Healing Generations: Supporting Indigenous Voices Through Counseling and Advocacy
Description
My guest today is Trish Meekins. Trish Meekins is the sole owner of Nikaanaganaa Counselling & Learning Centre located at 897 3rd Ave. E. in Owen Sound. Trish provides individual and family counseling for ALL people and cultures.Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity Training and various other trainings to suit the needs of your organization; for example lateral violence and workplace ethics. She has been a counselor and teacher of First Nations culture and history for over 25 years. Her passion is her Indigenous roots and finds rewarding work in assisting all people become educated about themselves and how they fit as a part of community extending out to all of Creation. Trish offers training for agencies and organizations in cross-cultural training, lateral violence, workplace ethics, to name a few. She also runs a group for people entitled, “Pathways to Inner Peace; Living Life in Balance,” that she developed when she worked as a women’s counselor; realizing the tools she taught are beneficial to all people. In this episode we discuss first nations culture, spirituality in healing and the 7 Grandfather Teachings.
Website - https://trishmeekins.com/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/spiritleader73/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AncestralAscensions
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-meekins-msw-rsw-cyw-98785b48/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/Nikaanaganaa
In this episode you will learn:
1. How healing through a holistic approach to counseling through indigenous and alternative healing modalities can provide more meaningful healing.
2.The power of ancestral wisdom and cultural connection can lead to living with love, humility, bravery and truth..
3. Why the importance of interconnectedness to humanity and nature can be a more mindful and collective approach to environmental and societal challenges.
“I go from a holistic perspective, and that is the way that I was trained. And if we look at the medicine wheel, there are 4 parts of self. So, that medicine wheel is a framework for many different things, but in terms of a holistic viewpoint, It takes into account the spirit, which is your vision, your emotion, which is your guiding light, I would say, your thoughts, which come from that vision and allows you to be on the path of where you'd like to see yourself, and then of course, your living and being and doing.” - 00:04:56
“I would really like to have people to begin to self-reflect and see where they sit in the world. And even in terms of, like I said, that medicine wheel, with having that spirit, that vision for ourselves, having them really begin to self-reflect.” 00:32:14
“We all have gifts to share. When we look at that medicine, not only does it represent the 4 parts of self, but it also represents the 4 races of man.” 00:54:45
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