Laura Hall

Laurentian University · Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity

There is a need for Indigenous-centered research to appraise culture’s role in wellness. Researchers described the development and validity of the Native Wellness Assessment (NWATM). The NWA has culture-as-intervention at its apex. Wellness, culture, and cultural intervention practices (CIPs) are explored from an Indigenous perspective. Indigenous...

This paper describes the methods, strategies and insights gained from a scoping study using a "Two-Eyed Seeing" approach. An evolving technique, Two-Eyed Seeing respects and integrates the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and Western sciences, often "weaving back and forth" between the two worldviews. The scoping study was used to inform a tool fo...

This article explores the application of two-eyed seeing in the first year of a three-year study about the effectiveness of cultural interventions in First Nations alcohol and drug treatment in Canada. Two-eyed seeing is recognized by Canada’s major health research funder as a starting point for bringing together the strengths of Indigenous and Wes...

Background Cultural interventions offer the hope and promise of healing from addictions for Indigenous people.a However, there are few published studies specifically examining the type and impact of these interventions. Positioned within the Honouring Our Strengths: Culture as Intervention project, a scoping study was conducted to describe what is...

This paper offers some reflections on the contextual issues and approach to a social action research initiative, the Ecology of Well-being Project (EWBP), active in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, which seeks to address psycho-spiritual well-being among these communities. Specifically, it focuses on building epistemological resilience among these...

Scientific discourse increasingly views humankind as embedded within a complex web of ecological relationship. Paradoxically, issues of human well-being and development are often dealt with in a fragmented and compartmentalized manner. This paper provides an outline of a social action research project with Indigenous, migrant and refugee women in C...