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Healing Our Spirit Worldwide - The Sixth Gathering
Friday, September 03, 2010 - Friday, September 10, 2010
Hawai'i Convention Center1801 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96815 United States
List of Accepted Abstracts by Track– As of March 20, 2010
NOTE: Only Lead Presenters are listed. Co-presenters are not included in this list.
Conference schedule of presentations to be determined at a later date.
Alcohol, Drugs & Other Addictions
Name: Aiona Anderson
Canada
Affiliation: HeywaynoquHealing Circle for Addictions Society
Title:
Reclaiming our Health from Addictions with Traditional Foods
Brief Description:
The importance of nutrient dense Traditional Food for reclaiming our health from disease and
addictions. With knowledge of traditional and some modern food we can reclaim our health and
be more successful on our journey through recovery.
Name: Amy McLaughlin
New Zealand
Affiliation:
Title:
Addiction Counselling of Maori, the Indigenous People of Aotearoa, New Zealand and the Maori
worldview of Te Ao Maori
Brief Description:
Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, have suffered the longterm impact of
colonisation, and struggle to thrive under an imposed Western paradigm, which has resulted in
high rates of addiction among Maori. The key to healing in the counselling process is the client's
reconnection to and reconciliation with the traditional Te Ao Maori worldview.
Name: Andre McLachlan
New Zealand
Affiliation: Pai Ake Solutions Ltd
Title:
Weaving the realities and responsibilities: Crossing culture and concepts of healing within co-
existing mental health and addictive disorders.
Brief Description:
This presentation reflects on our journey working within mainstream and kaupapa Mäori social and mental health services, with a focus on exploring the meaningful practices inherent within Maori worldviews and concepts.
Name: Anita Makokis
Canada
Affiliation: Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute
Title:
A cultural Aboriginal Tobacco Cessation Training model and Aboriginal Youth Spit Tobacco
Intervention resources.
Brief Description:
Nechi has designed a series of workshops designed to assist, Aboriginal people develop the skills
and knowledge base to address the issue of commercial tobacco misuse among our people.
Participants will gain skills in brief intervention and in taking these skills back and applying to their
home communities begin to reduce the numbers of individuals actively dependent on commercial
tobacco.
Name:Anthony Ah Kit
Australia
Affiliation: FORWAARD - Foundation of Rehabilitation With Alcohol Aboriginal Alcohol Related Difficulties
Title:
Healing Circle of Life
Brief Description:
This presentation will introduce a model that allows clients to identify areas where their current
issues, concerns and problems exist. After these problems are identified and when the time of life
is pinpointed when the problems first occurred, the healing processes will then begin.
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Name: Ava Bear
Canada
Affiliation: Muskoday First Nation
Title:
Action for Change
Brief Description:
Learn how one community is using a multi-faceted approach to take back their community.
Name:Brent Rory Coulston
New Zealand
Affiliation:
Title:
Taku purakau (My story on the wings to wellness)
Brief Description:
I am going to talk about my journey through addictions to wellness
Name:Carol Ann Hopkins
Canada
Affiliation: National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation
Title:
Culture in Addictions Services using Indigenous Intelligence
Brief Description:
―Indigenous Intelligence‖ is discussed as a key concept in applying Indigenous culture in
addictions services and systems. The application of Indigenous Intelligence is presented through
a cultural systems model for a continuum of addictions services.
Name:Celeste Tootoosis
Canada
Affiliation:
Title:
Sakewew Substance Awareness and Empowerment for Youth(SSAEY)
Brief Description:
Sakewew Substance Awareness and Empowerment for Youth (SSAEY) is a program that was funded by the Canada Drug Strategy and Enbridge Canada. It assessed the Substance use of First Nations Youth and created substance awareness through Youth Empowerment.
Name:Christine Ivan
Australia
Affiliation: Aboriginal health council of Western Australia
Title:
Beyond the Big Smoke Tobacco Control, delivered through Aboriginal Community Controlled health
Services, Western Australia
Brief Description:
Presentation will outline methods and results of combating smoking behavior amongst staff and
user populations of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs)in Western
Australia.
Name: Colleen Dell
Canada
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Title:
Healing with Horses: Aboriginal Youth in Residential Treatment for Solvent Abuse
Brief Description:
This presentation outlines how a culture-based model of resiliency (that is, an individual‘s inner
spirit is intertwined with their family, community and the land) adopted by a youth residential
treatment centre for solvent abuse in Canada, is interconnected with an equine assisted learning
program offered by one of the centres. Horses, based on their intuitive nature, offer insight for the
youth into their self and relations with others.
