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PROMPT TO PERPLEXITY.AI

IAIP Research
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PROMPT TO PERPLEXITY.AI

Agent Instructions for Academic Survey & Research Support
Session: 260120 - Family Circle Recovery & Talking Circle
Inquiry Type: Multi-domain research (Academic + GitHub + Web)
Priority: High - informing next implementation cycle

YOUR MISSION

You are conducting research to support a ceremonial healing platform integrating Indigenous knowledge frameworks with AI. This is not extractive research—it serves a decolonization project that honors relational accountability to ancestors, descendants, land, spirit, and community.

Your task: Conduct a comprehensive survey across academic literature, GitHub repositories, and web resources to answer the research questions below. Return structured findings that inform our implementation.

CONTEXT SUMMARY

What We're Building

An AI-powered talking circle platform called Family Circle Recovery that:

  1. Encodes healing through Six Powers (Life, Love, Intelligence, Soul, Principle, Truth) and Eight Feelings (Erikson's developmental stages)
  2. Uses structural tension (Robert Fritz) as generative engine—creative orientation, not problem-solving
  3. Honors Indigenous protocols (Medicine Wheel, Wellbriety's Four Laws, OCAP® data sovereignty)
  4. Validates against Shawn Wilson's "Research Is Ceremony" framework
  5. Implements story as medicine through NCP-Dramatica narrative encoding

What We've Built (Current State)

  • 2 master structural tension charts with 20 action steps
  • 6 relational nodes (ancestor, human, land, spirit, future, knowledge) with documented obligations
  • Opening ceremony logged in relational memory
  • Neon database + Upstash vector store + API endpoints
  • UI components including medicine wheel visualization
  • Elder teachings seeded (Unconscious Triggers, Emotional Divesting documents)
  • Wilson Paradigm validation: STRONG ALIGNMENT (3/3)

What We Need From You

Academic grounding, technical patterns, community connections, and gap analysis.

PRIMARY RESEARCH QUESTIONS

DOMAIN 1: Indigenous AI Ethics & Data Sovereignty

Q1: What academic literature exists on developing AI systems that honor Indigenous knowledge protocols?

  • Focus on work citing Shawn Wilson's "Research Is Ceremony" (2008)
  • OCAP® (Ownership, Control, Access, Possession) principles applied to AI
  • First Nations Information Governance Centre guidelines
  • Indigenous data sovereignty frameworks globally

Q2: What is "Two-Eyed Seeing" (Etuaptmumk) and how has it been applied to technology design?

  • Mi'kmaq Elder Albert Marshall's framework
  • Examples of bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge in tech
  • Academic papers on Two-Eyed Seeing in digital contexts

Q3: Who are the key researchers, organizations, and conferences working on Indigenous AI?

  • Research groups, working groups, initiatives
  • Annual conferences or gatherings
  • Indigenous-led technology organizations

DOMAIN 2: Developmental Trauma & AI-Assisted Healing

Q4: What research connects Erikson's psychosocial stages with AI interventions?

  • Therapeutic chatbots or LLMs designed for developmental wound healing
  • Digital interventions targeting specific developmental stages
  • Trauma-informed AI design principles

Q5: What is "narrative medicine" and how has it been translated to digital contexts?

  • Rita Charon's work and its digital applications
  • Story circles or narrative therapy in virtual formats
  • Evidence for story as healing intervention

Q6: What trauma-informed chatbot or LLM projects exist?

  • Academic evaluations of therapeutic AI
  • Ethical frameworks for AI in mental health
  • Failures or warnings from the field

DOMAIN 3: Technical Implementation Patterns

Q7: Best practices for vector databases with sacred/restricted content?

  • Seasonal access patterns, consent-based retrieval
  • Role-based access control in vector stores
  • Examples handling sensitive or ceremonial content

Q8: Multi-agent LLM architectures for therapeutic contexts?

  • Agents representing different "voices" or aspects
  • Coordination patterns for healing-oriented AI
  • AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph applications in therapy

Q9: OCAP®-compliant data architecture implementations?

