The model behind
the movement.
The Inuit Mental Health Model is the foundation of Becoming Inummarik and all of our programs. Developed over five years in collaboration with Inuit mental health leaders, this 60-page framework translates Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit into a decolonized approach to mental health, self-healing and community healing.
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Most of our training happens through structured inquiry, not lecture. A facilitator's job is to ask the next good question — not to deliver the correct one. The slowness is where the learning happens.
Technique can be taught in a workshop. Who a practitioner has become cannot. No one in our programs guides another person through a process they haven't first been through themselves.
Orientation and understanding come first, then practice, then what that practice yields in a life.
We draw on a humanist education lineage with the conviction that a person cannot be reduced to any one part of themselves, and real learning happens through direct encounter, not just information transfer. Mental health practitioners are formed the same way, through their own experience of healing and transformation, and experiential learning that creates real value in their own lives before it can create value in anyone else's.
