Healing Pathways:
Indigenous Diabetes Wellness

A culturally grounded learning experience for community members, health workers, and caregivers supporting Indigenous diabetes wellness. Through shared knowledge, reflection, and practical guidance, this course deepens understanding, strengthens culturally safe care, and supports holistic approaches to diabetes prevention and management.

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About This Course

This stand-alone course supports community members, health workers, and caregivers in building culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous diabetes wellness. It offers practical knowledge, reflective learning, and applied tools to better understand diabetes through holistic, strengths-based, and community-informed perspectives.

Each module includes:

  • Short, culturally grounded teachings that connect wellness, balance, and lived experience
  • Curated videos and audio stories that support learning and conversation
  • Hands-on reflection and wellness activities designed for individual or group use
  • Guided prompts that encourage dialogue, insight, and shared understanding

This course is informed by recurring themes shared through community conversations, wellness initiatives, and Indigenous-led health work. While it does not draw from a single study or program, it reflects common experiences, concerns, and strengths expressed by Indigenous individuals, families, and communities navigating diabetes today.

Why Take This Course:

This course offers community members, health workers, and caregivers practical tools that can be used in everyday wellness and diabetes support. Modules include reflection activities, conversation guides, wellness mapping exercises, food and lifestyle planning prompts, and culturally grounded resources that can be adapted for individual, family, or community use. Each section focuses on strategies that support understanding, confidence, and informed decision-making around diabetes care.

The course emphasizes whole-person wellness by exploring the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of living with diabetes. Through teachings, shared stories, and guided reflection, participants examine the impacts of stress, disconnection, and imbalance, while gaining approaches that support cultural safety, self-worth, and sustainable wellness practices rooted in Indigenous knowledge.

This course strengthens community-based approaches to diabetes education and support. Participants explore how diabetes affects individuals, families, and communities, and consider ways to build more responsive, respectful, and culturally informed wellness initiatives. The learning encourages relationship-building, shared responsibility, and collective approaches to improving diabetes awareness and care within Indigenous communities.

What You’ll learn:

Across five modules, you will explore:

  • Understanding diabetes within Indigenous contexts
  • Recognizing early signs, risk factors, and lived impacts
  • Supporting balanced nutrition, movement, and daily wellness
  • Integrating cultural teachings into diabetes care & education
  • Building confidence in diabetes self-management
  • Communicating about diabetes in culturally safe ways
  • Engaging families and community supports
  • Creating environments that support long-term health

Each module combines cultural teachings, shared experiences, and practical activities to support meaningful learning and application.

FAQs

This course is designed to support understanding, conversation, and action around diabetes in Indigenous communities. It focuses on practical wellness knowledge, cultural context, and everyday decision-making related to food, movement, stress, and care. The course can be used for personal learning, group discussion, or as part of community wellness initiatives.

Learning is grounded in Indigenous perspectives of balance and relationship. Participants engage with teachings, real-world examples, and guided reflection that connect health information to lived experience. The emphasis is on relevance, respect, and approaches that can be adapted to different community and family contexts.

This learning space is open to anyone involved in Indigenous diabetes wellness, including community members, caregivers, wellness workers, and educators. No prior medical training is required. The course is especially useful for those seeking culturally safe ways to talk about diabetes and support healthier choices without judgement or stigma.

The course brings together Indigenous knowledge, community-shared experiences, and established health information related to diabetes. It reflects patterns and insights commonly raised through Indigenous wellness work rather than a single program or research study, with an emphasis on respect, accuracy, and cultural relevance.

Supporting healthier futures through knowledge, care, and connection.

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