In today’s busy world, most of us feel like we have little time to do everything that needs to get done, let alone take the time and space to delve deeply into matters that are important to us. With the intention of creating space to support learning, this mini course highlights a presentation offered by Rachelle Dallaire, Executive Director of Indigenous Perspectives Society. Rachelle’s “Reconciliation from an Indigenous Perspective” presents some important elements to strengthening relationships and actions towards reconciliation
With Rachelle’s permission and support, the capacity building team at PAN developed a series of questions and reflections to build on this learning opportunity. By taking a deeper journey here – whether you are an ally, an Indigenous person, or maybe you are questioning where you fit in it all – we hope you find this guided exploration helpful for you; to bring to your people; and to your organizations to strengthen knowledge by engaging collectively and listening and sharing with your team.
We present Rachelle’s sharing in segments, one in each short lesson. There are questions that correspond to each segment as you take in what Rachelle shares. There is also a lesson with community discussion prompts you can use for staff meetings, values discussions, program planning, and in programs with clients, as applicable. You will also find leads to the work of additional Indigenous activists, Knowledge Keepers and scholars for further learning. Even if you’ve seen Rachelle’s presentation before, there’s a good likelihood that you will discover more by watching again.
We estimate that each lesson will take approximately 15 minutes, give or take. You can complete the whole course in about 90 minutes on your own, though we imagine group conversation may take more time. You pace yourself lesson to lesson. We haven’t included group discussion timing.
If you would like to have a document to collect your thoughts throughout the lessons, you can print the Guiding Questions for the course. It is designed simply so it won’t use too much ink.
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