Limited research has been conducted into First Nations' healing, particularly
in the area of First Nations' spiritual connection. First Nations' spiritual connection is
perceived to be important from a counselling perspective.
The intent of this study was to construct a fairly comprehensive guide of what
helps and what hinders spiritual connection among members of British Columbia's
(BC's) First Nations, through a First Nations' voice.
Eleven adult members of First Nations living in BC were interviewed to obtain
information in the form of critical incidents regarding what helps or what hinders
spiritual connection. From these interviews, 29 categories were described as what
helped or hindered spiritual connection. These are: ceremonial activities, Elder's
teachings/guidance, establishing a connection with nature, prayer, family
connection, changing thinking, spiritual beliefs, supernatural experiences, residential
school, helping others, seeking help, dreams, role model, spiritual practices, self
awareness/self acceptance, receiving your name, cultural preservation/ reclamation,
sacred object, First Nations' traditional beliefs, alcoholism and drug recovery,
visions, establishing social connection, creative activity, philosophy of life, joining
organized religion, teachings/guidance, cultural connection/cultural awareness,
relationship to the Creator, speaking a traditional First Nations' language.
The findings of this study contribute to the field of counselling psychology by
providing a reasonably comprehensive scheme of categories and themes that
describe, from a First Nations' perspective what facilitates spiritual connection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/7847 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Christopher, Ada |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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