Truth & ReconciliACTION (Vancouver)

This program has been cancelled but you may be interested in Champions of Change, also facilitated by IndigenEYEZ, October 22, 2020 in Vancouver. Find details on Hollyhock’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic here.

Build bridges. Strengthen relationships.

The Truth & Reconciliation Commission urged all Canadians to work together to make the changes needed for reconciliation. The Calls to Action challenge Canadians to change perspectives and policies at every level, to confront hidden biases, and to address power imbalances.

Do you wish to cultivate right relations but are unsure where to begin? The Truth & ReconciliACTION workshop will share tools to respond to the TRC Calls to Action.

By looking inward and examining your own identities, intersectionality, and background, you will gain a deeper understanding of what you bring to your relationship with others. We will also explore your connection to the people in your life in order to relate with greater empathy.

IndigenEYEZ facilitators create a holistic pedagogical experience using story, land-based learning, and traditional teachings. They specialize in building trust to form healthy connections, a central point of leverage in social capital.

Workshop Outcomes:

• Learn the Indigenous history of Canada
• Understand intergenerational trauma
• Connect the dots from past injustices to present challenges facing Indigenous people
• Ally-ship 101: Self awareness about social location and identities
• Find unconscious biases
• Increase comfort with diversity
• Increase active listening skills
• Step out of the FOG – Fear, Obligation, Guilt

Indigenous and Non-Indigenous participants welcome.

IndigenEYEZ will also be presenting Champions of Change on October 22 in Vancouver.
Co-founder, Kim Haxton, will be on Cortes Island presenting Lateral Liberation on June 12-17 and IndigenEYEZ Leadership Essentials on July 12-16.

IndigenEYEZ co-founder, Kim Haxton, shares with us where the name IndigenEYEZ comes from and the importance of looking inward in tandem with outwards: