AIBC Virtual Live Session – Indigeneity; An Overview of Canada's Past, Present, and Future presented by Organization Culture InitiativesÂ
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A 1-hour virtual live session for professionals who want to meaningfully enhance their understanding of Reconciliation.
AIBC REP Recognized | 1 Core LU | Indigenous Peoples Learning
event access details provided upon registration.
Reconciliation as a term is being used more than ever, but alongside frequency comes error and misunderstanding. This session is designed to empower individuals with a solid foundational knowledge to participate in the important conversations on Indigenous topics in Canada this decade, but aren't sure where to start, or feel like they've missed too much context to contribute meaningfully.
Facilitated by MĂ©tis educator and CCIB-certified Cultural Awareness Trainer Bryan Hansen, this session features the voice of his grandmother, a survivor of white assimilation, to anecdotally ground the subject matter. You'll leave with an enhanced understanding of modern terminology, context, modern systemic realities and the confidence to show up effectively.
This session covers:
Terminology
Unceded, Traditional Territory, and Treaties
The Indian Act
Residential School Legacy
Truth & Reconciliation
Systemic Racism
UNDRIP and DRIPA
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People
Organizational roles and takeaway actions for Reconciliation
A note on discomfort:
This session will confront you with historic and present-day truths. That discomfort is intentional and addressed directly because learning to sit with it is part of the work. This is a professional, safe learning environment.
(The session closes with an optional 15-min Safe Space Q&A).
About Bryan:
Bryan Hansen is an Otipemisiwak MĂ©tis reconciliation educator, CCIB-certified Cultural Awareness Trainer, and Principal Consultant at Organization Culture Initiatives. With a background in Surface Rights Law and an MBA, he has trained over 350,000 people across six continents. His belief that "Silence Breeds Stigma" drives everything OCI does.