Interest in a local weekly Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps program has grown as the calendar has flipped from September to October and now into November.
Pamela Lashmore, Indigenous Advisor to Olds College, points out that their doors are open to anybody for the program. You don’t have to be Indigenous, you can be from any community, and it not just for those people who are struggling with addiction. She notes that they also have others who join them online. Lashmore says “what I have seen is that the program is growing and the people are returning. So that tells me that something is speaking to them. We do have people that come because of the way their personal growth is changing for them and how they look at life differently, and how they look at their relationships differently, and themselves differently. So I would say that it has been very positive and I think the numbers that we have and the growth that we are experiencing speaks for the program.”
Each Wednesday they have supper at 4:30 in the LRC Gathering Room and then the Medicine Wheel & 12 Steps program/Well-briety meeting follows. Contact Indigenous Services at Olds College for more information.
