Workshops & Circles

Not everything that supports healing or practice happens in one-to-one sessions.

Some of it happens in community.
In reflection.
In spaces where we can slow down, question what we’ve been taught, and reconnect with ways of knowing that have been pushed aside.

These workshops and circles are designed for practitioners, helpers, and community members who are looking for something different—something more relational, more grounded, and more accountable than traditional training spaces.

What makes these spaces different

These are not lectures.
And they are not traditional group therapy.

In many learning spaces, the focus is on acquiring more tools, more techniques, more modalities.

Here, we take a different approach.

In these circles, you can expect:

  • space to slow down rather than perform

  • reflection grounded in real experience, not just theory

  • attention to the nervous system and relational dynamics

  • consent-based participation (you are never required to share)

  • facilitated spaces led by trained clinicians

Spring and Summer Offerings 2026

The intention of this circle offering is to support helpers in centering our Indigenous ways of doing, being, and knowing in our work, while nurturing relational accountability, humility, and collective care. Below is some more information about the offering:

 

Session Topics

Week 1

  • Session 1: Re-Rooting: What Do We Mean by Indigenous Ways of Belonging?

    • Focus: Belonging as relational, land-based, and collective

  • Session 2: De-centering Modalities: Moving Beyond Western Clinical Dominance

    • Focus: Examining reliance on mainstream therapeutic models

Week 2

  • Session 3: Relational Accountability & Ethical Belonging

    • Focus: Responsibility to community, not just client

  • Session 4: Trauma, Dissociation & Colonial Harm Through an Indigenous Lens

    • Focus: Contextualizing trauma within land and history

Week 3

  • Session 5: Power, Positionality & Non-Indigenous Helpers

    • Focus: Practicing humility without getting stuck

  • Session 6: Ceremony, Culture & Clinical Boundaries

    • Focus: Navigating spirituality and ethics in practice

Week 4

  • Session 7: Consultation Circle: Real Cases, Indigenous Grounding

    • Focus: Applied integration

  • Session 8: Sustaining Belonging: Community of Practice

    • Focus: Integration & continuation

Format

  • 4 Sessions • 6-7  Hours each Session

  • Teaching • Circle Dialogue • Reflective Practice • Integration Work

  • Participants will receive an extensive, experiential Toolkit that supports and extends their learning for each session.

Timing

  • The Fridays of July 10-5 PM

Important to know

These circles are not therapy, but may be therapeutic.

You are always welcome to participate at your own pace.

 

 

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