Safety Planning for Domestic Violence Using the Medicine Bundle with Corinne Stone

Please join us in a conversation around Safety Planning for Domestic Violence in First Nations communities using the Medicine Bundle.

Corinne Stone returns to UBC Learning Circle to discuss the purpose of the Healing Path Medicine Bundle. This workshop is for workers and community members who would like to assist in ongoing efforts to address family violence and its impact on individuals, families, and communities. Corinne will also speak to the obvious challenges that not only health care workers, counsellors, family members, friends, but especially the victims of abuse face when leaving an abusive relationship.

Session Video:

Session PDF here.

In this session you will learn:

1. Understanding the roots of interpersonal violence
2. How to recognize the harm of interpersonal violence
3. Historical factors
4. What to do in a crisis situation
5. How to use the medicine bundle
6. Individual, family & community healing

You can’t control abusive behavior but you can take steps to teach self-protection from harm. Assist in taking strides in creating a safety plan whether she/he decides to stay in the relationship or leave.

A safety plan is a personalized and practical plan for reducing risk of being hurt. by thinking through it in advance, a safety plan can help avoid dangerous situations and know th ebest way to reach when one is in danger

Everyone welcome to attend:

Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 noon (PST) 
Place: Participate live via video conference OR computer webinar.
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Registration: [Registration is now closed]

About the Presenter:

Corinne Stone is a member of the Tl’etinqox-Anaham Band from the Williams Lake Band. For more than two decades she has been providing a full range of services including counselling adults and youth who have experienced complex trauma and residential school syndrome, within the justice field, child and family settings, working for many different Aboriginal organizations and reserves including Squamish, Naniamo, Chemanius, and for her own Tsilhqot’in people. Currently residing in Vancouver, BC, her work has included the assistance in the development of a transition house for battered women, a street youth housing project and development of a traditional parenting program. 

Her latest accomplishment is to develop a Child and Family agency for her own community with an FOT perspective. In 2005 she won the National Aboriginal Women in Leadership Award for Health and Wellness.  Her educational background include a FTT (Focusing Oriented Therapist and Trainer), Alcohol and Drug, Sexual Abuse and Family Violence training and experience.  Corinne is trained in Advanced Training in the Healing Arts and Human and Community Development through the Four World’s Development Program.  She is a traditional dancer in both Sundance and Jingle Dress and conducts her own ceremonies using her traditional healing methods. Presently she is taking her EMBA in Aboriginal Leadership and working as Elder Cultural Spiritual Advisor for incarcerated women.

Resources and links from her previous session:

1. Healing Ourselves and Our Communities
2. Action Plan to Address Family Violence in Aboriginal Communities
3. Video of previous session: How to Address Family Violence Using the Medicine Bundle

Handouts

1. PDF Version of her PPT Presentation:
2. Guidelines for Talking, Healing, and Sharing Circles