Jo-ann Q’um Q’um Xiiem Archibald has worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories.
Featured Resources
Big Anxiety Research Centre
2023 | Australia, Canada
How can we frame suicide research and prevention differently? This panel brings together suicide experts and advocates to discuss the sociocultural, political, and environmental dimensions of suicide. The speakers will share key learnings from research and advocacy and reflect on how we can draw from Indigenous knowledge and scholarship to…
Black Dog Institute
2023 | Australia, United States, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand
Six Indigenous global leaders in mental health and wellbeing from four different countries held a free two-hour webinar as part of Black Dog Institute’s Summit on Self-Harm, held in November 2022. As part of the webinar, each shared their experiences of walking in two worlds and of navigating mental health…
Victoria O’Keefe
2022 | United States
Victoria O’Keefe is and Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, and is part of their Centre for Indigenous Health. Victoria is Cherokee Nation and Seminole Nation. She is also a psychologist. In this video she discusses the Decolonising Mental Health Systems webinar held in November 2022…
Jeffrey Ansloos
2022 | Canada
Associate Professor Jeffrey Ansloos is from the Fisher River Cree Nation in Manitoba. He is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide at the University of Toronto. He is a trained as…
Featured Resources
Big Anxiety Research Centre
2023 | Australia, Canada
How can we frame suicide research and prevention differently? This panel brings together suicide experts and advocates to discuss the sociocultural, political, and environmental dimensions of suicide. The speakers will share key learnings from research and advocacy and reflect on how we can draw from Indigenous knowledge and scholarship to…
Black Dog Institute
2023 | Australia, United States, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand
Six Indigenous global leaders in mental health and wellbeing from four different countries held a free two-hour webinar as part of Black Dog Institute’s Summit on Self-Harm, held in November 2022. As part of the webinar, each shared their experiences of walking in two worlds and of navigating mental health…
Victoria O’Keefe
2022 | United States
Victoria O’Keefe is and Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, and is part of their Centre for Indigenous Health. Victoria is Cherokee Nation and Seminole Nation. She is also a psychologist. In this video she discusses the Decolonising Mental Health Systems webinar held in November 2022…
Jeffrey Ansloos
2022 | Canada
Associate Professor Jeffrey Ansloos is from the Fisher River Cree Nation in Manitoba. He is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide at the University of Toronto. He is a trained as…
