Our Services
What we offer
Consultation
Helping communities and organizations improve or develop the services and opportunities for healing, leadership development and capacity building. Areas of specialization include prevention, culture & wholistic healing, transitional services.
Prevention Program Planning
Prevention funding is available to all First Nations Communities to provide prevention services and programming. We offer Prevention Plans to develop and implement the services and programs needed to help First Nations communities.
Therapy
Helping individuals through therapeutic experiences on the land, in ceremony, or lateral empathy. Participants learn various ways of coping and build positive self-efficacy.
Workshops & Programs
Community Prevention Planning Workshop
Healing Grieving Hearts - 8 Session Grief & Loss Program
Family Healing Program: Understanding Addiction & Recovery
Buffalo Riders - Early Intervention Program for Youth
Traditional Parenting
Men’s Wellness
Women’s Wellness
Self-Care and Ways of Healing
Cedar Baths
Powwow Demonstrations
Cultural/Healing Camps
Coordination of cultural/healing camps include bringing in additional knowledge keepers & elders to meet the needs and goals of the desired camp.
Community Prevention Planning Workshop
For years First Nations have been underfunded for social services aimed at prevention and healing. As a result of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal the Federal government is now providing funding directly to First Nations instead of Child and Family Services agencies. This workshop aims to help communities understand the how to address risk factors to contribute to addiction, child and family services involvement, and self harm through a model of prevention that promotes healing, meaningful connections, and healthy identity formations.
Healing Grieving Hearts:
8 Session Grief & Loss Program
Grief is the normal human response to loss and comes in many forms - death of a loved one, conflict in relationships, abuse, separation or divorce, etc. Grief and the conflicting emotions caused by loss are cumulative and most often have a cumulatively negative effect on our ability to participate in life.
This Program was developed by Edu-Therapy Solutions and is a powerful tool to help deal with grief; giving people a solution to their pain, and focus on a solution-oriented process to rediscover their ability to fully experience their lives. This process effectively eliminates the griever’s sense of isolation by actively engaging them in emotionally helpful and liberating exercises.
The Edu-Therapy process is a combination of educational/treatment components within eight modules. Each module has specific educational/treatment sessions where participants are actively engaged in the process. In each session, goals are set and achieved. Key concepts are introduced in each session, and are presented with interactive and participatory exercises, to facilitate the integration of topics and material. Each session will provide opportunities for active participation.
This program has been adapted to include an Indigenous perspective and incorporates Indigenous ways of healing.
Family Healing Program:
Understanding Addiction & Recovery
Addiction not only affects the individual, it affects the whole family. This program has been designed in partnership with Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, to help educate participants about addiction; how it can develop, root causes, triggers and more. The program also helps participants develop a greater understanding of recovery; how to support loved ones with their recovery, healthy recovery programming, as well as self care and supporting our own recovery and wellness.
Buffalo Riders - Early Intervention Program for Youth
Buffalo Riders Early Intervention Program was developed in 2011 and was initiated by Manitoba Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs Department along with Thunderbird Partnership Foundation.
First Nations youth are born leaders, with many skills and gifts to offer. Positive identity development increases hope, a vision for the future, and resiliency. The Buffalo Riders Early Intervention Program offers a fun and engaging way for youth to learn how to tap into their strengths. Buffalo Riders provides youth with early and brief interventions and support services to reduce harmful substance-using behaviour.
Traditional Parenting Workshop
Traditional parenting refers to a style of parenting that is often rooted in cultural or historical practices and commonly passed down from generation to generation. It is characterized by certain beliefs, values, and practices that shape the parent-child relationship. Traditional parenting approaches can vary significantly across cultures, communities, and individual families.
Colonization has had a major impact on Indigenous family systems, and has poisoned a large majority of our families with intergenerational trauma; causing further harm to our children, families and communities.
This Traditional Parenting workshop seeks to decolonize our ideas of parenting and address historical injustices to empower parents to restore cultural practices, traditions and knowledge.
Men’s Wellness Workshop
Men’s Wellness is the focus on establishing balance in our lives; mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually through addressing important aspects of men's well-being. Supporting growth by focusing on breaking down harmful stereotypes associated with masculinity while fostering positive behaviors and attitudes. By addressing topics such as toxic masculinity, healthy relationships, self-care, and positive role modeling, this workshop aims to empower men to embrace healthier, more balanced lives, ultimately contributing to positive change in their communities and future generations.
Cedar Bath Ceremonies
The cedar bath is a traditional cleansing ceremony conducted by women. This gentle and loving ceremony uses cedar to remove negative energy that sticks to the aura of a person and provides protection and healing on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. Traditional energy work is also used to further assist the individual of letting go of their grief and loss, traumas, stress, etc.
Like a magnet, cedar attracts positive energy, positive feelings and positive emotions which will leave the individual feeling light and at peace.
This ceremony is fitting for any individuals 13 year old and up.
Note: the individual is fully clothed, laying on a bed of cedar and covered with a star blanket – the participate will not be submerged in a bath.
Powwow Demonstrations
In partnership with Black Kettle Nation Drum Group and Champion Dancers in various styles of dance, we are excited to offer opportunities for communities to witness a powwow demonstration with teachings by the dancers on their style of dance and interactive engagement, which allows participants the opportunity to dance.
The Results
“Had such a beautiful experience this morning I never knew nothing about a cedar bath only in Sundance, I am very honored to have someone I knew to work with me and my kids, someone from home, I felt special, loved and in a good place, thank you creator for looking after me with your best workers helpers.”
— Blue Mitchell, Facebook post