Play the Difference Game!Two-Eyed Seeing
Two-Eyed Seeing is the guiding principle of the Eastern Door Centre.
Our Early Years with Elder Josie Augustine
Working through Stigma
It is the bravery and strength of the first birth parents in Elsipogtog who led the way because of their great love of their children—wanting them to succeed and get support and help.
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