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Join us for a 2.5 day workshop on the Similkameen River.

July 25-27, 2023

This workshop will teach industry leaders new conceptual frameworks and strategies for building relationships with Indigenous Peoples that lead to mutually beneficial outcomes and advance our collective progress towards realized reconciliation.

Details

The Indigenous Engagement Institute is a collaborative project by Gwen Bridge and James Rattling Leaf Senior. The workshop presents a unique opportunity for leaders to be part of our collective synergistic effort to improve corporate Indigenous engagement.

The Indigenous Engagement Institute is a collaborative project by Gwen Bridge and James Rattling Leaf Senior. The workshop presents a unique opportunity for leaders to be part of our collective synergistic effort to improve corporate Indigenous engagement.

About the workshop

 We will provide an extensive learning environment over 2.5 days in the beautiful Similkameen Valley in British Columbia, Canada. The institute will fit you with the tools, skills, and knowledge to tackle the great North American challenge of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Together, we will understand best practices, examples, and new conceptual frameworks for building relationships with Indigenous Peoples that lead to mutually beneficial outcomes and advance our collective progress toward realized reconciliation.  By building capacity within yourselves and your organizations, you will be poised to be the change we want to see in the world. 

This workshop is for leaders who:

  • Need to lead their organizations into the challenges of reconciliation and seek to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Indigenous relations to achieve mutualistic outcomes.
  • Are ready to tackle challenges of thinking differently, being creative, and developing and implementing solutions to the necessary and challenging economic and jurisdictional inequities which the United Nations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action task us to collectively solve.
  • Envision a more equitable and sustainable society.
  • Want to learn and support their teams in the development of practical strategies for improved Indigenous–non–Indigenous relations.
  • Seek proactive productive solutions to responding to the challenges issued by Indigenous Peoples to develop opportunities for economic equity, sustainable economics, and reconciliation.

Outcomes

Through this workshop participants will

  • Gain knowledge and skills to develop more effective working relationships and partnerships with Indigenous peoples.
  • More deeply understand Indigenous processes of developing agreements.
  • More deeply understand Indigenous worldviews, including values, laws, protocols, societal structure, and what pragmatic steps in organizational change are needed to support the integration of these components into engagement strategy and organizational culture.
  • Develop an engagement preparedness plan to be applied to their own professional and personal development and organizations.
  • Expand networks with those also at the forefront of proactive, enlightened Indigenous engagement.
Testimonials
“You illuminated a path forward for one of the most complex social and economic challenges of our time.”
Christopher Nicolson
President & CEO, Canada West Ski Areas Association
"I attended this really amazing workshop yesterday! WOW!!!!! Highly recommend Gwen Bridge to bring your hearts together and dig deep and challenge colonial normative ways of thinking and moving to a real model of mutual respect and Dual Authoritative Hierarchical Framework."
Jolene Andrew
Indigenous Liaison Officer, British Columbia

What makes this different from typical training?

We are not trainers. We are practitioners in this space, with on-the-ground, in-the-relationship knowledge. We have come together for this unique opportunity to bring our deep expertise from the USA and Canadian Indigenous experience in productive engagement to you. We will conduct our work grounded in a land and culture-based experience, providing experiential applied learning opportunities. We will share learnings built from over 50 combined years of praxis, knowledge contextually specific, and the skills that support systems change. You will come away connected with a network of engaged leaders on a journey of building relationships to improve collective ecological, economic, and socio-cultural outcomes. Cree, Lakota, and smelqmix cultural knowledge will be shared. We will be on the territory of the smelqmix people and will have cultural experiences and knowledge sharing by local Elders and experts.
Location

Similkameen Wild

306 Sumac Rd,
Cawston,
BC V0X 1C3

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Dates

July 25, 2023

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

July 26, 2023

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

July 27, 2023

8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Registration

Registration closed

 

Capacity

Maximum of 17 attendees.

What’s Included

  • Accommodation,
  • food,
  • training,
  • workshops, ceremony,
  • guest speakers.

You are welcome to bring a  companion to share accommodation without attending the workshop please let us know and we can work together to accommodate this request. Personal travel to Similkameen Wild is not included. We recommend flying to Penticton or Kelowna in BC, Canada, or Spokane in WA, USA. Helicopter transportation can be organized if needed. If there are needs that prohibit you from being able to drive to the venue from an airport, please let us know and we will work with you on a solution.

Participant cancellation up to May 31 will be at 50%. After May 31, there will be no cancellations or refunds. 50% credit may be applied to a future workshop if another is offered.

If the Event is unable to operate, whether due to Acts of God, force majeure, pandemic, epidemic, illness, public safety, fire or state of emergency, or because of any other occurrence out of our control, or otherwise, the Indigenous Engagement Institute may cancel, postpone or terminate the Event.

Gwen Bridge Consulting Ltd. waives any and all claims that may arise against the Indigenous Engagement Institute or Gwen Bridge Consulting Ltd. for damages or expenses and agrees to accept in complete settlement and discharge of all claims, a 100% fee refund.

This workshop is composed of an unfolding learning expansion, please plan to attend the entire session, if you’d still like to come but have to miss some time, connect with us to ensure we can accommodate your learning needs.

Review the most up-to-date information about Travel Canada restrictions related to COVID.

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