Relatuhedron: A machine of possibilities

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A journey of new routes of healing with/by Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants is shared under the Two Eyed-Seeing Perspective of Elder Albert Marshall. The Universal Human Right of Indigenous self-determination and Relationality are the togetherness presented in a “mangrove tree” that lives between salty and sweet waters emerging as a protective place of rich ecosystems. The relatuhedron (shapes of relationality) a co-construction of a home, a Wigwam, Long House, Maloca, Ue, crystalizes knowledge and practices in the process of individual and community healing and cultural transactions. A set of neologisms such as relatuhedron, pedagomiologies, and social grammars, is proposed to challenge our views of mental health, healing, cultural transactions, stereotypes, recovery, and public policy and include simplicities and complexities required to support Indigenous well-being. It is a “machine of possibilities” for students and professionals working with/by and for Indigenous communities. In this book healing is presented as a process through scholarly practice and reflection. Healing is a process of emergence of meaning by improving relationality with the self, nature and others, in a practical approach to socio-cultural transformations. In  sum, healing is based on individual and community processes  both honoring and respective Indigenous knowledge and   scientific research to create endless opportunities for well-being. This book presents healing as a process of growth, a complex, dynamic and evolutive journey  of transforming how we stablish and maintain relationships with the self, nature and others inside of our cultural negotiations. Acknowledgment: Preliminary Self-Reflection Reference Presentation: A Shared Journey of Knowledge References Writer Dis-location: Recognizing My Own Location Reference Autopoiesis and Knowledge Ceremony: Third Movement on Values-Axiology Reference Contents About the Author Chapter 1: Introduction References Chapter 2: The Journey on Indigenous Health Research 2.1 Two-Eyed Seeing and Multiperspectives of Knowledge 2.2 The Macroperspective 2.3 The Experience of Questioning as a Way of Learning 2.4 Sources of Knowledge and Experience 2.4.1 As a Member of the Steering Committee for Indigenous Health Research Projects 2.4.2 Research Assistant for a Research Project on Urban Aboriginal Homelessness (2015) 2.4.3 Mentee Researcher for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, SPARK (2016) 2.4.4 Mental Health Counselor for Native Child and Family Services of Toronto (2016) 2.4.5 Research Administrative Coordinator for the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health (2017) 2.4.6 Text and Research Scopes References Chapter 3: Why Shift Health Research Toward Community Knowledge 3.1 The Harm Caused to Indigenous People 3.2 Health Epistemologies and Social Knowledges 3.3 Decolonialism and Indigeneity 3.4 Hard Science and Soft Science 3.5 University Health Education References Chapter 4: How This Journey Emerged as a Knowledge Process? 4.1 Multiple Ways of Gaining and Sharing Knowledge 4.1.1 My Personal Narratives 4.1.2 Collectively Expressed Knowledge (Discursive Declarations) 4.1.3 Community Shared Knowledge 4.1.4 Individual and Collective Art Constructions on the Relatuhedron 4.1.5 Data-Knowledge Production Tools 4.1.6 Informative Data Knowledge Moments 4.1.7 Indigenous Health Research Ethics 4.1.8 Relatuhedron of Multilevel Postmodern Community Participation References Chapter 5: Data-Knowledge Shared 5.1 Survey Conclusions 5.2 Qualitative Data-Knowledge 5.3 Unfolding the Richness of Indigenous Health Research Ethics Guidelines by the Triangulation of Perspectives 5.4 The Data and Knowledge from the OCAP® (First Nations Centre, 2007) and the USAID Frameworks (Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres, 2012) 5.5 The Data and Knowledge from Indigenous Epistemologies (Brant-Castellano, 2004; Wilson, 2008) 5.5.1 Principles of Ethics of Health Research 5.6 Power and Knowledge Discursive Formation (Foucault, 1972) 5.6.1 Discursive Practices 5.6.2 Rules 5.6.3 Roles 5.6.4 Power 5.6.5 Knowledge 5.6.6 Health Knowledge as a Commodity 5.7 The Relatuhedron as a Knowledge Tool References Chapter 6: Relatuhedron: What Is Different? 6.1 Routes of the Relatuhedron 6.2 The Story of the Relatuhedron 6.3 The Community in the Relatuhedron 6.4 The Art in/on the Relatuhedron 6.5 The Academic Relatuhedron 6.5.1 Geometry of the Relatuhedron 6.5.2 Social Grammar and Artificial Grammars in the Relatuhedron 6.5.3 The Fun in the Relatuhedron 6.6 What Difference Does This Knowledge Make? 6.6.1 New Health Knowledge 6.6.2 Multilevel Complexities Are Relevant Approaches to Reduce Indigenous Health Concerns Related to Indigenous Determinants of Health 6.6.3 The Principle of Self-Determination Is an Inherent Right to Be Different, Governed by Specific Cultural Ways of Being, and Interconnected to Other Indigenous Communities at the Local, Regional, and National Levels 6.6.3.1 Knowledge Emerges from the Interaction 6.6.4 Relationships Are a Process of Creating and Sharing Honest and Transparent Intentions 6.6.5 Knowledge Takes Time and Not Always Follows Research Timelines 6.6.6 All Indigenous Knowledge Matters 6.6.7 Indigenous Ethics Include Many Guidelines That Need to Be Consulted with Each Community 6.6.8 Indigenous Health Knowledge Supports Indigenous Community Recovery and Complements Evidence-Based Health Approaches 6.6.9 Knowledge Is Mainly a Tool That Transforms Reality, a Practical Way to Respond to Relationship Challenges Between Nature and Peoples. Theoretical Knowledge Is Secondary to the Goal of Creating Change 6.6.10 Real Participation and Knowledge Created Together Affirm Ownership and Self-Determination. It Takes Time and Effort, and Requires Specific Resources 6.6.11 Causality and the Concurrence of Events Are Subsidiaries of Emergent Knowledge 6.6.12 Rationality and the Balance of Health Connect with the Four Dimensions 6.6.13 Individual Human Health and Healthy Communities Intersect with Cultural, Historical, and Socioeconomic Human-Constructed Realities. Institutions Practice the Concept of Individual Biological Health as Part of the Indigenous Determinants of He 6.7 Location of New Epistemologies on Health Knowledge: Opening New Pedagomiologies 6.7.1 Context and Social Grammars 6.7.1.1 General Context of a Social Grammar 6.7.1.2 Social Grammar of Educative Philosophies 6.7.2 Building the Twenty-First Century Postmodern Task: Pedagomiological Routes References Chapter 7: Conclusion 7.1 Toward a Po-ethics of Concepts References Appendices Appendix A: Relatuhedron Pictures The Healing Relatuhedron Health Researches and the Ethics of Indigenous Health in the Relatuhedron Professional Development and the Relatuhedron Appendix B: Relatuhedron Coordinates Process Appendix C: Relatuhedron as a Social Grammar Appendix D: Social Grammars on Philosophy and Education Appendix E Appendix F: Public Policy Report (Fig. 15) References