LIFE COURSE, MISSIVE, and METHODOLOGY

  Step into a book that treats wellness as a living story, carried in relations rather than reduced to metrics. The book moves between missives (letters), story, and methodology to follow wellness across the life course, showing how kinship, land, language, ceremony, and systems shape what “mental health” can mean. Inside, you hear a chorus of perspectives: Indigenous scholars, helpers, community voices, and reflexive practitioners writing in direct address as much as in academic prose. Rather than extract-and-measure, it centers relationship: consent, reciprocity, and responsibility to community and Indigenous self-determination. Open it when you’re ready to trade the checklist for the circle and let your work become a good relation.

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Sharon L. Acoose, PhD (Kiishiibii-biizuu-kinew-lkew, Circling Eagle Woman) has woven together an Indigenous knowledge base – specifically: a group comprised of Instructors, Administration, and Alumni from the School of Indigenous Social Work at the First Nations University of Canada – to provide an informed discussion on ethics through an Indigenous lens. The culmination of this work offers the reader an understanding of the praxis of ethics from Indigenous voices about, and for, Indigenous people. It is vital to note that the School of Indigenous Social Work is culturally and traditionally motivated. This book is about highlighting the strong ethics infused within the structural base of the School of Indigenous Social Work program. The authors have all brought a different view on ethics and the importance of maintaining a strong balance: emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally.

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