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Certificate Programs with Decolonized Practices

Choose from two five-day, in-person, co-facilitiated retreats that weave together Indigenous and Western approaches to healing and support.

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  • Culturally Respectful & Trauma-Informed

  • Trusted by over 275 Indigenous Organizations

  • Led by Indigenous Facilitators

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Giwiidabindimin

Responding to Trauma and Grief

(“We sit together”)

Focus: Trauma and grief support.

Topics include: the impacts of trauma, common grief responses, and practical support strategies.

What You’ll Learn:

Practical tools and strategies for supporting others through trauma and grief, helping them understand these experiences so you can be an effective support.

Cultural competency and how to integrate Indigenous perspectives on trauma and grief, promoting a
decolonized approach to mental health support.

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Giwiidosendamin

Responding to Addictions and Suicide

(“We walk together”)

Focus: Addiction support and suicide prevention and intervention.

Topics include: counselling skills, harm reduction, recovery capital, and suicide intervention.

What You’ll Learn:

Addictions and suicide support skills that incorporate practical harm reduction strategies and approaches to suicide intervention and support.

A wholistic approach to wellness that incorporates body, mind, relationships, and spirituality, to ensure comprehensive support for those experiencing addiction and/or suicidal ideation.

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Our Approach

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You’re not just learning, these are opportunities to connect and learn practical support skills.

  • Cultural and community-rooted practices: Smudging, sharing circles, and moments of celebration are woven throughout, creating space for reflection, connection, and joy.
  • Two-eyed seeing perspective: Both programs integrate Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall’s concept of two-eyed seeing, blending Indigenous and Western understandings of mental health support.
  • Co-facilitation: Programs are led by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous facilitators, offering a balanced learning environment.
  • Relational and reciprocal learning: You’ll be invited into a space of mutual support, where learning is rooted in relationship, story, and shared experience.

Is This Program for Me?

These programs are for anyone who wants to learn culturally relevant, trauma-informed approaches to helping and healing. Whether you’re a counsellor, social worker, teacher, or simply someone people come to for support, these programs are for you.

There is no need to take one program before the other, however we recommend you experience both!

 

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Want to Bring These Trainings to Your Community?

Step 1: Talk With Us

Our coordinators will understand your community or organization’s needs and find or customize the right training for you.

Step 2: We Build Connection

Your facilitator will reach out to tailor content for your context. Ensuring it is relevant and delivered with care.

Step 3: The Learning Begins

Your community or team will learn practical strategies, giving them the tools they need to foster thriving communities.

Let’s Talk
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Will I Receive a Certificate?

Yes! We want you to proudly showcase all your hard work!

 

 

Contact Us for Your Training Needs

Learn how we can bring training to your community.

We Do Not Provide Crisis Counselling. If you are in crisis, please call or text the number 988 to receive immediate support.

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Elliot Grisdale

Indigenous Training Specialist
[email protected]
204-452-9199 ext. 112

Statement of Reconciliation

As we walk the path of reconciliation, we are mindful of the connections we share with all our relatives. We understand that these connections are impacted by colonization and that there is trauma in our relationships and to the land and Indigenous ways of life. We commit to listening and learning from our relationships, and to be guided by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
We acknowledge that our office stands on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory. These are the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are grateful to our host nations.