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BCNPHA is grateful to partner with Indigenous Perspectives Society to offer a workshop series focusing on Reconciliation, Cultural Competency and Cultural Safety.
Indigenous Perspectives Society (IPS) is a charitable and not-for-profit social enterprise that offers training programs and services that help foster a deeper understanding of Indigenous perspectives, cultural differences, and the need for self-determination. It helps individuals and organizations develop actionable ideas to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action . By creating excellence through training and leadership, we help to strengthen and build successful relationships in our communities.
To begin our Indigenous Perspective Series we will be offering a large group introductory webinar. You can then participate in the individual workshop to increase your learning and knowledge in a particular topic.
This 1.5-hour introductory session, will provide participants with an overview of colonization history in Canada from first contact to the social impact of residential schools on the lives of Indigenous peoples.
June 22, 2023 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Free
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Small group workshops provide an in-depth exploration into some of the topics introduced in the above webinar. You can choose to register in all the workshops or individual ones. You don’t need to attend the introduction webinar to attend the small group workshops.
In order to create a space that fosters conversation, interaction and reflection we will be limiting the workshop to 35 participants.
Please note these sessions will not be recorded. If you register and then are unable to attend, please let us know so that we can open up space for other participants.
Once you register for a workshop, BCNPHA will share your email and name with IPS who will then contact you with a session link and learning resources.
In this three-hour workshop, participants learn an overview of colonization history in Canada from first contact to the social impact of residential schools on the lives of Indigenous peoples.
July 12, 2023 1:00pm – 4:00pm
July 11, 2023
BCNPHA member $25 Non-Member $50
This three-hour workshop introduces participants to the key concepts of colonization, privilege and stereotyping. While encouraging meaningful relationship-building strategies with Indigenous community members and organizations, the learning is applicable to many areas in our professional and personal lives.
August 9, 2023, 1:00 pm – 4 pm
August 8, 2023
Participants explore ways organizations and individuals can build strengths in areas that impact relationships with Indigenous individuals, organizations, and communities. It is strongly experiential, learning from the knowledge of invited speakers and by participating in sharing circles according to local protocols.
September 6, 2023, 1:00 pm – 4 pm
September 5th, 2023
Rachelle is from the Montagnais people in lower Quebec. She brings more than 15 years of management and leadership experience to her work as Indigenous Perspectives Society’s Executive Director. Rachelle has extensive front line service experience that informs her leadership from her early work with at risk communities including women in the sex trade, corrections, and the homeless community. As an inter-generational trauma survivor, she brings a lot of passion to developing Indigenous Perspectives Society’s Reconciliation from an Indigenous Perspective training offerings, which include Cultural Perspectives Training, developed to support the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action.