NAFFA’s Method

Our cultural approach often moves us away from some modern treatment modalities that focus on medical objectives that are rooted in illness, sickness, or dysfunction. We take the position that the great majority of people are not ill, as generally believed. We acknowledge that there are some who are truly ill where special assistance is required. However, we believe–and clinical research confirms–that most people have been misdirected, misguided, misled, and misinformed.

As a result, many bad and destructive habits have been taught and promoted by family members, friends, the community and society at large through encouraging negative behavior and bad role models. The models, television, and music industries have contributed to moving us away from our rich and vibrant Native heritage. These learned bad and destructive habits have caused much pain and sorrow in the lives of many people. One survey of over 1,000 fathers found that the vast majority of them suffered from lowered confidence and beliefs and fathering due to the media and the culture at large.

NAFFA believes that fathers, in partnership with mothers, must take the lead in making the necessary adjustments to head in a new direction with correct information based on true and proven principles. We are simply bringing positive changes. We must be a forward-thinking, forward-looking, and forward-moving people. We cannot live in or dwell on the past. Experts have called this having a balanced time perspective where the past, present, and future are in harmony.