SEWB Knowledge Systems

Social & Emotional Well-Being

MANKIND CENTER OF ALL THINGS

ARISTOTLE AND PTOLEMY Earth is center of universe...

CHRISTIAN COLONIZERS

Man is center of universe...

INDIGENOUS

FIRST PEOPLES

Accurately charted star systems, passed knowledge to future generations.

How We See Ourselves
Forever Evolving

After three millennia, 'The Doctrine' of mankind's physical and emotional systems was theorized and documented as a subjective history, accepted by most of the world's colonized population. Even as recently as 50 years ago, there was only one way of thinking for a 'normal' person. Don't question authority, our belief system has been established by the 'experts', it's known and documented. 'Proven.'

As we continue to advance in knowledge and technology, our views have and continue to change a great deal. Each new generation reveals truths that are met with disbelief and even ridicule. Lucky for us, a lot of them are up-and-coming scientists and scholars. Times have changed, and once again we're ready to re-discover just about everything we thought was true about our physical, mental and spiritual potential. Exciting!

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HELIOCENTRIC MODEL

Scientific knowledge overcame the idea that Earth was the center of the universe.

Today, we adhere to the Heliocentric model, where all bodies in each solar system revolve around the sun.

Flat Earth

New correct map of the flat surface, stationary earth Other Title When reading map lay it flat on table. Abizaid, John George, 1868- Created / Published Boston : [Publisher not identified], [c1920]

Ptolemaic Universe

Depiction of the Ptolemaic universe with the Earth at the center. Color woodcut from C. Cornipolitanus Chronographia, 1537

Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

Large-scale structure of the universe: a map of those primordial fluctuations. What we see today is long strands, sheets, and clusters of galaxies forming a huge web. The web is punctuated by voids, which have few or no galaxies. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian scientists Margaret Geller, John Huchra, and colleagues discovered the first huge piece of this structure in 1989, which is known as the “Great Wall”.

Mental Health Awareness
Welsh Music Artist Ren Gill

"Music is like a big, colourful quilt made up of all sorts of genres, but it takes someone special to stitch those different styles together seamlessly. That’s exactly what Welsh Singer-songwriter Ren is doing! Ren’s story is a mix of health issues and musical therapy. After being misdiagnosed with everything from depression to chronic fatigue syndrome, he finally found out he had autoimmune issues, including Lyme disease and brain damage. This was a game-changer for him. Instead of backing down, he turned his struggles into powerful music that speaks to his journey.

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HE MAKES HIS OWN WAY

Ren summed up his intentions for the song on Facebook, “When you put in monumental levels of effort doing self work, stress reduction techniques, CBT, self affirmations, following strict medication regimes with pills with a long list of side effects, and end up worse it’s a really defeating and confusing place to be because it contradicts everything we’ve been taught. It shakes your trust in the medical system.”

The Good Ways
Uniting Brothers and Sisters

Not All Endangered Cultures are Considered "Indigenous"

Heiðr isn't just for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), we're also about raising awareness of any endangered culture, species or environment. The overall mission is UNITY, through positive ways of understanding and sustaining all of Earth's amazing creatures, and their ways of being naturally in their native environment.

Toward Indigenous Conceptions of Health
Social and Emotional Well-being

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) is a multifaceted concept that acknowledges that a person's wellbeing is determined by a range of inter-related domains: body, mind and emotions, family and kinship, community, culture, Country, and spirituality.

Australian Academy of the Humanities

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia's First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culure.

THE POWER OF MUSIC

Science demonstrates the power of music's healing properties. The field is called music medicine. Music medicine researchers study how certain music-based interventions impact stress, pain, sleep and mood in patients.

#musicMEDICINE

A medicine song from the deep waters, that encapsulates and requires a moment to drop into the deep listening of Dadirri. This word from the Ngan'gikurunggurr language group from the Northern Territory of Australia embodies the spiritual practise of deep listening to the land within and without; To become the witness and recognise the powerful resilience and interconnection that is inherent in us all. Spirit is calling revels in the awakening to our greatest suffering as our greatest gift.

SOUL FOOD

BRAIN FOOD

"Listening to a mix of both familiar and unfamiliar music can help the brain recover from a stroke or surgery by stimulating oxygen and blood flow to critical brain regions."

Mei Rui, D.M.A.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)

Indigenous Knowledge is a body of observations, oral and written knowledge, innovations, practices, and beliefs developed by Tribes and Indigenous Peoples through interaction and experience with the environment.11 It is applied to phenomena across biological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual systems.12 Indigenous Knowledge can be developed over millennia, continues to develop, and includes understanding based on evidence acquired through direct contact with the environment and long-term experiences, as well as extensive observations, lessons, and skills passed from generation to generation.

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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in Food Systems Transformations

The Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical R

Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge for Effective Nature-Based Solutions in the Arctic

What is Indigenous Peoples’ conceptualization of health?

Clinicians’ Assumptions About Sami Culture & Experience providing mental health services to Indigeno

#Databack: Indigenous Material Culture is Indigenous Data

Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS)

Traditional knowledge is a collection of skills, practices, and knowledge that is passed down through generations within a community. It is often a key part of a community's cultural or spiritual identity.

Traditional knowledge can include:

Folklore: Expressions of folklore in the form of music, dance, song, handicraft, and designs

Technology: Tools and techniques for hunting, agriculture, and other subsistence activities
Medicine: Traditional medicine practices
Ecology: Ecological knowledge and ethnobotany
Astronomy: Ethnoastronomy and celestial navigation
Climate: Knowledge about climate

Traditional knowledge is often passed down orally by elders, making it mainly subjective and qualitative. This differs from Western science, which is based on academic and literate transmission and is objective and quantitative.

Traditional knowledge is important in making a country more developed. It can be used to forward think, while still keeping one's feet firmly planted in the past.