Our Mission
The mission of the Spokane Tribe Wellbriety is to disseminate culturally based principles, values, and teachings to support healthy community development and servant leadership, and to support healing from alcohol, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, and intergenerational trauma. Spokane Tribe Wellbriety aims to do this by creating a sustainable grassroots Wellbriety Movement that provides culturally based healing for the next seven generations of Indigenous people.
What Is Wellbriety?
Wellbriety is a combination of wellness and sobriety. To be well is to actively make choices to be healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. To be sober is to be free from substance use and other harmful influences. Thus, wellbriety is to build a healthy life that heals and strengthens using Indigenous principles, values, and teachings.
The Four Laws of Change
In order for any change to be successful, there are four laws that must be followed. Understanding these laws can help us succeed in our journey to wellbriety.
Change Is From Within
All permanent and lasting change starts on the inside, then works its way out. These changes must come from an internal desire and commitment to make a difference in our lives.
Vision Guides Our Future
The vision we create today helps shape the future. What we think about is what we move towards and become. Your vision can shape your plans and habits to help you grow and heal.
A Great Learning Must Take Place
Everyone needs to be part of the change in order for a change to occur: children, youth, adults, parents, and Elders.
Create A Healing Forest
A community, like a forest, is only as healthy as its roots and environment. In order for individuals, families, and communities to heal, change must occur at the root level. This is done by replacing shame, anger, fear, and guilt with Indigenous values, teachings, spirituality, and ethics.
Cycle of Life Teachings
The Cycle of Life teachings explain the development of eight feelings and thought patterns. In order for a person to develop in a healthy way, these eight feelings and thought patterns must develop sequentially.
- Trust | Feeling safe and secure
- Independence | Developing confidence in yourself
- Initiative | Having the courage to take a risk
- Accomplishment | Knowing you are good at something
- Identity | Knowing who you are
- Intimacy | Feeling connected and that you belong
- Generativity | Giving back what you have learned
- Integrity | Doing the right thing when no one is watching
FAQ
What happens in wellbriety meetings?
Wellbriety meetings are non-judgmental gatherings that focus on healing and recovery from alcohol, substance abuse, co-occuring disorders, and intergenerational trauma. These meetings are rooted in Indigenous principles, teachings, and cultural practices that fosters individual and community wellness.
Will anything I share in a wellbriety meeting be shared outside the meeting?
Everything you see, hear, or say in a wellbriety meeting is kept confidential and is not shared outside the meetings.
Resources
Spokane Tribe Wellbriety
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888.258.8903 Toll Free
509.606.2764 ext. 607
- 888.722.4146
Wellbriety Meetings
Indiana Building
- Tuesdays | 5:30 – 7 PM
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1025 W. Indiana Ave.
Spokane, WA 99205
Wellbriety Lodge
- Thursdays | 5:30 – 7 PM
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6436 Joe Sherwood Rd.
Wellpinit, WA 99040