H.E.A.L. Healthcare
Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning (H.E.A.L.) Healthcare invites you to explore ways we have come to be in this world through arts-based learning tools providing an opportunity to deepen understandings about cultural humility, cultural competency, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism.
This podcast channel shares the audio inspired H.E.A.L. projects in one location. Be sure to read the podcast description for links to the project pages on the H.E.A.L. website to get all the background and learning resources.
To see all the learning tools, go to https://healhealthcare.ca/.
Health and Medical humanities are growing interdisciplinary fields bringing together health and medical sciences with arts (things like theater, creative writing, poetry, music, or painting and drawing). The podcasts created as part of the HEAL Healthcare curriculum are one part of that arts-based learning for healthcare providers, administrators, educators and learners.
Visit https://healtharts.ca/ for more information about the Health Arts Research Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia.
H.E.A.L. Healthcare
Ghost Pipe Podcast - Introduction
Introduction episode of the Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal introduces the series to the listener, sharing how her conversations with Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, will address the biases experienced by Indigenous individuals accesses mental health supports throughout the series. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157
The Ghost Pipe Podcast is a series of conversations exploring the experiences of both professionals and clients who have encountered colonial bias within the field of psychology. Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, shares her story of unmet mental health needs and how she found healing within an Indigenous context.
Though the need for mental health support is high, the treatment offered is often not a good fit for Indigenous people. The “mismatch” between the mental health needs of an Indigenous person and what is generally offered in counselling and therapy is illuminated by the stories of Indigenous individuals. The conversations shared in The Ghost Pipe Podcast provide a place to hear these stories, highlight existing bias in the field of psychology, and strengthen the call to decolonize mental health care.
This podcast series is part of the H.E.A.L. Healthcare project.
The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.
For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca