Module 10
Community Give Away
Handouts
GONA Evaluation Form
Handed out on site
by
The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (P.I.R.E.)
Glossary
ATOD: The acronym for Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
(ATOD), a term commonly used by Federal agencies or substance
abuse prevention trainers when speaking about substance abuse.
BICULTURAL: Of, or combining two distinct cultures in a
single person or region in equal or nearly equal proportions.
COLLABORATION: To work together in some mutual undertaking,
to cooperate toward a common objective.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: A group of people living together
in a smaller social unit within a larger one and having interests,
work, etc., in common and working together for growth, advancement,
and improvement (economic, social, safety, justice, etc.).
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: A group of individuals who represent
different sectors of the community who agree to team and work
together for a common cause, for example to reduce alcoholism
and drug abuse.
COMMUNITY TEAMS: GONA curriculum is based upon the participation
of community teams, a multidisciplinary group from the same community
who go through the GONA together and work together on team activities
during GONA.
CSAP: The acronym for Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
(CSAP).
CULTURE: The characteristic features of a group of people
including its beliefs, its artistic and material products, and
its social institutions. The structure of behaviors, ideas, attitudes,
values, habits, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies,
and practices among a group of people, which defines for them
their design for living and for life.
CULTURAL OPPRESSION: The state in which a cultural group
is oppressed or dominated by another, in a manner which restricts
or prohibits the first culture from practices upon which that
culture is based.
DIDACTIC: Learning method for instruction, that consists
mainly of presentation and traditional teaching methods.
DIVERSITY: The condition of being different, varied, or
having differences.
EMPOWERMENT: To facilitate enhancement of power or authority;
to give ability to; to facilitate to selfdetermine existence
or behavior.
EXPERIENTIAL: Learning activity that includes personal
involvement and participation.
FACILITATOR: To support a group process in order to draw
out ideas of participants.
GONA ALTAR: GONA provides a place for sacred objects to
be set and to serve as a witness of the hard work that is done
at GONA. It is introduced at the beginning of the opening ceremony.
The altar opens the doors to understand recovery and healing and
the importance of spirituality. GONA trainers may share their
sacred objects for the altar, but the invitation should go out
to anyone who wants to place something on the altar.
HEAD HUDDLE: This is when the GONA trainers and TC gather
informally for a quick consultation about how to proceed on the
agenda; if they should change the agenda; or to check things out
with each other about the GONA and how participants are reacting.
HOLISTIC: The view that an integrated whole such as mind,
body, and spirit are interdependent upon each other; isolated
parts have an effect on the whole organism. Systems are interconnected.
METAMORPHOSIS: A change of form, shape, structure, or substance
(for example, changing from caterpillar to butterfly).
MIND MAPPING: A free sharing of ideas evolving around a
single idea or a cluster of ideas that are visually represented
in a circular form evolving outward into larger domains as ideas
or words are multiplied and given by the group.
MULTIGENERATIONAL TRAUMA: Trauma which is passed on from
one generation to the next because of psychological, social, and
environmental traumatic conditions and stressors that are unresolved
within a family system, community, or population.
NORMS: A group standard; a way of behaving in a group,
which is either established cognitively by a healthy group upon
beginning a task, or which evolves through the behaviors of the
group over time.
PARADIGM SHIFT: A paradigm is a model or example of how
things happen. The term "paradigm shift" describes a
shift in how things happen. Used during GONA, it refers to the
way community development is changing from the old bureaucratic
model of top to bottom hierarchy, to a model of grassroots empowerment,
and participatory decision making, one more in line with traditional
Native values.
POPCORN: This term is used to describe a group interactive
process where the group is asked to volunteer comments or thoughts
to a question, and these responses are written down on newsprint.
RESILIENCY FACTOR: Human capability for recovering strength,
spirits after being harmed, stressed, or oppressed.
RISK FACTOR: May be individual, family, community, or social
characteristic with high correlation (but not necessarily causation)
to ATOD problems.
RISK TOKENS: Participants are given poker chips or some
other small object which signifies a "risk token", and
is used by participants to symbolically toss into a basket when
they feel they are "taking a risk" during the GONA.
RITES OF PASSAGE: A ceremony in some cultures marking the
passing to another, more advanced stage, as to puberty or adulthood.
SPIRIT HOUSE: A place that has been set aside for GONA
participants and GONA trainers to have solitude and a quiet place
for prayer or meditation. The participants will be told about
the location of the Spirit House on the first morning. In addition
to a quiet private space, some of the items available in the Spirit
House might include, a pitcher of water with glasses; sage; tobacco;
an eagle feather; a Bible; the AA Big Book; Book of Affirmations;
candles; or other objects which are appropriate for the Regional
Cultures represented by the participants at the GONA.
SPIRIT HUDDLE: This is when the GONA trainers take the
time to support each other spiritually or emotionally prior to,
after, or during the day.
TALKING CIRCLE: A Native American form of sharing of ideas,
thoughts, feelings, songs, stories, and prayer through the process
of ceremony and talking within a circle of people led by a trained
leader or someone who knows how to run a talking circle.
TRANSFORMATION: To change the form or outward appearance,
to change the condition, nature, or function.
TRUSTBUILDING: Exercises to build cooperation, confidence,
and faith in another. An important first step in the team building
process.
VALUES: A thing or quality having intrinsic value; something
having or held to have real worth to an individual or group.
VISUALIZATION: Guided imagery; performing a mental image
of something not present to the sight.