Finding Healing and Balance in Learning and Teaching at the First Nations University of Canada

• Published in: First Peoples Child & Family Review
• Main Author: Faith, Erika
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada 2007
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1069369ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1069369ar

In this personal memoir of three years teaching at the First Nations University of Canada, the author reflects on what she learned, in applying internally and externally, an Aboriginal model of social work education. As a person of non-Aboriginal ancestry, she explores how her own struggle with the imbalances inherent in academia spurred her search in grounding her teaching in holism, healing, reciprocal relationships, empowerment, liberation, and pleasure, and how the integration of these practices strengthened her relationships with her own spirit, but also with ‘all my relations’.