REGISTER: Online Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) for Family Support Agencies Workshop
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BC Council for Families are offering an online workshop on Indigenous Cultural Safety for family Support Agencies in February 2023.
The workshop, at a cost of $200 per person, will run online via Zoom on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, from 9 am – 4:30 pm. There will be a lunch hour and two short breaks.
This workshop will provide a deep understanding of the origins, definition, foundational concepts, and current relevant applications of Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) which in turn can assist an organization to increase its capacity to incorporate ICS practices for working with partners, Indigenous partners, and clients specifically and among staff.
Participants will be led through interactive whole group and small group discussions and introspective exercises. The workshop builds on foundational concepts of ICS such as Relational Practice and Understanding and addressing oppressive systems, so that participants together can merge what is meaningful to an individual’s service provision practice and what might be relevant to their unique organizational settings. This can assist in an organization's commitment to address issues such as systemic racism and increase its Cultural Safety capacity including working toward reconciliation as outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian Residential Schools.
The facilitator for the workshop will be Harley Eagle, who has lived for a long time on Vancouver Island and who is of Dakota and Ojibway Indigenous heritage. He is an experienced consultant and trainer in the fields of transforming conflict, anti-racism, dismantling oppression, cultural safety, and trauma healing, and is an Indigenous Cultural Safety educator for the Regional Health Authority on Vancouver Island.
Registration for the workshop can be accessed by signing in/up as an organization or professional here on the BC Council for Families (BCCF) event registration website
Please note that the BCCF offers a disclaimer that the training is not guaranteed to run until their minimum number of registrations has been reached.