Eden

Rediscover Your Lost Place

May 2026—Spring Edition

Operations of Power
Old Instruments, 
New Perspectives
‘’We have now arrived at the Un-Manifest, which is the basis of manifestation, the support of the sensual world. It is then that, from the microcosmic point of view, the Great Arcana is unveiled! The substratum of Manifestation is achieved! When our ego has passed through all the stages of purification, and when it ends by dissolving completely, the form of the directing Eloï is established in the Impersonal.  

Union is achieved in the highest Sephira, and the Microcosm and the Macrocosm are no longer separate, but become one.’’ Practical Kabbalah – R. Ambelain (19XX). trans. Piers A. Vaughan, p. 81, in fine.
Investigating Orbital Dynamics
Challenging the Water’s Inertia
The existence of two daily tides is explained by the Moon's gravitational pull, creating two opposite bulges in Mother Earth’s oceans, combined with her daily rotation, and the interaction of the Moon and the Sun's gravitational forces.

Oscillating currents produced by tides are known as tidal currents. The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water. The tide then changes direction and is said to be turning.

The Moon’s gravitational pull must contend with the water’s physical inertia, thus explaining the delay before the tide actually turns, or reverses.  
Strategic Advisory Bureau
Speaking 
the Mother Language
Praxis Forum’s Strategic Advisory Bureau was created for the purpose of providing advice, policy research and program evaluation services to underserved communities and populations, at greater risk of experiencing health inequities and social injustice, due to structural barriers that limit access to foundational resources.

The Advisory & Risk Management Bureau (ARMB) is part of Praxis Forum’s Neutral Third Party Services, which combine innovative Public Health Practice with Dispute Prevention and Resolution principles, to improve overall performance and achieve specific policy, health equity and social justice objectives. Our areas of intervention include, but are not limited to:
   
  • Education and Training;
  • Individual and Group Processes;
  • Structural Transformations; 
  • Policy and Legislative Changes.

Cutting-Edge Experimental

We aim to be at the forefront of innovation in Public Health Prevention, Promotion and Protection, by pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional clinical intervention to address the social determinants of health, pioneering novel ideas that reduce underlying risks, empower communities to control their well-being, and defend against environmental and infectious threats, building systemic synchronized systems for health equity, social justice and resilience.

Who We Are

Get to Know our Hybrid Practice

The Advisory & Risk Management Bureau (ARMB) is part of Praxis Forum’s Neutral Third Party Services, which combine innovative Public Health Practice with Dispute Prevention and Resolution principles. Our hybrid practice combines two distinct methodologies to improve overall performance and achieve specific policy, health equity and social justice objectives.

What We Do

Education and Research Into Innovative Public Health Prevention, Promotion and Protection

The ARMB focuses primarily on the Health Equity and Social Justice portfolios. The Health Equity and Social Justice portfolios are intended to make certain that every person has a fair opportunity to achieve their best health and quality of life targets, regardless of race, gender, physical or psychological condition or socio-economic status, by addressing the social determinants of health and removing structural barriers to self-determination.

How We Do It

One Dimension, Multiple Channels to Achieve Policy, Health Equity and Social Justice Objectives.

Multi-layered strategies that combine preventative education, environmental changes, and legislative and policy actions enhance the long-term success and sustainability of interventions that combine a health equity and social justice objective.

Why We Do It

Full-Scale Transformations in People, Places and Power Structures Begin in the Home and at the Community Level.

Health equity and social justice are essential for fostering long-term, intergenerational community wellbeing, by addressing health inequities and reducing all forms of systemic injustice and violence through education, rather than using more invasive, aggressive or cohersive practices to treat diseases or illnesses, or to resolve contentious matters.

When and Where

Prevention is Better than Cure, Mitigation Goes Beyond Crisis Management and Remediation.

Preventative and promotive interventions are most effective when implemented early, at the individual and community level, to address the social, economic, environmental, and behavioral determinants of health and justice.

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Systemic Transformations

Health law and policy serve as the foundational framework for systemic public health strategy foresight, design and implementation, shifting the focus from individual clinical care to community-level prevention, promotion, and protection. These strategies are centered on equity, human rights, and systemic transformations that seek to build responsibility and sustainable outcomes from one generation to the next, according to the Seventh Generation Principle.

01

Build Healthy and Equitable Public Policy

Building healthy and equitable public policy is a proactive approach to improving population health by embedding health considerations into all sectors of policy-making. It aims to create environments where the healthiest choice is the easiest choice for all community members, addressing social determinants such as housing, income, education, and social support.

