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Do you have family, friends, clients, who are dealing with the loss of a loved one?
Learn how to help them cope with grief and move forward in their daily lives. Provide the comfort and support they need during this difficult period in their life, knowing you’ve done what you can to help them along their path of healing.
About Our Guest Speaker
Rick Lightning is a Mosom/Elder from Maskwacis, Rick is 3rd generation Residential School survivor. He is also a mental health therapist, and has mediation, negotiation and restorative justice certification.
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.
This event will take place in our Grand Gathering Space. A light lunch is included.
For further information please contact:
Linda Heritage, Clinical Therapist lheritage@wabano.com or 613-748-0657, ext. 297
FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND WELLNESS STRATEGY (IHWS)