Two-Eyed Seeing Tools for Screening, Assessment, Intervention and Prevention
The Two-Eyed Seeing Tools are used for screening and referral, assessment, intervention, prevention and community development and (PAR) participant action research.
You may click the links below to access the tools.
- TES Diagnostic Wheel (196 kB): Assessment tool inspired by Mi'kmaq Elders that integrates a traditional healing perspective into the standard medical assessment process.
Medicine Wheel Tools
- Introduction to the Medicine Wheel Tool-Kit (5.5 MB): Introduction to the use of the Two-Eyed Seeing MW Tools.
- MW Community Development Tool (8.6 MB): PAR tool used to identify community strengths, challenges and priorities. A series of talking circles allow participants to visually map their ideas and work towards developing community action.
- MW Difference Game Cards (5.0 MB): Tool that assists youth in identifying needs and setting goals. Motivational interviewing assists in development of strategies to support youth in achieving their self-identified goals.
Version français Livret de cartes de jeu de différence (533 ko)- ▶️ Play the Medicine Wheel Difference Game!
- Cartes de jeu pour les jeunes imprimables (9.3 Mo)
- Printable Youth Cards (11.3 MB)
- Printable Family Cards (14.1 MB)
- MW Student Teacher-Index Tool (MWSTI) (345 kB): School system screening tool-serves as stage 1 FASD screening. Teachers identify students’ needs initiating referrals for service to specialists as well as to ED.
- MW Developmental History Tool (MWDH) (315 kB): Semi-structured interview tool administered to a birth-mother/guardian gathering developmental history for ED intake of youth identified in MWSTI with multiple problems-serves as stage 2 FASD screening.
The Medicine Wheel Turtle
In the turtle's circular shell there are four quadrants coloured yellow, red, white, and black. These symbolize four aspects of the Medicine Wheel approach: ‘An Education of Heart, Hand, Mind and Spirit’
- Heart
- symbolizes the wisdom of the emotional realm
- Hand
- symbolizes the force of the physical realm
- Mind
- symbolizes the knowledge of the mental realm
- Spirit
- symbolizes the power of healing connections in the spiritual and social realms