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Join us for a two day professional development workshop with our special guest presenter Rick Lightning.
He will bring his knowledge and experience with a focused approach to help others understanding how to move from ritual-based thinking to ceremonial based thinking.
This workshop will:
- address the different emotions people go through based on their trauma;
- identify habits used to deal with emotions as a result of historical trauma, and how they are linked to our physical makeup (mind, body, and spirit)
- teach how to empower ourselves by telling our truth, and empower our children
- learn to identify symptoms children in care experience, and then identify our own emotional truth/history as parents and grandparents.
The audience for this 2-day workshop will be those people who deal with Indigenous youth (ie. teachers, front-line workers, health care professionals, mental health workers, etc). Our people have been programmed not to tell our emotional truths, and this cycle of denial needs to be broken. To know what is going on with our Indigenous youth today, we must ask uncomfortable questions, and be open to accepting their responses, and dealing with them.
About Our Guest Speaker
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)