Comprehensive community planning : learning from practice with the Haida Village of Skidegate

Comprehensive community planning : learning from practice with the Haida Village of Skidegate / by Krystie Babalos and Jessica Williams. A project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Planning) and Master of Arts (Planning). University of British Columbia, 2013.

https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/graduateresearch/310/items/1.0075781

Two UBC students teamed up to write this dissertation and it produced an unintended result that would be well worth a follow up thesis. It appears this is the world of planning in Skidegate as seen through the eyes of Babs Stevens, who acted as the main administrative tour guide for the students.

Babs, as regular readers of this blog know, is pretty much a lobbyist for the for-profit corporation known as Psychology of Vision and is under the supervision of the Spezzanos. Now remember, POV is not a church, it is not a religion, it is a for-profit enterprise run by two Americans. The defense that this is a religious belief does not hold water.  And, as always, we are talking about behavior, not belief.

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/10/spezzano-associates-limited-domestic.html

As the chart below demonstrates, the job of Chief Administrative Officer, which Babs has held for decades, is in a powerful place. We have documented on this blog how Babs has used this bottleneck position to further the agenda of Psychology of Vision as well as the drug-soaked cult of Erick Gonzalez. This chart demonstrates there are not a lot of checks and balances in this system. The potential for abuse of power in this scenario is enormous.

A "Certified psychology of vision trainer" shows up on one of these following charts as a "community asset" and the Ngystle Society is mentioned a few times in a positive light. The latter has been covered by Psiram:

https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Ngystle_Society

I would put forward the idea that Psychology of Vision be included in the "Negative impacts of contact," as well as Gonzalez (who could also be included as a subset in the "Drugs and Alcohol" box). Note also the placement of Ngystle.

A resident of Skidegate brought this document to my attention. Here are some of the accompanying comments, edited with only slight corrections and added URLs. I'll sign off and let someone closer to the situation conclude this post:

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Does the creator of this project ,Krystie Babalos and Jessica Williams, know about the Haida Health Hub feedback Questionnaire results?

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/12/haida-health-hub.html

I don't see any reference to it anywhere, this was a lengthy community in-depth study of what the Skidegate community had in mind for health, and it was notably quashed from public when many concerns of how "Ngystle" society and POV psychology of vision advanced trainer and CEO Babs Stevens of Skidegate exploited funding for high demand cult activities, which by the way are thoroughly documented for view on NEW AGE FRAUDS and PLASTIC SHAMANS under frauds (Chuck Spezzano).

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4179.0

Barbara Stevens has superseded the concerns of Haida citizens of the Skidegate Band in order to continue her investments and plans with continuing to conduct Psychology of Vision and continue relationships with perpetrators (Chuck Spezzano) POV Leader and (Erick Gonzalez) fraudulent "medicine" man who drugged participants with lethal doses of amanita brew and potent hallucinogenics of which she participated in many times.

Professional advocates such as chief of staff of our island hospitals and RCMP have given public warnings to our island residents of the high risk of being involved with these treatments. Public documentation with APTN INVESTIGATES AND CBC, OBSERVER NEWSPAPER, AND NAFPS is established.

Babs continues to push her own agendas for "healing". When Gwaii Trust was updated about Healthy Humans giving thousands of dollars to these "healing intensives and workshops",  Gwaii Trust discontinued Healthy Humans in 2010/2011 because of legal liability factor of funding harmful activities as mentioned.

Aboriginal Healing Foundation gave Ngystle Society $475,000. approx. to fund POV/Gonzalez activities. They too were unaware of what they funded when consulted about these activities. They responded by saying they assumed that Ngystle was following the guidelines but were not informed about their activities.

Barbara Stevens has blocked birthright Skidegate members from Skidegate Band Facebook for speaking up, but lets Chuck Spezzano, a noted fraudulent impostor of psychology be a member (a non native from the USA). She publicly accuses people of being evil if they don't agree with her.

[from a different email...]

To deliberately hijack and manipulate a researcher is disdainful and corrupt. These students were scooped up and used as slaves to document and report what Babs has deemed “her village, her money”.

No one has any breathing room in this report, Psiram Ngystle has thoroughly reported on the damage around misappropriating RSS funds to be indoctrinated with “new age fantasy existence”.

The values graph pg 91 showing ngystle as healing is a dirty insert to keep ngystle involved . Haidas using their own language already to misrepresent it’s original meaning (which was healing) but this name was used and abused and has bad connotations now in the community, seeing it posted on everything in this document is too obvious of it being pushed thru as embraced here.

I would like students and researchers to know that this dynamic of having babs dictate and oversee this CCP is a hazard to the members of Skidegate and serious consideration should be taken to avoid documenting life changing documents over a group of people. I find this research to be far too sensitive and now you can bet it was used to solidify the privatization of Skidegate Health center, as I see that the very same language that is reported : ask first, etc. Is what was printed on their annual 2015 Oct health fair flyers. So basically these students and their highly skilled organizational methods were put to good use and looks like 2 non natives outlined the future of Skidegate.

Whose town is this?

Should students be involved in these type of scenarios? Maybe UBC should just make Skidegate a dept of their “test the waters” for newborn researchers to experiment with and study again the results and then try again to see what works according to everything they have analysed here.

In the beginning it was higher education students helping in the research of plants, outdoor stuff, now it’s expanded into every part of the Skidegate members life.

Why is such a detailed paper of Skidegate available for casual reading?, like the citizens here are just for examination. I personally feel that the privacy rights of the members of skidegate have been violated with this paper, and studies like these are offensive due to exposure .

I have never seen in the last 7 years in Skidegate any process asking members if their community could have their lives analysed for a ccp for public viewing.

What happen to sensitivity around respecting FN people in the home place? It feels like every one here is a child under the warden ceo babs.

I talked to one citizen yesterday who said she felt that skidegate was in lockdown under ceo and nothing can be done due to the strategic placement into leadership roles that are binded to pov 100 day grads and power monger Tsaalth clan members. No one has a voice, and some of us has been missile targets for having one.

This has created a very obvious division with each community effort that becomes a power spot to control.

Wow, goodbye to the old ones  and goodbye to the new ones, we are officially a ghost village with this CCP.

Babs has arrived and fully succeeded at colonizing herself as an usurper of Skidegate. Someone should give her a white man’s badge from the missionary archival treasure chest, I’m sure some cultural collection in the Museum of Man in Ottawa that displays the destruction of the aboriginal peoples’ would still have a silvery or brass pin worn by noted head administrator of RS of Canada.

I just read a book last night called: Shamans and Religion by alice beck kehoe

Pg102

“Learning to search out information and evaluate them against their social and historical context can break down stereotypes so taken for granted even scholars unthinkingly perpetuate them. The deafening silence over embedded racism decried by Dr. Moses can be dynamited by critical thinking.” 

This is also a focus for me, seeing this misappropriation based on what has become here a new age indigenous disaster that has silenced the people and their spirit in Skidegate.