About this Event
Created by Indigenous community for Indigenous community; this peer support training brings us back to our interconnectedness and teaches us ways to support each other in a good way.
Grassroots and heart centered. Our educational focus is on culture and healing, mental health and wellness, suicide prevention, substance use and harm reduction, trauma informed group facilitation skills, sexual health and healthy relationships, sacred self care, and community collaboration and connection.
Open to people who want to learn knowledge and skills to offer Indigenous community members. Participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement as an Indigenous Community Wellness Peer Supporter.
This workshop is also available for groups, non profits, agencies and communities either virtually, or in person by request. Please email Wolf Creek Consulting to inquire about group rates and options.
Email: [email protected]
Eight Weeks Course Outline
8 weeks online- Jan.15th- March 5th
Sundays- 9:30 am -12:30 pst
Week One - January 15th
Opening and Elders blessings ~ Meet the team ~ Introductions ~ Traditional ways of taking care of each other. Sacred roles in community ~ Purpose and value of peer support.~ Ethical considerations & limitations
Week Two - January 22nd
Indigenous mental wellness Medicine wheel - Walking in Balance ~ Connecting to culture and identity. Sacred Self Care- Self Love Ceremony- Connection to Land
Week Three - January 29th
Consent & ART ~ Healthy Relationships - Self expression~ Support and safety for LGBTQ2A+ loved ones ~ Self acceptance – Sexual health in community
Week Four - February 5th
Guest Speaker- Elder
Intergenerational Trauma Healing & Resilience
Week Five - February 12th
Cultural healing practices and protocols ~Traditional plant medicines~ Revitalizing community members~ Mutual healing in cultural contexts ~Protecting & advocating roles ~
Week Six - February 19th
Having difficult conversations ~ Holding safe space for others~ suicide prevention, Indigenous Harm Reduction – Substance Use ~ Toxic drug crisis & Stigma ~ Recovery paths
Week Seven -February 26th
Moving forward. ~ Making plans. ~ Collaboration- Building community capacity. ~ Indigenous Leadership
Week Eight - March 5th
Take Aways ~ Give Aways ~ Ceremony & Celebration
Meet Your Facilitators
Cheyenne Fox Tree-McGrath ~ MSW, RSW, LCSW
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
is descendant from the Arawak Nation (located in the Caribbean) on her mother’s side (as well as German) and Irish and Finnish on her fathers.
She is originally from Massachusetts (on the occupied and stolen land of the Pennacook) and her tribal community is Guainia. Cheyenne is a Jingle Dress Dancer and her Indigenous name given to her in ceremony is Yamoca Bana’ru (Two Feathered Woman).
She graduated from Salem State University in 2019 with her Master of Social Work Degree and is licensed as a Registered Social Worker (British Columbia Canada) and a licensed Certified Social Worker (Massachusetts).
Currently, Cheyenne lives and works on the unceded Coast Salish Territory; specifically the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
She works as a Clinical Counsellor at Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA) with Indigenous youth ages 13-24 who are using substances and also working through mental health concerns. She owns Two Feather Wellness, where she works as a Clinical Counsellor providing therapy, and as Consultant to organizations that want to have better practices around Indigenous People and 2sLGBTQ+ individuals.
Cheyenne is a fierce advocate for her communities and is never afraid to speak up, challenge, or question the way things are being done. She strives to leave spaces healthier and better than when she joined. In Cheyenne’s counselling role, she practices from a philosophy of meeting individuals where they are at and holding space for them to express and work through what they need. She applies Indigenous philosophies with a two eyed seeing perspective, practices healing through culture, and an integrated therapeutic approach.
When she isn’t working or participating in community events, you can find her binge watching true crime shows or walking along the beach with her partner and their dog Chickpea.
Learn more about Cheyenne : www.twofeatherwellness.com
Tonya Robitaille ~HRE, RCH, PWLE
ᐱᓵᓐ ᐱᒧᓭ ~ ᐙᐙᔥᑫᔑ ᑐᑌᒻ
Pronouns ~ she/her
Tonya is an Anishinaabe Métis woman with kinship ties to the Ktunaxa and Secwe̓pemc First Nations. She currently lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the syilx people of the Okanagan.
Tonya draws on her training from a range of modalities in her work with community including, Emotion Focused Family Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Play Therapy, shamanic counselling, herbal and traditional medicines, and land based healing.
She has worked extensively with day school survivors, street outreach with unhoused relatives, and with people healing from addictions and trauma. This work has been foundational to the trauma informed, heart centered workshops and healing sessions she creates and facilitates for individuals and community to honour peoples' healing journeys.
As an educator, she creates experiential and embodied learning opportunities, inviting people to actively participate and to apply their understandings to create transformative change in their personal lives, communities, and workplaces.
Deeply committed to empowered Indigenous community capacity building, decolonizing harm reduction and mental health, wellness and substance use, she shares a wealth of lived experience to share in her work with organizations like Foundry, First Nations Health Authority, Canadian Mental Health Association, Health Justice, and BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
She is a proud mother and titi (grandmother), a gentle friend to all animals, and spends her free time on the land gathering medicines and making new friends.
Event Venue
Online
CAD 355.00