Workshops & Presentations

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Community Workshops

Healing from Sexual Violence.
Intergenerational Family Session: Healing the Impacts of Residential School.
Maintaining Balance Through Self-Regulation.
The Path to a Good Life & Maintaining Healthy Relationships
Grief, Loss & Growth: Indigenous Perspective, Approaches and Practices
Women's Wellness
Tools for Transformation: Understanding & Healing Multi-generational Trauma.
Picking Up Your Paddle: 4 Week Pre-Employment Supports Program.

Organizational Needs

Returning to the Circle: Integrating Indigenous Way of Life into programs & practice.
Cultivating Team Wellness: Establishing safety, debriefing, resourcing, team building and empowerment.
Understanding the Intergenerational Impacts of the Indian Residential School System.
Wellness from an Indigenous Perspective: Indigenous worldview, values & best practices.
Restoring Balance: Frontline work after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Somatic ExperiencingⓇ and Indigenous Perspectives.
Coming Back to the Circle: The process of Decolonization.
Expanding Trauma-informed Practice Through Two-eyed Seeing.
Cultural Safety.
Creating a Safety Nest: An Early Years Trauma-informed Approach to Child Care.
Trauma-informed Approaches and Practice.
From Circle to Pyramid: Understanding the Impacts of Colonization and Cultural Oppression.
Cultural Approaches to Healing Trauma and Crisis.
Trauma & Addiction.

Conference Presentations

Returning to the Circle: A partnership way of life as a way to restore balance and regulation. Yuułuʔiłatḥ First Nations Education Conference, Ucluelet, BC.
Traditional Approaches Towards Grief & Loss. Panel Presentation to First Nations Health Authority 2024 VI Regional Health & Wellness Summit, Parksville, BC.
'What You Are Saying Is What Our Ancestors Knew': Indigenous Way of Life and Somatic ExperiencingⓇ. Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Ninth Gathering, Vancouver, BC.
Trauma-informed Approaches and Practice. Presentation to First Nations Health Authority 2019 VI Regional Health & Wellness Summit, Nanaimo, BC.
Playing in the Context of Culture. Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy Conference, Victoria, BC.
The Quuʔasa Way of Helping and Healing. Native Mental Health Association of Canada Annual Conference: Adaptation, Change, and Endurance of Indigenous Cultures and Traditions, Victoria, BC.
Facilitating connections with Indigenous clients. Conference of the Canadian Counselling Association: Connecting with Our Clients in the 21st Century, Vancouver, BC.