Using Traditional Culture to Fight Addiction
VICE News

Sweat Lodge Teachings
Cynthia White; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Sacred Medicines
Betty Ross; Winnipeg Health Region

Seven Sacred Laws
Turtle Lodge

Chickadee and Thunderbird
Chantal Gagnon; Ottawa Public Library

Ask an Elder: Winter Solstice
Wilfred Buck; CBC

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This audiobook comprehensively explores how stress impacts the body and mind and offers ways to begin interfacing with one's behaviour, thoughts, and emotions to reduce stress's impact on one's life. #stress #health #listen #audiobook

Pieces
CBC Podcasts

This book is part of the Great Courses series and seeks to describe the effects of stress on your body and brain. #stress #listen #audiobook

Sitting by the Fire
Canada School of Public Service

This 1:29-hour-long podcast features a comprehensive exploration into how stress affects various systems of the body, specifically how it influences the brain and hormonal system and, ultimately, behaviour and emotion. #stress #hormones #health #podcast #listen

All My Relations
Matika Wilbur, Desi Small-Rodriguez & Adrienne Keene

This 38-minute podcast discusses stress as far as the body is concerned and how it can result in negative and/or positive outcomes. #listen #podcast #stress

Culture-centred Indigenous harm Reduction
Addiction Practice Pod

Conversations That Matter
Elder Veronica

Weaving Indigenous Wisdom Traditions: The Grandmothers Speak
National Indigenous Cultural Safety Learning Series

Weaving Indigenous Wisdom Traditions: The Grandfathers Speak
National Indigenous Cultural Safety Learning Series

Weaving Indigenous Wisdom Traditions: Two-Spirit Grandparents Speak
National Indigenous Cultural Safety Learning Series

interact

How to Smudge: Burning Sage
CBC News

This worksheet allows individuals to identify how stress may manifest in their lives and ways to combat and reduce those effects. #stress #interact #worksheet

Connecting with Culture: Growing our Wellness
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

A worksheet that allows users to identify ways in which anxiety may be manifesting in their lives. #worksheet #interact #stress

What is Smudging?
Cecil Isaac; Fanshawe Institute of Indigenous Learning

Seven Grandfather Teachings Yoga Series
Wabano

Four Directions Interactive Teachings
Four Directions Teachings

Growing Up Ojibwe: The Game
Google Play

How To Dance Powwow
Deanne Hupfield

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The Red Road
Spirit Horse Nation

This 3-minute read article explores the effects of stress on the various systems within the body and brain. #stress #body #read

Principles of Mino Bimaadiziwin
Union Star

This 3-minute read article explores how stress has positive and negative effects on the body and features an infographic. #stress #read

Learn How to Smudge
Seven Generations Education Institute

This 3-minute read article examines what stress can do to the body in the short and long term. #read #stress

Benefits of Smudging
Tribal Trade Co

Wholistic Wellness During the COVID-19 Outbreak
The University of British Columbia, School of Kinesiology

The Seven Grandfather Teachings
American Indian Health Service of Chicago

What is the Red Road Curriculum?
West Coast Recovery Centers

Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
Randy Woodley