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Indigenous Healing Practices

Presented by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Ph.D.

Live Streaming October 31, 2024

$242.10

6 Hours  |   Pre-approved for CEUs

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This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on October 31, 2024 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone. 

Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until November 30, 2024. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 5 – 7 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.

Registration will close on October 29, 2024. 

It is always important to look at healing as a wholistic process. The healing of the body, the mind, the emotions and the spirit must happen together although one may follow the other and move back and forth across time as inner awareness builds. There are multiple tools for learning that can be considered. We understand that not every Indigenous person has had the experience of working with elders, not everyone has been raised on reserve, or had the teachings offered to them from childhood. We appreciate there may be a searching process that is undertaken especially when there have been Adverse Childhood Experiences, foster or adoptive care, or other impacts that may have contributed to trauma and a deep need for healing. This session will discuss the need to appreciate everything about being alive, from the mundane and what you put into your body, to expression of the sacred and our spiritual selves. Each of us is so much more than what we see in the mirror every day.

  • Understanding the value and healing that comes from physical activities, dietary changes and access to traditional foods, herbs, removing sugars, alcohol, and other substances for a life well-lived.
  • Re-membering the experience of learning, listening, seeking, probing, reading, and engaging in dialogue with elders, colleagues, family, and those who are trained to stimulate and lift our intellect in a good way.
  • Deepening our understanding of our emotions (what they are and how they work) and our emotional states that can result from inner turmoil and/or perceived external stressors. Laughing, crying, and allowing our feelings to have expression in ways that heal our hearts and our souls.
  • Many of us have moved away from maintaining a spiritual practice – this doesn’t necessarily mean a formal or religious practice, it could mean appreciation of the wind on our faces, listening to the whispering of the trees, and when invited – smudging and attending ceremony, and sweat lodges to feed our spirit with good medicines.

Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Ph.D. served as Vice Provost for Indigenous Initiatives at Lakehead University for three years. Effective September 2016 she was appointed as the 1st Indigenous Chair for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada for Lakehead University and continues to develop pathways forward to reconciliation across Canada. Cynthia was inducted as a “Honourary Witness” by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2014, and is the Chair of the Governing Circle for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.

Cynthia was the inaugural Nexen Chair for Indigenous Leadership at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where she remains a faculty member and is currently the Interim Director for the Indigenous Leadership Program. She is also Chair of the Teach for Canada non-profit which recruits teachers for remote First Nation schools in Ontario and Manitoba.

Cynthia is a member and resident of the Chippewa of Georgina Island First Nation in Ontario and has dedicated her life to building bridges of understanding. She sees endless merit in bringing people from diverse cultures, ages, and backgrounds together to engage in practical dialogue and applied research initiatives. She is deeply committed to public education and offers as many as 150 key notes, workshops, and training sessions annually to a variety of groups, organizations and institutions. She teaches on historic and contemporary Indigenous trauma and wisdom, treaties and right relations, active youth engagement, and Indigenizing education.

She is always interested in mentoring young people and co-founded a youth project out of the University of Toronto, the University of Saskatchewan and Lakehead University. More information on the Canadian Roots Exchange (CRE) can be found at: www.canadianroots.ca.

RegistrationEarly bird FeeRegular Fee
Individual Enrollment$269.00N/A

All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD).

Group rates and student discounts are available. Please contact webinars@jackhirose.com for more information.

  • Canadian Psychological Association
    The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Social Workers (NLASW) accept CPA-approved continuing education credits

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