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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume: 20
July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
14th World Congress on
Mental Health and Wellbeing
5th World Congress on
&
The effects of oppression and historical trauma workshop
Apowerful experiential workshop to help educate Non-Native Service Providers of the collective trauma that has impacted
Native people throughout Canada’s history. After understanding that a collective trauma exists, participants will better
understand how the feelings such as; fear, shame, learned helplessness, and anger began to infiltrate into our communities
and led to the disempowering behaviors and social conditions that we see today. With this change in perception by having
experienced these impacts during the workshop, participants will have a more accurate understanding of why Native people
see, think, feel and behave the way they do. As a result, service providers will be better prepared to effectively communicate and
empower the Native People of their community.
Biography
Brad Marsden is from the Gitsegukla Indian Reservation within the Gitksan Nation in Northern British Columbia, Canada. He is an Inter-Generational Survivor of
the Residential Schools in Canada. He believes his workshop will affect the way the service providers feel about these native impacts and as a result the way they
see native people.
Brad Marsden
Suicide Prevention Facilitator, Canada
Brad Marsden, IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-017