Culture Night – With Rick Lightning

Join us every Monday evening for Culture Night! Featuring new guest speakers every week, discussing teachings, medicines, and more!

“Who we are as humans and our relationship with physical, mental and spiritual”
Rick (Patrick) Lightning is a Mosom/Elder from Maskwacis, raised in the traditions of Plains Cree, Nehiyaw. He is a third-generation residential school survivor.
Through his consulting company, Lightning Camp and Associates, Rick has facilitated cross cultural training, youth workshops, grief recovery, and program assessments. He is certified as a mental health therapist/counsellor and is trained in suicide and gang intervention. Rick also has mediation, negotiation and restorative justice certification.

As a policy technician, he had assisted with the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples for approximately 25 years. He also has been a cultural advisor to Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, Wilton J. Littlechild.

Rick has been a Cultural Support Worker to the Indian Residential Schools (IRS), Mental Health, Aboriginal Youth Communities Empowerment Strategy (AYCES), and the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP) programs at Maskwacis. He also participates in the Deadly Dads (men’s support group), as well as the IHelti Alberta Health Research group.
Currently, Rick is the resident Elder, or Mosom, as he prefers to be called, for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta.

Come join us for Culture Night, Register today

Culture Night is open to the general public. Drop-ins are welcome!

Wabano programs are for First Nation, Inuit and Métis community members only. If a program is open to the general public, it will be specified. With open programs that have limited space, priority will be first given to Indigenous registrants.

For questions, please contact:

Raymond Soosay
Cultural Coordinator
613-748-0657 Ext. 317
cultureteam@wabano.com

Funded by the Indigenous Health and Wellness Strategy (IHWS)