{"id":318,"date":"2026-04-02T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:35:54","slug":"pathway-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/pathway-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathway 1 Indigenous Worldviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-625b63cf wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Picture1.svg\" alt=\"Decolonizing health, healing, and care\" class=\"wp-image-9\" style=\"width:495px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\">Chapter 1.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-xx-large-font-size is-style-default has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong>Pathway 1 Centring Indigenous Worldviews<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>By <em>Melissa Jay, Sandra Collins, Cheyenne Johns, and Jessie King<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display has-medium-font-size is-style-text-display--2\">Book: <a href=\"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/\">Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care<\/a> <br>Published: June 1, 2025<br>Publisher: <a href=\"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/\">Counselling Concepts<\/a><br>Chapter DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/hw10295674\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/hw10295674<\/a><br>Book ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8<br>Format: ePub <br>Distributor: Vital Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-54af5b55 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\">Purchase your copy at<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-c124d1c4 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Vital Source<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-19206ade wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-xx-large-font-size\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Medicine Wheel forms a conceptual framework for the culturally responsive and socially just (CRSJ) counselling pathways and practices in this book. In this first pathway, the focus is on honouring Spirit (visioning and opening) as the authors centre Indigenous worldviews as a starting place for walking alongside all clients and cultural communities. Along this pathway these and other collaborating authors introduce three practices as a foundation for the conceptual and applied practice learning throughout the rest of the book: positionality, decolonization, and Etuaptmumk, which is also known as Two-Eyed Seeing. Centring Indigenous worldviews disrupts the normalization of eurocentric approaches to health, healing, and care and opens the door to multiple perspectives on health, healing, and care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display has-medium-font-size is-style-text-display--3\">Melissa, Sandra, and Jessie are grateful for the learner-centred perspective of Cheyenne Johns that reinforces the importance of embracing pluralism within counsellor education, theory, research, and practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li><strong>Chey<\/strong> speaks to the critical need for social justice-oriented counsellor training in her reflection on the invisible work that she and many other racialized students perform within higher education institutions that uphold eurocentric ideologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-xx-large-font-size\">Co-Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Melissa Jay<\/em><\/strong> (she\/her), PhD, RPsych, is a cisgender nehiyaw (Cree) member of the M\u00e9tis Nation of Alberta and lifelong student of yoga philosophy. She is a cisgender, able-bodied woman who moves through the world with white-passing privilege. She is a psychologist and associate professor at Athabasca University. Her work is centred in reciprocity and relationship, decolonized healing, anti-oppressive practices, and the integration of ancient wisdom and psychology. Her intention is to share trauma-informed, culturally responsive care, alongside her ongoing collaborative research exploring relational accountability, Indigenous methodologies, and ethical engagement with community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Sandra Collins<\/strong> (she\/her), PhD, is a co-editor of this book. She writes from the perspective of a feminist, lesbian, cisgender, woman with an invisible disability, who is a white, retired professor, and inhabits a privileged social class. Over the 25 years of her academic and professional career, she focused her research, writing, and teaching on cultural responsivity and social justice in theory, research, and practice. This is her fifth book on these topics, two of which were awarded the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Counselling biannual book award. She also received a silver medal for best e-book design by the<strong> <\/strong>Independent Publisher Book Awards<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippyawards.com\/index.php\">.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Cheyenne Johns<\/em><\/strong> (she\/her), HBA, is of mixed Indigenous, European, and Caribbean ancestry. She is Anishinaabekwe (an Anishinaabe woman) from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and a second generation Jamaican Canadian. She is currently pursuing a Master of Counselling Psychology at Athabasca University, and she is exploring racialized counselling psychology graduate students\u2019 experiences of invisible work for her master\u2019s thesis. Her academic and counselling interests include multicultural feminist theory, Indigenous research methods, decolonization, social justice, collective liberation, and experiential and somatic therapeutic modalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Jessie King<\/em><\/strong> (she\/her), PhD. Hadiksm Gaax di waayu. Jessie has matrilineal ties to Gitxaa\u0142a, belonging to the Ganhada. She is also settler-European Irish\/English on her father\u2019s side. She is an experienced instructor, facilitator, and researcher with a background in health, philosophy, and research design. Her areas of specialization include cultural safety, Indigenous rights and contemporary issues, research methodologies, decolonization and Indigenization, and instructional design. She is living on the traditional and unceded territories of Lheidli T\u2019enneh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-xx-large-font-size\">Citation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jay, M., Collins, S., Johns, C., &amp; King, J. (2025). Pathway 1 Centring Indigenous worldviews. In S. Collins and M. Jay (Eds.), <em>Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling<\/em> (Chapter 1.0). 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