Indigenous Experiences: Strategies for Building Healthy Inter-cultural Relationships
Do you want to build a relationship of trust with Indigenous clients?
Do you understand the present day impacts of historical trauma, guilt, grief and intergenerational pain?
This workshop will give an overview of the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and develop your general knowledge of First Peoples in Canada. Together we will begin the process of more deeply understanding how the work we can do related to the Calls to Action presented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And together we will address the issue of collective and historical trauma experienced by First Nations people. Facilitator Joe Elkerton will provide valuable insights towards working effectively with traumatized indigenous youth and their families that will change your practice.
Date & Time
Time: 9:30am – 1:00pm EST
Date: February 13, 2023
Cost: $49.00 (+ non-refundable Eventbrite ticket fee)
****Recording will be available to participants until March 13 2023.****
Workshop Content
What’s in a Name?
From Indian to Indigenous, the journey of identification
This part of the workshop will examine the journey of Indigenous communities from pre-contact onward through colonization. We will address the impacts of colonization and connection to identity, and how this has affected generational trauma.
The three “R” s”
Reserves, Residential school, and Resilience
Looking at three key areas of the Indigenous experience, we will address present day impacts of historical trauma; guilt, grief and intergenerational pain. We will look at how resilience and resistance have led to Indigenous people’s survival of colonization, Residential Schools and the Sixties Scoop, and the present day challenges of oppression.
Once we begin to understand the past we can embrace the present and begin to build a relationship of trust. Together we can move toward personal and collective healing.
Reclamation is an important part of collective healing. Through this workshop we will give thought to how the revival of original teachings and values aid in healing as Indigenous people use cultural and spiritual knowledge to address intergenerational trauma.
Facilitator
Joe Elkerton is an Indigenous Torontonian and intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School System. Abandoned by his parents and adopted by a white couple, his story of reconnection with his Indigenous identity and its challenges, which led him to life on the streets, is one all too familiar for many Indigenous people in Canada. Elkerton offers moving and impactful instruction about Indigeneity, community work, mental health, and addiction.
Email lyazar@georgehull.on.ca with any questions.