02

Change the Direction or Focus of Programs

Changing the focus or direction of health programs involves shifting from a reactive, disease-oriented model toward a proactive, preventative, and community member-centered approach to improve long-term health outcomes. This transformation requires focusing on social determinants of health, leveraging data for evidence-based decisions, and actively engaging community members.

03

Develop Skills for Growth, Acquisition and Refinement

Developing skills for growth, acquisition, and refinement requires a multi-faceted approach focusing on strategic foresight, risk management, and ethical leadership to improve organizational governance. Key areas include advancing health literacy, strengthening interpersonal communication, and leveraging processes and tools for self-management and care coordination at the community level.

04

Implement Organization-Wide Governance Systems

Implementing organization-wide governance systems is a critical lever for improving health outcomes at the community level; providing the strategic, structural, and cultural foundation necessary for reliable, equitable, and appropriate care. Effective governance ensures that strategic policy frameworks are paired with accountability, resource allocation, and performance monitoring to directly impact health outcomes for all community members.

05

Create Supportive Environments

Creating supportive environments improves health outcomes by making healthy choices easier, safer, and more accessible to all community members, thus directly addressing the social and physical determinants of health. Effective approaches include designing walkable communities, fostering strong social networks, and creating safe, engaging spaces in homes, workplaces, and schools.

06

Strengthen Community Action

Strengthening community action, is a core pillar of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, to improve public health by empowering local authorities and community members to set priorities, make decisions, and implement strategies for better health. It focuses on enhancing self-help, social support, and capacity to address health inequities through participatory, community-led initiatives.

Public Health Action
Personalized Approaches to Whole-Person Health and Wellness
Modern public health prevention is evolving by combining traditional foundational tools with new innovative perspectives that incorporate technology, social determinants and personalized approaches to health and wellness. 

While ancient methods like quarantine and sanitation remain essential, they are now reimagined through digital surveillance and holistic, community-focused frameworks to track chronic diseases and risk factors rather than just acute outbreaks.

This involves using genomic mapping, personal lifestyle metrics and environmental traking to create customized, individual and community-level preventive strategies for addressing prevalent chronic conditions such as hypertension, osteoarthritis, mood and anxiety disorders, and diabetes.

New strategies include systemic, structural policy interventions to shape the environment, determine the conditions for health, enforce standards, change behaviors and mitigate health disparities.
Follow the Shepherds 
Combating Violence and Deviant Behavior in the Community
In Canada, nearly 8 in 10 victims of police reported intimate partner violence are women and girls. 

Indigenous women are especially at greater risk of being sexually assaulted by their intimate partners and are more likely to have experienced severe and potentially life-threatening forms of violence.

Praxis Forum’s Follow the Shepherds Canine Programs are dedicated to combating violence at the community level, by working with inmates and young offenders, in curbing their deviant behavior and enhancing their potential for successful reintegration, and gifting eligible women with a trained canine companion for their security and protection. 

The canines play a dual therapeutic and rehabilitative role with inmates and young offenders, and enable women, and their children, to experience a higher quality of life, security and peace of mind, recovery from trauma, improved self-esteem and greater control over their lives.
Operations of Care
Restoring Natural Patterns
Restoring natural patterns in human behavior involves reconnecting with the natural environment and optimizing nutrition to counteract the cognitive, emotional, and physical depletion caused by chronic stress and modern-day living.

By reshaping primary health program architecture to a more eco-humanistic approach, community health programs can further contribute to preventing chronic diseases, distress and isolation, by addressing the evolutionary mismatch between modern environments and biological patterns.

This approach, often referred to as humanizing health environments, focuses on slow living to nurture both physical and mental well-being, and make natural, health-promoting behaviors and social cooperation the standard.

Enter the Era of Eden

The Life-cycle healing approach emphasizes building supportive environments that foster continuous growth, resilience, and adaptability throughout a person's life stages. It acknowledges that healing is not linear, but rather a continuous cycle of shedding old patterns, adapting to transitions, and moving from periods of grief or stagnation into periods of dynamic emotional, mental, physical and social well-being.

Healing Systems

Healing Foods

Healing Lifestyles

Healing Rituals and Traditions

Healing Relationships

Healing Power of Celebrations

Health System Transformation
Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into Clinical Settings
Conventional health systems can improve significantly by integrating Indigenous holistic philosophies, centuries of botanical knowledge, and community-centered care models. While modern medicine often focuses on treating specific symptoms or diseases, Indigenous medicine approaches health as a balanced relationship between the mind, body, spirit, and environment. 

Indigenous-led health programs are being combined into mainstream healthcare systems through several key models designed to shift control toward Indigenous communities and incorporate traditional knowledge into clinical settings. 

