by 3 Eagle Wellness

1. Holistic Wellness
A community Based Program
that empowers community
members
to make positive change

2. Background
In 2011 the Board of the Three Eagle Wellness
Society expanded their mandate to meet the
greater needs of communities, developing a
strategic plan to provide a comprehensive
Holistic Wellness Program.
The program was developed within the
continuum of care model of prevention,
treatment and aftercare.

3. What is Holistic Wellness?
The Holistic Wellness Program is a 16-
week manualized program (including 2
weeks of job placement)
encompassing life skills lessons and
treatment approaches designed to
promote positive growth and change in
the areas of self, family, community,
employment and leisure.

4. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
A primary objective of the Holistic
Wellness Program is to develop an
effective use of problem solving
behaviors in the management of
personal affairs.

5. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
A secondary and yet very important objective
is for those individuals to become confident
enough to express themselves.
The lessons build upon effective behavior
already possessed by the participants by
adding new behavior to their repertoire. In the
program they identify the strengths they
already have and discover strengths they may
never have recognized

6. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Skill building will facilitate healing for
individuals struggling with challenges
related to parenting, family violence,
addictions, trauma and abuse,
unemployment, skill development, while
practicing methods of effective
communication, coping, relationship
building and emotional modulation

7. COMMUNITY-BASED
TREATMENT
Delivering a detailed, step-by-step life skills
curriculum would serve an integrated purpose
of providing day treatment for those not
assessed as needing residential treatment,
aftercare support for clients leaving residential
treatment, and prevention opportunities for
children, youth and adults in the community.

8. COLLABORATION
Collaborative involvement from community
resources will enhance programming and
provide in-kind support as needed for program
delivery. These resources include Maternal
Health, Brighter Futures, Mental Health,
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative, Blood Borne
Pathogens, Prenatal, NNADAP, Human
Resource Department (HRD), Social Services,
Children and Family, Education, Indigenous
Residential School program (IRS), Public Works.

9. HOLISTIC WELLNESS MODEL

10. LESSON PLAN
Each lesson has six stages marked by different forms of
activity on the part of the coach and participants;
1. Stimulus
2. Evocation
3. Objective Inquiry
4. Skill Practice
5. Skill Application
6. Evaluation

11. Stage 1: Stimulus
In the Stimulus, a problem is presented. This may be
done if different ways, e.g. film, case study, trust
exercise.
During the Stimulus the coach seeks to create interest,
provoke, motivate or question.
The aim is to stimulate feelings and discussion among
the participants

12. Stage 2: Evocation
In the Evocation, the coach encourages the
participants to express their feelings and opinions
related to the stimulus.
Participants share their knowledge and reactions,
helping each other to clarify the problem.
The coach helps the participants define the problem
and formulate fact finding questions for investigation in
the next section.

13. Stage 3: Objective Inquiry
Through Objective Enquiry the coach acts as
teacher or guide. New knowledge and
information are presented to help the
participants find answers to their questions and
to expand and verify the knowledge they
already have.
This is an excellent opportunity to utilize
community resources to deliver program
specific information in the areas of healthy
families.

14. Stage 4: Skill Practice
In the Skill Practice segment of the lesson,
participants practice behaviours and skills that
were taught during the Objective Enquiry. This
practise takes place within the group, through
role playing or case studies.
Each participant’s practice is closely
monitored by the coach and other
participants, so that strengths and weaknesses
can be identified and goals for behavioural
change can be established

15. Stage 5: Skill Application
In the Skill Application phase of the lesson, the coach
helps the participant to apply the knowledge and skills
to real life problems.
Activities in this phase provide opportunities for
participants to:
• Use the skill being taught while interacting with
peers
• Solve actual problems in group
• Transfer the use of these skills to their lives outside
group.

16. Skill Application cont’d
The Life Skills approach says that knowing is not enough.
Participants must practise the skills in group, must help
others find ways to try new behaviours, and must
actually try the skills in their personal lives.
If the behaviours work, they are likely to be used again.
If they don’t other solutions are sought and tried.
Success in this phase will motivate the participant to try
the behaviour again and to continue using it.

17. Stage 6: Evaluation
In the Evaluation phase, the participants and
the coach assesses what learning took place
and how the lesson helped. In most lessons,
the evaluation is done through discussion,
either by analysing videotapes or using a
checklist. The coach notes the individual
participants need for further practice on the
skill and objective and plans ways to provide
this.

18. Evaluation cont’d
This phase usually provides three types of evaluation:
evaluation of the lesson by the coach and participant;
evaluation of the participants; skills by themselves and
other group members; and the coach evaluation of
participants, skill acquisition.
This provides information whereby participants and
coach can set further goals or recycle exercises for skill
review and further practice. A side effect of consistent
evaluation is that participants learn to use evaluative
processes in their own lives.

19. SEQUENCING
The sequence in which the lessons have been
arranged is intentional and based on a belief
that certain skills need to be learned before
others can be presented.

20. ADULT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
16-week program which includes 2 weeks of job
placement
The manual contains lessons to be delivered
sequentially by the Coach with optional content
available for use based on participant need.
• Includes 34 Life Skills Lessons
• Includes 25 Seeking Safety Lessons
• Includes Anger Management

21. ADULT PROGRAM DAILY
SCHEDULE
The Holistic Wellness Program is to be delivered
from 9:00 – 3:00, Monday through Thursday for
16 consecutive weeks.
The idea of operating from 9:00 – 3:00 Monday
to Thursday is twofold;
1. Gives the participant the experience of getting
up and going to the class (somewhat like a job
or school) establishing a pattern of operations.
2. Gives the coach time from 3:00 – 430 and all day
Friday for program preparation, and for other
work activities.

