Residential Treatment Programs
The Nelson House Medicine Lodge therapeutic facility is a non-medical unit offering an eight-week, gender-specific, in-patient, KNOW Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment Program with six sessions per year.
The emphasis is on indigenous cultural, spiritual and traditional practices, blended with contemporary techniques and treatments.
Workshops. Ceremonies. Activities.
In-house workshops include:
- Communications skills
- Colonization
- Self-exploration
- Inner child
- Lateral violence
- Healthy boundaries
- Co-dependency
- Building healthy relationships
- Sexual abuse
- Family violence
- Domestic abuse
- Trauma recovery
- Grief & loss
- Addictions & the brain
- Emotional abuse
- Family dynamics
Cultural ceremonies include:
- Spring and fall fasting camps
- Gathering medicines (sweetgrass, sage, cedar)
- Sweetgrass ceremonies
- Pipe ceremonies
- Winter round dance
- Regular year round sweats
- Naming ceremonies
- Night lodges
- Feasts
- Teepee teachings
- Bear/smoke lodges
Other activities include:
- Educational lectures on various topics related to addictions and healthy living
- Small group sessions for men, women and counsellor-client meetings
- Arts & crafts
- A.A., A.C.O.A. meetings
- Community resources, such as the Family Community Wellness Centre Program
- Recreational activities
- Self-care exercises