Sacred Medicine Wheel

Abstract

Métis Grandmother, healer, heARTist, activist, and educator Fyre Jean Graveline invites readers to join her in Journeying Together aRound Sacred Medicine Wheel. It is a Journey to Revitalize Lived, In.tuitive, and Embodied Knowings; to ReAwaken Indigenous Ancestral cultural and spiritual belief systems; to embrace healthy Forms of Relationality based on matrilineal collective egalitarian power sharing; and to individually and collectively creatively reWeave our shared web of Ecological Sustainability, our Oneness. When unlearning colonial attitudes and learning Indigenous Ways of Knowing, seeing, being, and doing, We may be challenged and changed through what We are encountering. We can continuously Ground with.in Medicine Wheel and seek to reBalance by Connecting to our Senses, to Elemental Powers. Fyre Jean introduces the concept of HeARTivism to describe active engagement in creative change processes: We can make visible, give form, sound, movement, voice, words, to what We and our Relations have lived through, in ways that emPower us to Name and TransForm Dominant and Still Dominating People, Systems and Structures. Breathing and Earthing are introduced as practices to support us as We Journey to Find Balance in our UnBalanced World, to reVeal and TransForm our shared WorldEcology. This is the first of five chapters that walk readers around the Medicine Wheel: East Door, South Door, West Door, North Door.

Author

Fyre Jean Graveline (she/her; they/them), PhD, RSW, RCAT, is a two-spirit resilient survivor and a Métis Grandmother, educator, author, healer, artist, and activist or heARTiviist. She/they work, play, and pray to create sustainable expressive arts healing practices through an Indigenous, feminist, ecoarts-based lens, emphasizing walking lightly and lovingly on Mother Earth. She taught and practiced in education and social work for over forty years. She is the author of Circle Works: Transforming Eurocentric Consciousness (Fernwood, 1998) and Healing Wounded Hearts (Fernwood, 2005). Still emerging is her newest book LIFE as Medicine: All Healing Heals All.

Citation

Graveline, F. (2025). Journeying together aRound Sacred Medicine Wheel. In S. Collins and M. Jay (Eds.), Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling (Chapter 1.5). Counselling Concepts. https://doi.org/10.71446/kz82748059