22. ADULT LESSONS
1. Addiction and
Alcoholism
2. Addictions – Self
3. Addictions – Family
4. Anger Volcano
5. Arguing Fairly
6. Asking Information-
Seeking Questions
7. Assumptions
8. Attending Behavior's
9. Balanced Self-
Determinism
10. Brainstorming
11. Building Strengths of
the Individual
12. Culture
13. Face Your Fears
14. Family Violence
15. Giving and
Receiving Feedback
16. Giving a Talk and
Using Community
Resources Effectively
17. Goal-Setting
18. Helpful/Harmful
Behavior's
19. Home Comfort
20. Identifying Feelings
21. Identifying Strengths
of the Family
22. Job Preparedness
23. Leader/Follower
24. Leisure
25. Networking
26. Nutritional Meals
and Healthy
Planning
27. Organizing for
Opportunity
28. Planning and
Organizing
29. Problem-Solving with
a System
30. Residential School
31. Self-Worth
32. Sexuality
33. Trust
34. Values Clarification

23. Adult Lessons Cont.
ANGER MANAGEMENT LESSONS
GAINING BETTER CONTROL AND UNDERSTANDING
OF OURSELVES
STRESS MANAGEMENT
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNICATION
ROLE MODELLING

24. ADULT LESSONS Cont.
Seeking Safety Lessons
The Seeking Safety program is included as a
comprehensive program directly addressing integrated
treatment for trauma and substance abuse.
The program is designed to establish safety from
substances, relationship violence, and extreme trauma
symptoms such as dissociation and self-harm.
Its goal is to help participants own and name trauma
experiences, validate the connection to substance use,
and provide psychoeducation and safe coping skills to
manage overwhelming impulses and emotions.

25. Seeking Safety Lessons
1. Introduction to Seeking
Safety
2. Case Management
Needs
3. Case Management
Goals
4. Safety
5. Safe Coping Skills
6. What Is PTSD?
7. Link Between PTSD &
Substance Abuse
8. Long-Term PTSD Problems
9. Using Grounding to
Detach from Emotional
Pain
10. What Is Substance
Abuse?
11. How Substance Abuse
Prevents Healing from
PTSD
12. Choose A Way to Give
Up Substances
13. Climbing Mount Recovery
14. Mixed Feelings
15. Self-Understanding of
Substance Use
16. Self-Help Groups
17. Substance Abuse and
PTSD Common Questions
18. Asking for Help
19. Approach Sheet
20. Self-Care Questionnaire
21. Harshness VS Compassion
22. Ways to Increase
Compassion
23. Signs of Danger VS Safety
24. Create a Safety Plan
25. Key Points About Red and
Green Flags
26. Honesty
27. Notice What You Say to
Yourself!
28. The Split Self
29. Responsibility and
Promises
30. Creative Solutions
31. Overcoming Emotional
Blocks
32. Action Plan
33. Creating Meaning
34. National Resources,
Consumer Guidelines for
Treatment
35. Healthy Boundaries
36. Learning to Say “No” in a
Relationship
37. Learning to Say “Yes” in a
Relationship
38. Getting Out of Abusive
Relationships
39. Boundary Problems
Associated with PTSD and
Substance Abuse
40. Discovery Versus Staying
Stuck

26. Holistic Wellness
YOUTH PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

27. Holistic Wellness Youth Program
The program also provides a 4-week
summer program for youth, teaching
life skills including effective
communication skills, coping skills for
trauma, abuse and addictions,
adolescent anger management, and
key components of life skills modules
related to self, family and leisure and
culture.

28. Holistic Wellness
YOUTH PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This is a 4-week summer program for
youth, teaching:
• Effective communication skills
• Coping skills for trauma, abuse and
addiction,
• Adolescent anger management
• Key components of life skills modules
related to self, family, leisure and culture.

29. YOUTH LESSONS
1. Addictions
2. Bullying
3. Diversity
4. Gang Violence
5. Impaired Driving
6. Internet Safety
7. Relationship Violence and Safety
8. Sexual Safety
9. Sexual Abuse and Harassment
10. Tobacco Use

30. Next Steps
Engage First Nations Communities that are interested in
offering the Holistic Wellness Program to a variety of
Participants.
Community Engagement
• Community to identify community based coordinator to
organize community programs that share the common
interest of empowering community members to make
positive lifestyle changes.
• Community based programs to co-fund and sustain the
Holistic Wellness Program operations and provide
incentives to participants.
• Community to designate two individuals that would serve
as a positive role model to participants and to attend the
ten week Coach Training, then contract the individuals to
offer the day program ongoing in their community.
.

31. Participant's
Who can benefit from the program? All community members!
Program referrals have been made from the following;
Self Referral – Individuals that want to make Positive Life changes
NNADAP – Community Addictions
Court – Justice System
Social Development
Child & Family Services
HRD – Employment Preparedness
Health – Maternal Health/ Brighter Futures/ Healthy Families/ Pain
Management
Education – Preparedness

32. The Holistic Wellness Program
recognizes that true change
occurs when the person has a
clear understanding of their goals,
a clear description of the new
behavior and an understanding of
those conditions that make the
behavior acceptable.

33. For additional Information, Please contact 3 Eagle
Wellness (780) 523-9928