{"id":336,"date":"2026-04-02T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:10:58","slug":"practice-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/practice-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice 3 Etuaptmumk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Practice 3 Etuaptmumk: Embracing Two-Eyed Seeing<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Melissa Jay, Sandra Collins, Albert Marshall, Darlene Denis-Friske, Fyre Jean Graveline, and Mahdi Qasqas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book: Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care<\/a>
Published: June 1, 2025
Publisher: Counselling Concepts<\/a>
Chapter DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/fk84265467<\/a>
Book ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8
Format: ePub
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Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing is a traditional way of knowing of the Mi\u2019kmaq Peoples offered through the wisdom of Mi\u2019kmaq Elders and Knowledge Keepers, Elder Dr. Albert Marshall and Elder Dr. Murdena Marshall. Elder Albert Marshall describes Etuaptmumk as the Mi\u2019kmaw concept of the \u201cgift of multiple perspectives,\u201d which involves acknowledging, valuing equally, and learning from the strengths of both Indigenous and eurowestern ways of knowing to bridge worldviews. The authors position Etuaptmumk as a foundation for opening our hearts and minds to exploring health and healing through multiple lenses. It offers a way of looking at each element of the counselling process through the lens of Indigenous worldviews alongside the established eurowestern, individualist viewpoint. Practicing Etuaptmumk invites a both\/and rather than either\/or perspective that has the potential to enhance healthcare experiences and outcomes for all people and peoples by providing a framework for effectively and ethically navigating one\u2019s own worldview, the worldviews of clients, and the conventional eurowestern worldview of counselling and psychology. The authors embrace epistemological pluralism to further amplify the importance of honouring the integrity of Indigenous worldviews. Pluralism builds on the foundations of Practice 1 Positionality by grounding ways of knowing, doing, and being in the particular cultural identities and relationalities of each person, Nation, or cultural community. A pluralist approach is only possible when the epistemological, ontological, and axiological positioning of both people or both communities or both worldviews is positioned as equally valid and relevant to health and healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa and Sandra value the unique contributions of the co-authors in this chapter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n