1. Cross Cultural Elements of Healing

2. Worldview • Interpretation depends upon the contextual world from which the interpreter speaks • Provider interpretation must adapt to fit worldview of the person affected Jaguar Brings Fire – SS Boulet

3. What happens when? • … a provider isn’t willing to adapt his/her interpretation to fit worldview of the person affected

4. What are these elements? Steps to Survival: Cross Cultural Healing Elements in the Treatment of AIDS By Leon McKusick & Terry Tafoya

5. Power of Naming • How we define illness predicts how we will respond to it • Consider these HIV definitions: • ARC • HIV+ • AIDS • Chronic Health Condition • Giving an explanatory model

6. Punctuation • Not providing punctuation is a disservice • Most effective punctuation is provided at a moment of congruence • Example: starting medications Changing Woman – Duke Sine

7. Group Ritual • Group reality is established thru ritual • Group ritual provides a structure for powerful, open expression (not uncontrollable or overwhelming) Navajo Oral Tradition – Harrison Begay

8. Emotional Arousal • Altered states of consciousness – essential part of the healing transformation Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards

9. Emotional Arousal • Drumming, hymns or power songs become anchors or cues

10. Self Mastery • Promoting an increased sense of personal mastery in response to illness Sacred Path Cards

11. Self Mastery • Skill do not have to directly act upon the disease

12. Personal Qualities of the Healer • Research - important predictor of success with clients • Genuineness, warmth, & empathy • Varies from culture to culture Medicine Woman – SS Boulet

13. Personal Qualities of the Healer • Quickest way of disrupting client’s perception of provider is by violating the Secondary Worldview

14. Cross Cultural Elements of Healing • Shared to assist providers in reframing and recontextualizing approaches to illness and its treatment Creatrix Woman – SS Boulet