The ebook, Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling, is designed as an interactive learning resource to support both group and self-study.
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA): 20 Hours Continuing Education Credit (CEC)
Once you have completed the activities below, submit the CCPA CEC Application form directly to CCPA at cec@ccpa-accp.ca.
Anticipated Learning
- Deepen understanding of Indigenous and culture-centred worldviews as foundations for health, healing, and care.
- Apply decolonial and anti-oppressive frameworks to counselling, counsellor education, and/or supervision.
- Reflect critically on positionality, relational accountability, and cultural humility.
- Engage in the practice of Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) within counselling, education, and community contexts.
Foundational Requirements
To complete the requirements for CEC credit with CCPA, you begin with a few required elements and then choose the pathways that best suit your needs.
- Work through the Welcoming and Opening sections of the book, pausing to consider the reflective prompts on pp. 22, 25, 34, and 50. We recommend starting a reflective journal.
- Walk through Pathway 1.
- Drawing on Chapters 1.1 and 1.2, reflect on your positionality and how it may influence your views of health and healing and your interactions with clients. Consider each element of the Wheel of power and privilege on p. 71.
- As you consider the practice of decolonization in Chapter 1.3, complete the learning processes on p. 78 to personalize the “Calls to Action.” Select one additional reflective or interactive practice to complete.
- In Chapter 1.4, attend to the video on Etuaptmumk with Elder Dr. Albert Marshall. Draft a personalized description of Etuaptmumk as it relates to your counselling practice, supervision, or educational roles, adjusting it as you complete the chapter. Grounding in your own cultural identities and positionality, reflect on the importance of epistemological pluralism to your work.
- As you deepen your understanding of the Medicine Wheel in Chapter 1.5, pause to engage with one or more of the creative, arts-based healing practices offered by Fyre Jean Graveline. We encourage you to revisit these as you move through the book.
- Continue along Pathway 2, considering thoughtfully the meaning of awakening critical consciousness in the pathway introduction.
- As you move through Chapters 1.2 and 2.2, begin to personalize your learning journey by selecting 2–3 interactive activities that you find most challenging or meaningful. Then consider the Invitation to Action on p. 145.
- Review Chapter 2.3 and Chapter 2.4, focusing on content that is least familiar to you. Then complete the Worldview Reflections–Dialogue in the Call to Action on p. 178.
Self-Selected Activities
Drawing on what you have learned in the first two pathways, your positionality, and your evolving learning and unlearning needs, select two additional pathways to complete the CEC requirements.
- Identify a practice challenge you experience or anticipate experiencing or an area you feel less prepared for in terms of your work with clients, supervisees, or students. You may focus on the same issue in both pathways or choose a different scenario for each one.
- Review each pathway overview to make your selection. You may also find the pathways syntheses on p. 847 helpful in making your selection.
- Pathway 3 Fostering Cultural Safety (pp. 187–190)
- Pathway 4 Strengthening Cultural Empowerment (pp. 309–310)
- Pathway 5 Relating With Reciprocity (pp. 404–407)
- Pathway 6 Embracing Wise Practices (pp. 509–511)
- Pathway 7 Co-Creating Macro—Mesolevel Change (pp. 598–603)
- Pathway 8 Co-Creating Microlevel Change (pp. 723–726)
- Read each of the chapters in your chosen pathways, choosing the reflective practices and learning activities you find most meaningful to the challenge or learning gap you identified.
- Upon completion of each pathway, select 2–3 specific (a) insights or embodied learning about yourself, (b) shifts in your views of health, healing, and care, and/or (c) meaningful practices or concepts, and apply these to the scenario(s), challenge(s), or learning gap(s) you identified.
Ongoing Learning and Unlearning
We hope that you have enjoyed your journey through this resource and encourage you to:
- Continue to reflect on your positionality. How does what you have learned about yourself and others enhance your practice?
- Draw on Two-Eyed Seeing and other decolonial approaches to client work, supervision, or teaching.
- Engage in ongoing peer dialogue, community consultation, or supervision to enhance and sustain your learning.
If you require additional information, email Sandra and Melissa at crsjcounselling@gmail.com.