This hybridization, or blending of traditional and conventional practices, improves health equity by addressing colonial trauma and making healthcare systems culturally inclusive and relevant for all Canadians, including First Nations, covered under the Canada Health Act (CHA).

Community Action

Strengthening community action, is a core pillar of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, to improve public health by empowering local authorities and community members to set priorities, make decisions, and implement strategies for better health. It focuses on enhancing self-help, social support, and capacity to address health inequities through participatory, community-led initiatives.

 Ending the cycle of poverty, which disproportionately affects 1 in 4 First Nation individuals in Canada, by implementing self-determined, community-led economic development, enhancing social protection systems and ensuring equitable access to essential services, land tenure and education. 

Goal 1. Ending the Cycle of Poverty.
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms in First Nation communities.

 Ending hunger by enhancing food production and self-reliance, improving access to traditional food systems, supporting community-led agriculture, protecting traditional knowledge, and improving infrastructure for food storage and distribution. 

Goal 2. Ending Hunger and Increasing Food Security.
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

 Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, which involves addressing deep disparities in health outcomes, such as higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy for Indigenous populations. Key focus areas include improving access to culturally appropriate care, mental health services, and traditional foods while mitigating environmental threats. 

Goal 3. Ensuring Healthy Lives and Promoting Well-being for All at All Ages.
Goal 3. Addressing deep disparities in health outcomes.

 Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education by implementing culturally diverse pedagogy, securing stable, community-specific funding, and fostering local control over education systems at all levels of the educational system. 

Goal 4. Implementing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

 Achieving gender equality by returning to a matriarchal societal culture in which women are loved, and their bio-psycho-social capacity and role is honored, respected and celebrated. It includes eliminating violence against Indigenous women, ensuring representation in leadership, and implementing the 5% mandatory minimum target for federal procurement contracts. 

Goal 5. Empowering Women and Girls.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

 Ensuring the availability of clean drinking water and sanitation by investing in infrastructure, and training local water operators to end recurrent drinking water advisories through improved testing, maintenance and sustainable funding. 

Goal 6. Ensuring the Availability of Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation.
Goal 6: Ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation systems.

 Ensuring access to clean energy by investing in community-driven projects, prioritizing renewable sources like solar, hydro, and wind to replace diesel, building local capacity and skills, securing long-term capital, ensuring regulatory clarity, and fostering clean energy partnerships. 

Goal 7. Funding Clean Energy Projects.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

 Achieving economic reconciliation for indigenous peoples through self-determination, investment in community-owned infrastructure, and development of a hybrid economy that addresses economic disparities, supports Indigenous entrepreneurship, and ensures a green, equitable transition for First Nation communities. 

Goal 8. Addressing Economic Disparities.
Goal 8. Addressing economic disparities and equitable transition.

 Promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and innovation through community-led stewardship and long-term sustainability efforts, that build resilient infrastructures and foster innovation, and support connectivity, rather than rapid-resource exploitation, extraction and depletion. Key efforts include developing green, climate-resilient infrastructure, improving access to high-speed internet access, and leveraging traditional knowledge for technological innovation. 

Goal 9. Building Resilient Infrastructure and Fostering Innovation.
Goal 9. Building resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation.

 Reducing inequalities within and among communities by addressing systemic racism, implementing anti-racisms strategies in public systems, including the health and justice systems, and housing industry. 

Goal 10. Reducing Systemic Discrimination in Public Systems.
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities within and among communities.

 Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, and resilient by investing in community-focused anti-violence campaigns that are culturally appropriate, and promote and protect human-rights and freedoms. 

Goal 11. Increasing Community Safety and Security.
Goal 11: Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and violence free.

 Reducing waste, fostering circular economies, and ensuring sustainable practices in collaboration with First Nation communities. Key initiatives include funding for on-reserve waste management, promoting traditional hunting and food security systems, and establishing a National Benefits-Sharing Framework to advance economic reconciliation. 

Goal 12. Ensuring Responsible Consumption and Production Patterns.
Goal 12: Ensuring responsible consumption and production patterns.

 Taking urgent action to combat climate change by supporting programs that enable First Nation communities, such as the Indigenous Guardians program, which empowers communities to manage traditional lands and ecosystems, monitor ecological health, and implement nature-based solutions to climate change. 

Goal 13. Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change.
Goal 13: Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

 Strengthening Indigenous stewardship of marine and coastal ecosystem management, by integrating traditional knowledge to reduce marine pollution, protect ecosystems, reduce ocean acidification, and end overfishing to maintain healthy, productive oceans essential for food, oxygen, and climate regulation. Key initiatives include co-managing marine areas, recognizing Indigenous fishing rights, and creating Indigenous-led conservation projects. 