Name:Dennis Saddleman
Canada
Affiliation:
Title:
Word Warrior: Words of an Aboriginal Superhero
Brief Description:
A drama/dance presentation by Dennis Saddleman and his granddaughter Wind Dancer George depicting events that are part of the life of a residential school survivor and recovered alcoholic. Dennis is a noted poet and humourist.
Name: Eric Nathan
New Zealand
Affiliation: Raukura Hauora o Tainui
Title:
Te Toi o Matariki Best Practice Model
Brief Description:
Te Toi o Mataariki describes aspects of behaviour and characteristics.The model looks at
changing attitudes & behaviours and developing personal & social skills.
Name:Jay Brent Hohaia
New Zealand
Affiliation:
Title:
Kei te whakapikiaki kia matou whanau whanui / Uplifting our whanau as one
Brief Description:
An Outpatient Program for people with an intellectual disability for people who identify as Maori or
other cultural minorities.A program specifically to fulfill a service gap not only in Aotearoa New
Zealand but i te Ao katoa, around the world. A first.
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Name: Jeff Cummings
New Zealand
Affiliation: Pacific Contingent from New Zealand
Title:
Takanga A Fohe(Unison of Oars)
Brief Description:
We will use Performing Arts(Drama, Dance, Song) to demonstrate common themes and addiction
issues facing our pacific people in New Zealand
Name:John Mayo
Canada
Affiliation:
Title:
Intervention with Mental Health and Substance Affected Families; a Traditional Kanien‟keha:ka
Mohawk Response
Brief Description:
The ever increasing impact of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness (dual diagnosis) has been
devastating to Native communities. An authentic Mohawk (Kanien‘keha:ka) approach will be
presented as a form of intervention respecting the traditional and community-based ways of
healing.
Name: Kim Jonathan
Canada
Affiliation: White Buffalo YOuth treatment centre
Title:
White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre
Brief Description:
This presentation will provide an overview of the treatment Program at White Buffalo with examples of sessions and the daily, weekly treatment schedule. In addition, there will be opportunity for informal discussion and questions.
Name:Kristen Timothea Maynard
New Zealand
Affiliation: Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC)
Title:
Ruru Parirau– Shaking off negative stereotypes and reframing the story
Brief Description:
A key challenge of the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand‘s (ALAC) new plan to reduce
alcohol-related harm among Maori (and the focus of this session) is to find innovative ways to combat negative stereotyping of Maori drinking and transform these social constructions into more helpful ones.
Name: Maria Walmby
Australia
Affiliation: Back On Track Youth and FamilyHealing
Title:
Making A Difference providing Cultural Camp- Healing and Recovery. for Indigenous at risk Youth
aged 12-18 with anti-social, criminal behaviour and
Brief Description:
Journey of Hope,Recovery and Healing for at risk‖ Indigenous youth aged12-18 involved in
antisocial and criminal behaviour and drug addiction. grass root community group, the strength and love of the mothers. Camps have positive results. We love our children and taking positive steps to make a difference, never giving up on hope and allow them to dream...and reach their full potential in life.
Name: Neera Lewis
New Zealand
Affiliation: ARC Counselling Service
Title:
How I work as a Maori male Clinical within a mainstream service.
Brief Description: Whakatauki(Proverb)
He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tangata, He tangata, He tangata
What is the most important thing in the world? It is Man, it is man, it is man
Name: Papa Nahi
New Zealand
Affiliation: Hapai Te Hauora Tapui
Title:
Planting Seeds for Whakapapa Ora (Intergenerational Wellbeing):
Brief Description:
Papa Nahi and Zoe Martin Hawke will draw on Hapai Te Hauora‘s underlying values of Maori Ora
Mauri Ora, other Maori models of health and wellbeing and the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples to reflect on lessons learned in the lead up to local government
gambling policy reviews. They will recount their journey raising awareness of the harms of
gambling to whanau, hapu and iwi and supporting iwi to drive approaches to addressing gambling
harm with their communities using their own culturally authentic solutions.
Name: Peter Waples-Crowe
Australia
Affiliation: Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation(VACCHO)
Title:
Improving the outcomes of Aboriginal Injecting Drug Users in Victoria Australia
Brief Description:
This presentataion will report on the findings of two projects that are trying to improve the health
outcomes for Aboriginal injecting drug users in Victoria Australia
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