Workshops
Join Ts'ah Ts'ah in a safe and inclusive space as she guides you through sessions with compassion and authenticity, drawing on her education, research, and vast experience and knowledge.
Workshops for Relationship Building & ReconciliACTION
Transforming Lateral Violence into Lateral Kindness
Participants will learn how to identify lateral violence, unconscious bias and internalized racism, understand why these things exist, and learn how to prevent and navigate behaviours that arise as a result of these. Participants will have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the intersectionality of lateral violence and other forms of violence, and learn how transforming lateral violence into lateral kindness can lead to violence prevention.
Building Sustainable Relationships with Indigenous Communities
Through the lens of two-eyed seeing, gain valuable learnings on building relationships with Indigenous communities that are not merely transactional, but transformational, meaningful, culturally responsive and culturally responsible. This workshop is best suited for those working for non-profit organizations and in industry.
Workshops for the Classroom & Educational Professional Development
Understanding Educational Trauma
Using Indigenous sharing circles, educators will learn the historical and contemporary effects of colonization on education, and how to better work with learners that carry educational trauma that may be intergenerational and/or experienced first-hand. How we can shift our practices to help learners move forward on the journey to healing and resiliency?
Indigenous Governance and the Sacred Circle
Using traditional Indigenous methods, tools and protocols, learn how to create and enhance safe spaces within the classroom, run effecting sharing circles, create needs-based class charters and apply restorative justice to deal fairly and kindly with conflict. The teachings that come with this workshop are a great addition to any classroom and grade level!
A ‘make and take’ will be available for this workshop at an additional cost.
Indigenous Literacies/Modalities & the Visual Arts
This workshop, comprised of two full-day sessions, will look at multi-modalities and multi-literacies through a cultural lens, looking at art forms such as beading, weaving, drum-making, storytelling, painting and more to see how these can be applied in the classroom. Participants will be able to choose one art piece to produce over the course of the sessions (kits available at an additional cost).
Indigenizing Your Classroom & Practice
Come and explore how to Indigenize and decolonize your mind, physical space and practice in a safe space. Learn how to involve Indigenous community members in the classroom and school community meaningfully while embracing Indigenous multiculturalism in a responsible way.
Financial Literacy for Indigenous Youth
For youth ages 10-15, this fun, interactive workshop will cover ‘understanding money’, budgeting and banking. For older youth ages 16- 29, these themes will be expanded, and also look at how to build credit, how to avoid the temptations that can lead us into debt, how to save for the future, how we measure our values and how these align with Indigenous and Western economies.
Workshops for Personal Development
Indigenous Student Success
Explore your personal learning styles, time management techniques, healthy eating and other forms of self-love and self-care, how to map out goals for the future - all through a cultural lens. For grades 9–12, we expand on these themes, and look at note-taking, post-secondary preparation, and how to incorporate and celebrate their Indigeneity in various academic areas such as language arts.
Understanding Educational Trauma
Using sharing circles and other cultural methods, participants will become more proficient in identifying and understanding how our educational experiences inform our ways of learning and interacting with the world around us.