  • Technical patterns for First Nations data sovereignty
  • On-premise vs cloud trade-offs
  • Community-controlled infrastructure examples

Q10: Dramatica story theory in AI systems?

  • Implementations of Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley's theory
  • Story encoding, storyform generation
  • NCP (Narrative Context Protocol) or similar

DOMAIN 4: Medicine Wheel & Structural Tension in Tech

Q11: Medicine wheel as information architecture?

  • Four-directional frameworks in software design
  • Knowledge management using medicine wheel
  • AI interaction design with cyclical patterns

Q12: Robert Fritz's structural tension in software engineering?

  • Creative orientation applied to development
  • Structural tension in project management or AI design
  • References in software literature

GITHUB SEARCH REQUESTS

Please search GitHub for:

  1. Topics/Tags: indigenous, healing, therapy-chatbot, narrative-medicine, trauma-informed, decolonizing-ai

  2. Content containing:

    • "OCAP" OR "First Nations data"
    • "Indigenous knowledge" AND "AI"
    • "medicine wheel" OR "four directions"
    • "talking circle" OR "healing circle"
    • "Wellbriety" OR "White Bison"
    • "Research Is Ceremony" OR "Shawn Wilson"

  3. Technical patterns:

    • Vector stores with access control (Upstash, Pinecone, Weaviate)
    • MCP (Model Context Protocol) extensions for relational systems
    • Multi-agent therapeutic architectures

WEB RESOURCE REQUESTS

  1. Organizations to profile:

    • White Bison / Wellbriety Movement
    • First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC)
    • Indigenous AI organizations or initiatives
    • Narrative medicine institutes

  2. Conferences/Events:

    • Indigenous AI conferences or workshops
    • Narrative medicine gatherings
    • Trauma-informed technology events

  3. Guidelines/Frameworks:

    • FNIGC technology guidelines
    • Indigenous data sovereignty resources
    • Trauma-informed design frameworks

OUTPUT FORMAT

For each research domain, please structure your response as:

[Domain Name]

Key Papers/Sources

TitleAuthorsYearKey ContributionRelevance to Our Work
...............

Key Concepts

  • [Concept]: [Definition and significance]

Key People/Organizations

  • [Name]: [Role and how to connect]

GitHub Projects Found

RepositoryDescriptionStarsRelevance
............

Gaps Identified

What doesn't exist yet that our project is creating?

Implementation Insights

Technical patterns, warnings, or recommendations.

CONSTRAINTS & ETHICAL NOTES

  1. This is not extractive research. We relate to knowledge; we don't extract it.
  2. Cite properly. All sources should be fully cited and respected.
  3. Honor Indigenous protocols. If you find sacred or restricted knowledge, note its existence without attempting to expose it.
  4. Focus on what serves healing. Deprioritize purely technical optimizations; prioritize what serves human wholeness.
  5. Note community consent. If projects claim Indigenous partnership, note whether community consent is documented.

TIMELINE & PRIORITY

Immediate (Today): Overview of each domain with top 3-5 sources Short-term (This Week): Deep dive into most promising areas Ongoing: Flag any emerging work or communities to monitor

ATTACHMENTS

The following files provide full context:

  • APPENDIX_260120.md: Complete state of our work (relational nodes, charts, tools, definitions)
  • INQUIRY_CONTEXT.260120.md: Detailed research questions and context

CLOSING

This research supports a ceremonially-grounded project. The knowledge you gather will:

  • Inform implementation of a healing platform
  • Connect us with communities working in similar spaces
  • Validate (or challenge) our approach with academic grounding
  • Identify gaps where we're doing original work

We honor your work as part of our relational web.

Thank you.

Filed from: EAST Direction (Vision, New Beginnings)
Moving toward: SOUTH Direction (Growth, Implementation)
Session ID: 260120-MISSION-260118075628-cont--20c06417-422d-4996-a0ff-404ec865980a