Module 4
Mastery: Starting the Path
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Purpose and Learning Objectives

Purpose

To acquire a vision of self in the context of family and society; and to be aware of beginning with self as the first step to strategic planning and community mobilization.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Apply the significance of culturally appropriate opening to establish the continuum of learning.
Interpret the "Origin of Basket" story as a way of understanding metaphors and different perspectives in applying mastery.
Examine a process for personal reflection and healing to effect individual, family, and community change.
Produce a Family Chart within a social/historical frame of reference by examining family of origin, within a Native, U.S., and global context.

FAMILY CHART

World Events	Native American Events	Family Events	Father	Mother	Child
1850s-1890s Treaties/Wars	Indian Reorganization Act	Parents marry	1st marriage much love	2nd marriage excited
WWI WWII
Korean War 1953-repeal Indian alcohol prohibition
1950-60 Indian relocation program
JFK assassinated
Vietnam
MLK and Bobby Kennedy assassinations
Alcatraz
Wounded Knee
1970s-Indian spirituality, unity and alcoholism treatment movement
1971-Alask Nation claims Settlement Act
1974-Self-Determination and Education Assistance
1978-Indian child welfare
1980s-Canadian Indian women married to non-Indians reinstated

CHRONOLOGICAL CHART

PARENTS:							HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS
Date	Wider Context	Family Context	Age	Events/ Impacts	Age	Events/ Impacts	Age	Events/ Impacts	Age	Events/ Impacts