Soup and Bannock, plus Medicine Wheel and a 12 Step Program are all part of Wellness Wednesdays.
It started last week at Olds College Indigenous Services and carries on until the end of April. It is each Wednesday from 4:30pm to 6:30 in the Gathering Room.
Pamela Lashmore with the Indigenous Services team at Olds College explains. She says “you don’t have to be struggling with addictions of any kind to attend. If you just want to make yourself better. If you want to have personal growth or if you know somebody who struggles with addictions or if you yourself do, this is a program that Olds College offers the community as well.”
Lashmore has seen the benefits of it from past students and when she sees students that are alumni and they contact Indigenous Services and they are doing well, she points out that is the whole reason to keep moving forward with it – because they see the success. Lashmore says “for a young person to come into the rooms, knowing that there is maybe something that they need to take a look at in their life and really do that work and then come back and say ‘hey I’m doing really well’ that is why I keep doing it. It is about the community, it is about the students, and our students especially the young ones we need to really, you know, especially as older ones, we need to really encourage our young people and not give up and I’ve seen that from Medicine Wheel and 12 steps.”
She says this is about the fourth year they have offered it to both students and the community. Anybody is welcome to attend and anyone interested can learn more by contacting Olds College Indigenous Services at 403.507.7944 or [email protected].
