Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps
The 12 Steps placed in a circle on the Medicine Wheel, grounded in the Cycle of Life and the Four Laws of Change. Separate programs for men, for women, and for youth ages 13 to 21.
Find a Meeting
Find a Wellbriety meeting near you
Search your city to see Wellbriety circles near you, with days, times, and places. Most pins come from the White Bison public circle directory and a few from local community listings. Schedules change, so always check with the circle host before you go.
Search your city
More ways to find a circle
Listings come from the public White Bison circle directory plus community sources, and each one links back to where it was found. Wellbriety Nation does not host meetings and cannot guarantee individual schedules. If nothing is close to you, White Bison can help you start a circle of your own.
Browse
Browse meetings by province or state
Prefer a list to a map? These pages list the circles in plain text, with the schedule, venue and source for each one. Meeting list last updated October 10, 2026.
Canada
- Alberta 15 circles
- British Columbia 12 circles
- Saskatchewan 8 circles
- All of Canada 44 circles
United States
- Alaska 5 circles
- Arizona 7 circles
- California 23 circles
- Maine 7 circles
- Michigan 8 circles
- Minnesota 10 circles
- Montana 10 circles
- Oklahoma 14 circles
- Oregon 22 circles
- Utah 5 circles
- Washington 11 circles
- Wisconsin 5 circles
- All of the United States 150 circles
The Foundation
The Four Laws of Change
White Bison teaches these four laws as the roots of healing, for one person, for a family, and for a whole community.
1
Change is from within
Healing begins inside the person, inside the family, inside the community. No one can be forced into wellness.
2
Development must be preceded by a vision
A community that can see a healed future can walk toward it. Vision comes first, then the work.
3
A great learning must take place
A community heals when its people learn together. Culture, language, ceremony, and story all belong in that learning.
4
You must create a healing forest
A healed tree returned to a sick forest gets sick again. The whole forest, the whole community, must become the healing place.
Programs and Symbols
The teachings that carry the medicine
Programs and symbols of the Wellbriety Movement, carried by White Bison since its founding in 1988 into communities across Canada and the United States.
Mending Broken Hearts
A three step process for healing grief, loss, and intergenerational trauma: the anger, guilt, shame, and fear passed down from one generation to the next.
Warrior Down and Recovery Coach
Peer to peer recovery support for Native people returning from treatment or incarceration. Relapse prevention, community reintegration, and a relative who does not give up on you.
The Sacred Hoop
A physical hoop blessed by Elders in 1995 that has traveled more than 200,000 miles from community to community, carrying four gifts wherever it goes.
100 Drum Communities
Communities that commit to the White Bison community development process and to a shared vision of wellness for their people.
The National Wellbriety Drum
The heartbeat of the movement, present at national Wellbriety gatherings. When the drum sounds, the people remember that recovery is something we do together.
Since 1995
The Sacred Hoop carries four gifts
Blessed by Elders and carried across Turtle Island, the Sacred Hoop of 100 Eagle Feathers brings the same four gifts to every community that receives it.
Healing
For the person, the family, and the community.
Hope
That the next seven generations will be born into wellness.
Unity
Nations standing together, one hoop, many peoples.
The Power to Forgive
The power to forgive the unforgivable.
200,000+
miles
miles
The distance the Sacred Hoop has traveled from community to community since Elders first blessed it, carrying the message that culture is prevention and healing is possible.
The Directory
200 Nations and the strengths they carry
100 First Nations across Canada and 100 Tribal Nations across the United States, with the cultural strengths each carries and the Wellbriety teachings their traditions speak to. Search, filter, and visit each nation directly.
Country
Teaching
Population figures are approximate enrollment and registered membership numbers gathered from public sources, shown to convey scale only. Teaching tags reflect how each nation's publicly shared cultural strengths align with Wellbriety programs; they do not imply formal affiliation with White Bison. Corrections are welcome and honored. Send them to inquiry@internationalwebpro.com.
Questions
About Wellbriety meetings
What is a Wellbriety meeting?
A Wellbriety meeting, often called a Wellbriety circle or talking circle, is a recovery gathering that joins the 12 Steps with Indigenous teachings: the Medicine Wheel, talking circles, and community. Some circles include ceremony. Wellbriety means wellness plus sobriety, living a sober life balanced emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
How do I find a Wellbriety meeting near me?
Use the meeting map on this page: search your city and it shows Wellbriety circles near you with their meeting days, times, and locations, drawn mostly from the White Bison public directory, plus a few local listings. Always confirm the schedule with the circle host before attending, because times change.
Are Wellbriety meetings only for Indigenous people?
Many circles welcome anyone seeking healing, including family members and supporters, while some are held for specific groups such as women, men, or youth. Each circle sets its own availability, so check the listing and confirm with the host.
Is Wellbriety connected to AA?
Wellbriety adapts the 12 Steps into a culturally grounded path developed by White Bison, Inc., placing the steps on the Medicine Wheel and rooting recovery in Indigenous teachings. It is its own movement, and some people attend both Wellbriety and AA.
About This Site
Honoring the movement
The Wellbriety Movement is the life work of White Bison, Inc., based in Colorado Springs and founded in 1988 by Don Coyhis of the Mohican Nation. Its mission is culturally based healing for the next seven generations of Indigenous people.
Wellbriety Nation is an independent educational resource built in respect and gratitude for that work. We are not affiliated with White Bison. For official programs, training, meetings, and materials, please visit whitebison.org.
If this site helps one relative find one meeting, one teaching, or one reason to keep walking the red road, it has done its work.