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Empower Your Community With a Decolonized Approach.

Blending Indigenous and Western practices to respond to trauma, grief, addictions, and suicide. 

 

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Culturally Respectful & Trauma-Informed.
Trusted by over 275 Indigenous Organizations.
Led by Indigenous Trainers.

Giwiidabindimin and Giwiidosendamin
A Culturally-Informed Approach to Helping and Healing

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Giwiiidabindimin means “we sit together” in Ojibwe, with a focus on responding to Trauma and Grief. 

  • Combines Indigenous and Western knowledge through a two-eyed seeing approach
  • A relational, reciprocal approach to sharing and understanding the impacts of trauma and grief

Giwiidosendamin means “we walk together” in Ojibwe, with a focus on responding to Addictions and Suicide.

  • Understand the relationship between trauma, addictions, and suicide, and how dominant narratives shape our responses.
  • Use harm reduction and life-affirming approaches to foster change and internal motivation.
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Want to bring these trainings to your community?

Want to bring these trainings to your community?

Step 1
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
Step 2 – We Build Connection.
Your trainer will reach out to tailor content for your context. Ensuring it is relevant and delivered with care.
Step 3
Step 3 – The Learning Begins.
Your community or team will learn practical strategies, giving them the tools they need to foster thriving communities.
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Why Choose CTRI?

  • We have select workshops developed using a two-eyed seeing approach.
  • Our gifted Indigenous trainers value relationship building and reciprocal learning.
  • Our trainers are trauma-Informed and acknowledge intergenerational trauma, from oppression and colonization.

What People Are Saying

“CTRI’s trainers are sensitive to the cultural aspects of mental health services within our agency, and are approachable and experienced in delivering a variety of training topics.”

-Anthony Andrusco, Clinical Services Coordinator, Weechi-it-te-win Family Services

Meet some of our

Trainers

Jaicee Chartrand

RPC, CIAS-II

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Cindy Deschenes

MSW, RSW

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Melanie Bazin

MSW, RSW

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Lacy Runner

MC, CCC

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Don’t Miss These!

We offer a wide variety of free resources developed from an Indigenous perspective. Feel free to share these with those who might benefit.

Podcast

Explore land-based wellness practices – a wholistic approach to healing and self-awareness.

Blogs

Weaving together Indigenous ways of knowing and the strengths of Western methods of understanding.

Spirit Guide

North American Traditional Indigenous Elder and Knowledge Keeper Wa Wa Tei Ikwe shares some of her teachings.

Resource Kit

Explore resources gathered in our Truth and Reconciliation Resource Kit.

Learn how to bring training to your community.

Contact Us Below!

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

Circle photo with blue background of Elliot Grisdale CTRI Indigenous Training Specialist

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.
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