H.E.A.L. Healthcare

H.E.A.L. Healthcare

Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning (H.E.A.L.) Healthcare invites you to explore ways we have come to be in this world through arts-based learning tools providing an opportunity to deepen understandings about cultural humility, cultural competency, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism. This podcast channel shares the audio inspired H.E.A.L. projects in one location. Be sure to read the podcast description for links to the project pages on the H.E.A.L. website to get all the background and learning resources. To see all the learning tools, go to https://healhealthcare.ca/. Health and Medical humanities are growing interdisciplinary fields bringing together health and medical sciences with arts (things like theater, creative writing, poetry, music, or painting and drawing). The podcasts created as part of the HEAL Healthcare curriculum are one part of that arts-based learning for healthcare providers, administrators, educators and learners. Visit https://healtharts.ca/ for more information about the Health Arts Research Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Episodes

March 23, 2025 11 mins

This audio provides a Mindful-Presense Practice session by Heather Ferris, as part of the Present-Moment Awareness curriculum on the HEALhealthcare.ca website (link to curriculum).

Now is a time of great change and hardship in the world particularly for those who are suffering disease, displacement, unkindness. Many people have experienced bias through colonization and other systems of domination and oppression. Levels of stress and...

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This video will provide healthcare providers with an understanding of why so many of our people - People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) - are unable to overcome addiction. We will share our journey together through two pandemics (COVID and The Overdose Crisis) and how we supported each other through recovery and through active addiction. Our hope is that people can better understand the multiple layers of trauma that PWUD experience, along w...

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August 14, 2024 7 mins

This Sm’algya̱x (Ts’msyen Language) story is about two supernatural beings on a berry eating journey. This arts-based learning tool was developed for health care professionals, however anyone is welcome to participate and learn from it.

Before you listen along to Maaym Binben, Berry Bellies, go to the storybook to move through the pages with the audio. As well, download the Workbook to respond to the prompt questions and s...

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August 14, 2024 8 mins

Round 2 - Lunar Tides, is the second recording in a 3-part series by poet Shannon Webb-Campbell that was created to address racial and sexual biases in healthcare.

As a queer Mi'kmaq-settler poet, writer, and editor, I believe all arts are medicine. This project addresses healthcare provider biases via arts-based learning by giving three literary readings from my publications: Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022), I Am a Body...

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August 14, 2024 4 mins

Round 3 - Medicines Talk, is the third recording in a 3-part series by poet Shannon Webb-Campbell that was created to address racial and sexual biases in healthcare.

As a queer Mi'kmaq-settler poet, writer, and editor, I believe all arts are medicine. This project addresses healthcare provider biases via arts-based learning by giving three literary readings from my publications: Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022), I Am a Bo...

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August 14, 2024 6 mins

I Am a Body of Land, is the first recording in a 3-part series by poet Shannon Webb-Campbell that was created to address racial and sexual biases in healthcare.

As a queer Mi'kmaq-settler poet, writer, and editor, I believe all arts are medicine. This project addresses healthcare provider biases via arts-based learning by giving three literary readings from my publications: Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022), I Am a Body of...

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August 14, 2024 6 mins

Introduction episode of the Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal introduces the series to the listener, sharing how her conversations with Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, will address the biases experienced by Indigenous individuals accesses mental health supports throughout the series. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Pod...

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August 14, 2024 24 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 1. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal begins the conversation with Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, will address the biases experienced by Joelene as she accesses mental health supports. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157...

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August 14, 2024 21 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 2. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal and guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, discuss tokenism as it pertains to Indigenous culture. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this episode from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 26 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 3. In this episode, Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, describes her relationship with her counsellor that reminds her “that she holds the medicine” for her healing and support the family unit rather than individual.

Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this episode from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/gh...

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August 14, 2024 30 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 4. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal begins and guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, talk about "cloaking" in mental health professionals. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 34 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 5. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal begins and guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, talk about tattoos and their connection to culture and identity. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 20 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 6. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal begins and guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, discussion homelands and connection to land. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 32 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 7. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal hears from Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, who talks about first steps for moving forward and the priority she places on education that is historically accurate. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_con...

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August 14, 2024 16 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 8. In this episode, host Devanee Cardinal and guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, discuss how counsellors can better meet the needs of Indigenous clients. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 9 mins

Ghost Pipe Podcast - Conversations Decolonizing Mental Health - Chat 9. In this final episode, guest Jolene Thrasher, an Inuk woman, summarizes her healing journey with  host Devanee Cardinal. Access the Reflection Questions that accompany this series from the Ghost Pipe Podcast project page > https://healhealthcare.ca/projects/ghost_pipe_podcast_conversations/157

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August 14, 2024 32 mins

Do Her No Harm – Stories of Health Inequity and Dehumanization Experienced by cis-Women in the Canadian Healthcare System
Episode 2 - Marie Civitarese: Believe My Pain

In this episode, Marie shares her story of trying to navigate the Canadian Healthcare System as a young woman battling endometriosis for over 20 years. After decades of being passed between healthcare practitioners, feeling powerless, kept in the dark about her ow...

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August 14, 2024 31 mins

Do Her No Harm – Stories of Health Inequity and Dehumanization Experienced by cis-Women in the Canadian Healthcare System

Episode 3 - Brittany Clark: What Makes A Woman

In this episode, Brittany shares her story as a young woman trying to navigate infertility over the last six years. She describes how repetitive experiences of inconsiderate language, lack of transparency and medical gaslighting led her to question her own w...

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August 14, 2024 37 mins

Do Her No Harm – Stories of Health Inequity and Dehumanization Experienced by cis-Women in the Canadian Healthcare System

Episode 4 - Santanna Hernandez: Intersectionality and How We Can Be Agents for System Change

In this episode, Dr. Santanna Hernandez shares her story of navigating the Canadian Healthcare System as an Indigenous Woman, highlighting the complexity of intersectionality in the healthcare environment. Shifting from so...

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August 14, 2024 14 mins

Do Her No Harm – Stories of Health Inequity and Dehumanization Experienced by cis-Women in the Canadian Healthcare System

Episode 1 - Laura McNab-Coombs Clark: A Little Humanity Can Go a Long Way

In this episode, Project Lead Laura provides a brief overview of the Do Her No Harm project and how to best use this learning tool. She then shares her own stories of dehumanization in the healthcare setting, and how a little kindn...

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