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Who is
the one person that you can change? (See the bottom of this
page for the answer)
Wellness
often begins with changes. While it is almost impossible to
change our bodies or our feelings, it is possible to
make changes to our thinking and our actions. Changes in what
we are thinking, or what we do can promote mental and physical
health. Most changes involve working at building better relationships
with the people in your life. Using the seven habits that
build and encourage relationships, instead of the seven deadly
habits that destroy relationships is a step that has helped
many of us in Clyde River to find the love and belonging,
the empowerment, the freedom and the sense of fun that we
all need.
To find
out more about using the seven habits that build relationships,
you might want to check out Choice
Theory, the philosophical basis of Ilisaqsivik.
When
you drop by Ilisaqsivik's Family Resource Centre, you can
spend time will all kinds
of people, young and old, men and women. In all of our programs,
our goal is to better our relationships, with ourselves, with
our partners, with our children, with other members of our
families, and with the community.
Ilisaqsivik
has worked through a series of workshops, with sponsorship
from Health Canada and Nunavut Health and Social Services,
on life issues that have helped us as a community a lot.
- Communicating
with your family
- Working
Effectively With Others
- Releasing
Anger
- Letting
Go of Resentments
- Getting
Closer Together
The FRIENDS
Peer Counselling and Leadership Group carries out a quiet
but effective program of contacting at risk youths in our
community.
The Children's
Program Committee through its CAPC project offers Parenting
skills workshops and programming, and through the Healthy
Children's Initiative Program offers a Mom's and Tot's program,
an arts and crafts program, as well as a Health Canada sponsored
Prenatal program. An After School Literacy Program, as well
as the Community Library enhance these activities that help
people meet each other and become involved in healthy ways
with others.
We have
found it valuable to have Elders available to teach us about
traditional Inuit culture and language, and thus connecting
us with the richness of our ancestral heritage.
Women's
programs focus on involving women in healthy activities that
promote appropriate and creative involvement with each other.
Our Men's
program provides counseling and practical skills that are
aimed at developing belonging and empowerment amongst the
men of Clyde River.
We are
also involved in projects that reach out to people in the
other North Baffin Communities, through the North Baffin Personal
Development Initiative, the Irqrinnaqtuq Project. It is strengthening
for all of us to be more closely connected to the people in
Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay, Grise Fiord, Resolute Bay, Igloolik
and Hall Beach. And we have even hosted counselors from as
far away as Cambridge Bay; in our 9 part Nunavut Reality Therapy
Counsellors' Course.
Come
and see our poems and stories online,
where others who have made the same journey of discovery have
written about their experiences, or download a variety of
published personal development materials,
that are sure to get you thinking.
We're
here to help you to connect with others. Don't forget, you
can also phone us at (867) 924-6565 or email us at coordinator@ilisaqsivik.ca
Let's
get together!
The only person in the world you can change is yourself.
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