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WBIIH: Using Metaphors to Guide our Research and Practice

  • 13 May 2021
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Webinar

Using Metaphors to Guide our Research and Practice

About this event

Dr. Rod McCormick (Kanienkehaka-Mohawk)is a Senior Professor and BC Government endowed Research Chair in Indigenous Health at Thompson Rivers University. Before moving back to his partner's home community of T'Kemlupste Secwepemc, Rod was a psychologist and counselling psychology professor at the Unversity of British Columbia for 18 years. Dr. McCormick's research focuses on community capacity bulding and mental health and research as well as the reclamation of traditional forms of healing. Dr. McCormick was the lead for the BC Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environments, the BC Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research, and is currentlt the lead on the National/International Indigenous mentorship network Ombaashi as well as the All My Relations Centre at TRU.

Metaphors help us to see things in a different way. They provide us with new insight and can even change the way we think. Visual metaphors let your audience process ideas in two channels of their brain, creating a deeper impact as they sync the visual with the verbal. This presentation will discuss the use of metaphors as a way to guide our research and practice in Indigenous mental health.

Dr. McCormick will provide examples of metaphors he often uses such as the backswing; the ripple effect; circle and square; metaphors in ceremony and metaphors in nature. Participants will be asked how they use metaphors in their work.

This webinar will be moderated by Dr. Suzanne Stewart


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