How do Aboriginal people overcome adversity?
Strategies to Face Adversity: Inner Strength
September 5, 2013
A number of study participants spoke about their inner strength, or strong spirit, helping them overcome adversity.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Enduring
September 2, 2013
Aboriginal people have endured, tolerated or suffered past government policies and racism in society.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Thriving
September 1, 2013
Many of Marion’s study participants were thriving, living a successful life and doing far more than just surviving.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Learning
August 31, 2013
Many study participants expressed that learning about their culture was an important part of survival as an Aboriginal person in today’s Aboriginal society.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Humour
August 30, 2013
Humour for most participants was an important coping mechanism used to deal with the many adversities they had to face on a daily basis. It was also used to help deal with stressful and painful traumatic events suffered by some participants.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Letting Go, Forgiveness and Healing
August 29, 2013
Every participant spoke of the healing process and how before such a process can begin, they had to let go of negative emotions such as anger and hatred.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Role Models
August 28, 2013
Role models were important to many participants and played a major role in many individuals being able to face and overcome the many adversities they had to face during their lives.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Health
August 27, 2013
Although health was not a major concern for most participants, some saw health as an important factor underlying resilience.
Strategies to Face Adversity: Education
August 26, 2013
Many participants spoke of education as power and how having an education certainly empowered them as individuals.
