Wellbriety Training Institute

The 7 Steps to Systemic Change is a 5-year community change process. Its purpose is to transform our communities into healthy forests.

We believe:

1. The community is the …
   • therapist
   • healer
   • counselor
   • culture
2. Healing occurs in small circles that expand throughout the community.
   
   
3. The 4 Laws of Change
   • Change is from within.
   • In order for development to occur, it must be preceded by a vision.
   • A great learning must take place.
   • You must create a Healing Forest.
4. Our current communities are sick forests.
   
   
   
5. Creating a healthy forest is possible.

Seven Steps for Systemic Change

There are a series of steps that White Bison recommends communities follow in order to get the most benefit from implementing the community change process. The stages of implementation follow a natural order that helps to build trust, confidence and participation within the community.

1. Meet with Interested Community Members and share the goals, objectives, and process.
   
   
2. Community Readiness Survey: Establishes a baseline measurement for community change.
   
   
   
3. Head Man / Head Woman Firestarter Training: The community choose two people to be change agents. Their job is to bring people to the sacred circle. For a year, they will join change agents from other communities every 90 days for a weeklong, intensive session.
   
   
4. Mending Broken Hearts: Develops grief healing coaches in the community to process unresolved grief and the losses created by the legacy of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma, especially the effects of the Boarding School era.
   
   
5. 7 Trainings: Creates cultural circles of healing facilitated by community members.
   
   
   
   
6. Community Visioning : Creates a Community Vision Day where members create the vision for the community.
   
   
7. Vision Book: Combines the community vision and experiences of the process itself into a book that tells the story of what happened, what the community sees as its preferred future. Out of the visioning process, the community acknowledges the important qualities of its character.
   
   
8. Action Planning and Implementation: Transforms the vision into action plans and the implementation process into reality.