The Medicine Wheel, borrowed from the Plains Indians, is a physical representation of that circular view. They believed that everyone is born with intrinsic strengths or medicine. This medicine is added to the community to achieve a sort of balance. Imagine the Medicine Wheel as a bicycle tire and in every direction there is a spoke. All these spokes combined share the weight and the load. What happens when you start removing spokes? The wheel will weaken and eventually fail. We believe each person that comes into our program brings strengths and weaknesses. These strengths and weaknesses shape who we are and the choices we make. When you learn to promote one another’s strengths is when you will be at your strongest. The flip side is also true. When you start attacking one another’s weaknesses is when you and your team will be at your weakest.
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