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September 21 from 2-4pm EST
A 2-Hour Introductory Experience for Educators, Helpers, and Systems Leaders
For more than 150 years, western schooling served as a primary tool of colonial assimilation against Indigenous peoples, and that legacy still lives in today's classrooms: in curricula, discipline systems, and assessment models that misread Indigenous students' trauma responses as behavioral problems. Trauma-informed care was a vital first step, but as Shawn Ginwright (2018) reminds us, it is fundamentally incomplete. It asks, "What happened to you?" Healing-centered education asks, "What is right with you? What medicine do you carry?"
This interactive 2-hour session introduces the foundations of Healing-Centered Educational Sovereignty (Nohwiʼilkʼidahʼ Biyátʼiʼ, Our Children's Medicine Path), a cohort-based certificate program rooted in a Two-Row Medicine Approac that walks Indigenous knowledge systems alongside western neuroscience, with Indigenous ways of knowing as the foundation. Participants will explore the colonial roots of educational trauma and its neurobiological legacy, experience the shift from trauma-informed to healing-centered practice, and sample culturally grounded regulation tools including somatic grounding and entering-the-silence practice. Because before attachment theory, we had kinship. Before co-regulation, we had ceremony. Before restorative justice, we had the talking circle.
You will leave with a taste of the medicine this work carries, an understanding of why a regulated, healed educator is the single most powerful intervention available to Indigenous students, and a pathway into the full program, offered as a six-month virtual cohort or two 3-day onsite healing experiences.
No prior training in trauma, psychology, or Indigenous studies is required. Come as you are, ready to sit in circle.
September 21 from 2-4pm EST
A 2-Hour Introductory Experience for Educators, Helpers, and Systems Leaders
For more than 150 years, western schooling served as a primary tool of colonial assimilation against Indigenous peoples, and that legacy still lives in today's classrooms: in curricula, discipline systems, and assessment models that misread Indigenous students' trauma responses as behavioral problems. Trauma-informed care was a vital first step, but as Shawn Ginwright (2018) reminds us, it is fundamentally incomplete. It asks, "What happened to you?" Healing-centered education asks, "What is right with you? What medicine do you carry?"
This interactive 2-hour session introduces the foundations of Healing-Centered Educational Sovereignty (Nohwiʼilkʼidahʼ Biyátʼiʼ, Our Children's Medicine Path), a cohort-based certificate program rooted in a Two-Row Medicine Approac that walks Indigenous knowledge systems alongside western neuroscience, with Indigenous ways of knowing as the foundation. Participants will explore the colonial roots of educational trauma and its neurobiological legacy, experience the shift from trauma-informed to healing-centered practice, and sample culturally grounded regulation tools including somatic grounding and entering-the-silence practice. Because before attachment theory, we had kinship. Before co-regulation, we had ceremony. Before restorative justice, we had the talking circle.
You will leave with a taste of the medicine this work carries, an understanding of why a regulated, healed educator is the single most powerful intervention available to Indigenous students, and a pathway into the full program, offered as a six-month virtual cohort or two 3-day onsite healing experiences.
No prior training in trauma, psychology, or Indigenous studies is required. Come as you are, ready to sit in circle.