Goal 14. Strengthening Indigenous-Led Marine Conservation Efforts.
Goal 14. Conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

 Protecting, restoring and promoting the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, forests and biodiversity by promoting Indigenous-led conservation efforts, that apply traditional knowledge to manage forests, restore degraded ecosystems, and protect species habitats. 

Goal 15. Protecting Terrestrial Ecosystems.
Goal 15. Protecting, restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.

 Promoting, protecting and upholding the constitutional and fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples, by addressing systemic racism, promoting self-determination, and reducing the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the justice system. 

Goal 16. Promoting Indigenous Governance and Self-Determination.
Goal 16. Promoting, protecting and upholding the constitutional and fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples.

 Strengthening sustainable development by fostering nation-to-nation relationships with First Nation Tribal Governments and Local Authorities, and supporting indigenous-led projects, all the while ensuring that Meaningful consultation are held; Accommodations are arranged and upheld; and Free, Prior and Informed Consent is obtained before making decisions that could reshape or destroy the landscape. 

Goal 17. Advancing Reconciliation by Reducing Inequalities and Enabling Productive Nation-to-Nation Relations.
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
A Change of Direction
Protection Against Chronic Systemic Stress in Children
Early childhood experiences are fundamentally shaped by systemic forces that dictate the quality of a child's environment, relationships, and physiological development long before they enter a formal classroom. 

Chronic physiological wear-and-tear in early childhood alters the immune and metabolic systems, embedding a permanently lower threshold for stress activation that correlates with adult chronic illnesses. 

Structural forces like poverty, discrimination, and environment literally get "under the skin" to damage a child's organs, tissues, and brain architecture. While systemic forces create the environment, parents hold incredible power to shield their children from allostatic load. 

On a day to day basis, parents can prevent stress from becoming toxic by creating healthy routines, and a predictable loving environment, that acts like a physical and psychological shield against chronic destructive stress, shutting down a child's fight-or-flight response.

Social and Economic Drivers of Health

Social determinants of health are the non-medical conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. Traditional prevention often focuses on individual choices and medical interventions. However, social determinants dictate the context in which these choices are made, making them critical to effective prevention. Early intervention and prevention strategies that target social determinants aim to mitigate adversity before chronic issues or health disparities become entrenched.

Income and Social Status

Income is one of the most critical determinants of population health. Individuals with better income consistently experience higher life expectancy, lower rates of chronic disease, and better overall physical and mental well-being.

Employment and Working Conditions

Employment and working conditions are primary social determinants of health. The quality of work directly influences physical, mental, and social well-being through financial stability, psychosocial stress, and exposure to hazards.

Education and Literacy

Higher educational attainment increases socioeconomic opportunities, enabling individuals to afford better healthcare, housing, and nutrition. Additionally, literacy improves cognitive abilities and self-advocacy, directly enhancing an individual's capacity to find, process, and understand critical medical, legal and financial information.

Childhood Experiences

Childhood experiences dictate foundational physical and mental health. Severe adversity, such as abuse, neglect, or chronic stress, creates chronic stress that alters brain development, immune function, and gene expression. This significantly increases population-wide risks for chronic diseases, mental health disorders, and early mortality.

Social Supports and Coping Skills

Social support and coping skills serve as primary pillars of public health, directly mitigating the impact of psychological distress and chronic adversity on overall physical and mental well-being. Together, they offset mortality rates, reduce hospitalizations, and promote resilient communities capable of adapting to systemic stressors.

Physical Environments

The physical environment shapes population health status by dictating exposure to toxins, access to resources for daily living, and opportunities for physical activity. It affects both the incidence of chronic diseases and overall life expectancy. Street design, traffic speed limits, and well-lit sidewalks reduce the risk of pedestrian injuries and encourage people to walk and exercise outdoors, reducing obesity and diabetes.

Healthy Behaviors

Healthy behaviors are the primary drivers of population health. Widespread adoption of positive lifestyle habits directly reduces chronic disease rates, lowers premature mortality, and decreases the societal economic burden. Conversely, high-risk behaviors increase morbidity and trigger healthcare crises.

Access to Health Services

Access to preventive and curative health services directly shapes population health status by enabling early disease detection, timely interventions, and chronic condition management. Without it, populations face higher mortality rates, poorer health equity, and worsened quality of life.

Gender

Gender affects population health status through a complex mix of biological sex differences, societal gender norms, and inequalities. While women generally live longer, they experience a higher burden of chronic illness and face systemic healthcare disparities. Conversely, men face higher mortality rates from risk behaviors and violence.

