Module 5
Mastery: Historical Context
Day 2

Overview	Time
Purpose	Learning Objectives
Major Sections	Transparencies
Handouts

Overview

This module encourages and supports participants as they examine multigenerational family and historical issues. It also concludes with a ritual important to bringing closure to a significant experience.

Time

3 1/2 hours, plus a 90-minute lunch break

Purpose

To support participants as they begin to identify, experience, and express the impact of multigenerational trauma for the purpose of moving toward resolution.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Describe cultural oppression and multigenerational trauma and ways they impacted Native Americans, and how they influence substance abuse.
Survey significant events and issues that devastated Native Americans.
Identify cultural strengths and values that supported Native Americans to survive and heal.
Value the significance of collective rituals for resolving historical trauma.

Major Sections

I.	MiniTeach and Video: Define multigenerational trauma and cultural oppression First half of video (Wiping the Tears) and discussion	(45 minutes, includes 30 minutes of video)
II.	Exercise/Individual: Mind Map-what broke apart the Indian and native world?	(20 minutes)
III.	Video/Discussion: Resiliency Factors-what holds our world together? Second half of video (Wiping Tears) and discussion	(45 minutes, including 30 minute video)
IV.	Closure: Rock Exercise for closure, transition, letting go story of Rock: script, actors, role play, the story using rock to pass around the circle explain the symbolic closure of the ritual, prepare for movement into Module 6	(45 minutes)

Transparencies

T-5.0:	Module 5 Purpose and Learning Objectives
T-5.1:	Resiliency Threads Mending Indian World
T-5.2-T-5.2a:	Factors that Broke apart Indian World/Culture

Handouts

HO-5.1:	Story of Rock
HO-5.2:	Ethnicity and Cultural Background Questionnaires
HO-5.3:	Resiliency Threads Mending Indian World

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Module 5 Mastery: Historical Context Day 2