Indigenous Trauma & Equity Informed Practice

This session is for organizations wanting to support safer services and professional practice with Indigenous clients, colleagues, partners and communities. 

The course aims at expanding our social perceptions on the missing context not usually covered in other ‘trauma-informed’ workshops. It centers Indigenous perspectives on the change required to go beyond being “informed” and to move towards culturally safer and equity-oriented organizations and services.

Main learning outcomes:

• Explore the relationship between colonialism, state violence against

• Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous-specific trauma today

• Identifying common trauma-responses in the workplace environment

• Assembling list of strategies to respond to trauma in a culturally safe way

• Embedding equity-oriented approaches to working with Indigenous peoples