Biology and Genetic Endowment

Biology and genetics serve as the fundamental baseline for population health, determining disease susceptibility, resilience, and baseline life expectancy. While they dictate the inherent risks people face, environmental interactions and lifestyle behaviors largely determine whether these genetic predispositions are actually expressed.

Culture

Culture profoundly affects population health status by shaping how people perceive illness, navigate healthcare systems, and engage in daily behaviors. It determines what is considered a health problem, dictates social norms around diet and activity type and level, and influences whether individuals seek medical attention.

Race-ism

Racism acts as a powerful social determinant of health, fundamentally altering population health status through chronic stress, unequal distribution of resources, and institutional barriers. For both First Nations and immigrants, discrimination degrades physical and mental well-being, though the historical context, systemic mechanisms, and health impacts differ.

Talks for All
Recognition Events, Lectures and Experientials
Explore the forefront of innovative health equity and social justice architecture with our Talks for All Recognition Events, Lectures and Experientials. 

These carefully crafted conversations provide executives and community members with a safe, unbiased and confidential forum in which to seek out truths, root-out errors, eliminate inconsistencies and reconcile misunderstandings, in a friendly, participatory and informal setting.

To organize an event with your executives or community members, contact Jennifer Braga at events@praxis-forum.com

Conventional Streams

Traditional Dispute Prevention and Resolution Services

Conciliation

Communtiy-Based Conciliation is a process for helping disputing parties work through their issues by way of an informal, voluntary, confidential and non-adjudicative process that typically results in a settlement agreement which is binding on the parties. The conciliator is a neutral third-party, who is impartial and independent. The conciliator’s role is to provide disputing parties with a fair and equitable process in which to prevent the escalation of their matter, manage variances and reach a fair and reasonable settlement. The Community-Based Conciliation service is appropriate for dealing with a broad-range of issues involving private, corporate or commercial matters.

Mediation Service

Mediation is a voluntary, confidential, and informal process in which a neutral third party, the mediator assists disputing parties in reaching a mutually acceptable settlement of their issues. The core purpose of mediation is to facilitate communication and help the parties generate their own solutions, rather than having a decision imposed upon them by a judge or arbitrator.

Faciliation

The community is full of complex and delicate questions. Facilitation sessions are perfect for working through or debriefing some of the ugliest battles that communities may face in their daily endeavors. This service is open to community representatives and executives, and their personnel or members, conducting business under federal or provincial jurisdictions in Canada. Topics of discussion may include, but are not limited to; human rights issues, matters of consultation and accommodation, jurisdictional issues, funding frameworks and policies, public and private service contracts, employment contracts, and a wide range of issues in the workplace.

Neutral Investigation

Neutral investigation is a confidential and non-binding administrative process, designed to meet the operational needs and requirements of an organization, in terms of assessing and mitigating risk related to cases of misconduct, including psychological and sexual violence or harassment in the workplace.

Arbitration Service

Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution where a neutral third party hears evidence from all sides and renders a final and binding decision. This process is typically private, less formal, and often faster and less expensive than traditional court litigation.

Work in Session
Choosing the Right Tools 
to Achieve Policy Objectives
A strategic plan fosters creativity, resilience and operational excellence.

It provides leaders and executive teams with a comprehensive, long-term framework for sustainable growth and socio-economic development, ensuring that human, material and financial resources and investments are relevant, beneficial and cost-effective.

Key benefits of a customized strategic plan include; long-term vision and focus, improved communication with internal and external stakeholders, enhanced financial risk and variance management, and increased investment potential for the common good of the community and its members.

Talks for All

Recognition Events, Lectures and Experientials

30Jun

Strategic Planning Session

30Jun

Implementing the Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention in Rural and Isolated Communities

30Jun

Operational Planning Session

30Jun

Rethinking Discretionary Transfer Payment Policies in Canada

30Jun

Business Continuity Planning

31Dec

Strategic Information Management

Co-Creating the Future
Exposure to the
Neutral Perspective
Rule-bound, man-made structures and systems can produce strong pressures for conformity, therefore killing the spirit of creativity, harmony and regeneration.

Consultation with your Third-Party Neutral is a means of avoiding cause-and-effect biases and tunnel vision, especially when making decisions of significant importance, that depend upon knowledge that can only be completely revealed in the future. 

Praxis Forum

'' The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Yet Seen.''

  • Jennifer Braga, B.A., M.P.A.
  •  Weekdays from 8h30 am to 5h00 pm Except Holidays