Past Sessions

March 20th, 2025 – Disconnect to Reconnect with Vanessa and Ariana from Decolonize and Rize

Email, social media, and other online platforms keep us constantly plugged in to the outside world. In this circle participants will reflect on simple ways to disconnect from the digital world so they can reconnect with themselves. We will also explore accessible ways to cultivate a deeper connection to the land regardless of where one […]

February 25th, 2024 – Art and The Power of Presence with Jaime Black-Morsette

This session will centre the power of creative, collective action in public spaces to amplify marginalized voices. Focusing on The REDress Project and its impact on grassroots community organizing and looking into other women/2S led community art action projects that disrupt colonial narratives by reclaiming power and place. Thank you for your interest and participation! […]

March 11th, 2025 – Indigenizing Kidney Research Through Relationality and Kindness: A Can-SOLVE CKD Network Approach with Catherine Turner and Jocelyn Jones

In recognition of March being Kidney Health Month in Canada and World Kidney Day happening on March 13, the Can-SOLVE CKD Network will explore the ethical and collaborative approaches to Indigenizing kidney research, focusing on relationality and kindness. We will discuss the importance of relationality, building trust, and fostering community engagement. In addition we will […]

February 18th, 2025 – Refusing the Diversity Problem: Liberalism, Genomics, and Indigenous Critique with Dr. Jessica Kolopenuk

The “genomic diversity problem” in the field of medical genetics and precision health research reflects an enduring colonial logic tied to liberal identity/difference politics, which prioritize inclusion and representation over substantive engagement with Indigenous sovereignties on their own terms. This paper critiques diversity initiatives in genomics, arguing that they perpetuate colonial structures by framing Indigeneity […]

January 24th, 2025 – Uplifting Indigenous Knowledge and Culture via Graphic Recording or Witnessing with Michelle Buchholz

Michelle Buchholz has built her practice up to incorporate her own Wet’suwet’en ways of knowing and being and refers to graphic recording as witnessing. She has joined hundreds of gatherings to witness her client’s stories, truths, successes and hardships, most of which being with Indigenous communities. She will share her witnessing methodology and how visuals […]

January 14th, 2025 – Red River Jigging: Our Physical, Mental, Social, and Cultural Health with Dr. Heather J. A. Foulds and Mr. Scott Duffee

The Red River Jig is a Métis dance and fiddle tune holding an important place in Métis and many other Indigenous cultures and histories. This dance has important potential for improving health, reconnecting with culture and spirituality, and building community. Much more than exercise, this dance engages physical, mental, social, and cultural health. Thank you […]

December 12th, 2024 – Engaging with Coming Faces through the past: transgenerational conversations through tangible and intangible knowledges with Dr. Talena Atfield

Dr. Atfield will present a series of community-based workshops held at Six Nations that bring information held in museums and archives back into community practice to promote regeneration and cultural connections with past and future generations. Thank you for your interest and participation! This session’s video is now available for viewing. Thank you to everyone […]

November 28th, 2024 – Restoring Balance: A decolonized approach to burnout prevention and recovery with Vanessa and Ariana from Decolonize and Rize

Burnout can have significant consequences for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. In this circle, we will explore the early signs of burnout and ways we can begin to mitigate its impacts. We look at burnout through both an individual and organizational lens, along with sharing practical tools, tips, and reflections team members can […]

December 4th, 2024 – Beadwork is Medicine: Strengthening our Communities with Tammy Wolfe

Beadwork can positively impact Indigenous peoples’ mental, emotional, physical and spiritual healing from the impacts of intergenerational traumas, due to negative systemic impacts. Beadwork can be utilized and practiced to find healing on both an individual and communal level because it helps to strengthen Indigenous peoples’ identities through the use of storytelling, mastery, learned leadership […]

November 12th, 2024 – Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law: Recognition and Affirmation as Reconciliation with Dr. Leo Baskatawang

Dr. Leo Baskatawang will discuss why the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 is codifying its own education law, how an Anishinaabe education system might differ from Canada’s public education system, and what Canadian governments must do to recognize and affirm localized Indigenous laws in the spirit of reconciliation. Thank you for your interest and […]