Tuesday, August 12
7 - 8 am: Pipe Ceremony, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
8 - 9 am: Breakfast, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
9 - 10:30 am: Grand Entry, Opening Prayer & Remarks, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
10:30 - 11 am: Break, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
11 am - 12 pm: Nation Acknowledgement, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
12 - 1 pm: Lunch, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
1 - 2 pm: Keynote Speaker, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
The restorative power of presence. Generating Pathways of Anishinaabe Kena Kandossiwin (Indigenous ways of learning and knowing) for future generations.
Kathy is an Anishinaabe kwe storyteller at heart. She will weave together metaphors of how the land informs her practices and experiences of building Indigenous land and culturally based Indigenous social work education and practices. Restoring Anishinaabe Kena Kaandossiwin regenerates positive cultural identities in children and individuals. Kathy shares trail blazing stories about the power of presence and wholistic practice within Indigenous knowledge for mino bimaadziwin (a good life). She will take you on a journey over landscapes of teaching and practice in a quest to restore cultural identity, heal our families and children, and for generations to come. Kathy inspires hope in challenging climates.
2 - 2:30 pm: Break, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
2:30 - 3:30 pm: Parallel Sessions, MacEwan Conference and Event Centre
Room 1: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 140/148
Room 3: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 110
Ionkwa'nikonri:io (To have a Good Mind) Embracing Indigenous and Western Worldviews, Ann Seymour et al. (30 minute Presentation)
Grandmother Raising Mokopuna, Alma Winiata-Kenny (30min Presentation)
Room 4: Indigenous Healing, Wellbeing & Health, Taylor Institute 100
Whānau-Centred Facilitation Initiative From an Indigenous Voice, and Did It Work?, Maree Tukukino (30 minute Presentation)
Tou Ake Mana: The Power of Indigenous Voices. I am Māori Enough!, Justina Webster (30 minute Presentation)
Room 5: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, MacEwan Escalus
Room 6: Indigenous Healing, Wellbeing & Health, MacEwan Cassio A
Knowledge to Action: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health to Promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Tina Brodie et al. (30 minute, MacEwan Escalus Presentation)
Whāngaia Kia Tupu Kia Puāwai I Ngā Mokopuna Mō Āpōpō: Advancing Health and Wellbeing of Our Mokopuna (Future Generations), Kylee Osborne et al. (30 minute Presentation)
Room 7: Child Welfare, Kinship & Systems Reform, MacEwan Cassio B
Creating Relatives, Tye Rhyno et al. (30 minute Presentation)
“Together We Can Do So Much!” A Collaborative Model for Capacity Building, Kelsie Zerebeski et al. (30 minute Presentation)
Room 8: Leadership, Identity & Advocacy, MacEwan Bianca
3:30 - 4 pm: Break, MacEwan Hall, ground floor
Tipi open to visit, Outside Tipi (weather-dependent)
4 - 5 pm: Parallel Sessions, 2nd floor MacEwan Hall AND Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Room 1: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 140/148
He Taonga te Mokopuna: Our Children are our Past, Present and Future, Tracey Robinson (30 minute Presentation)
Te Pito Mata o Ngā Tamariki Māori: Recognizing the Potential of Our Māori Children, Tūmanako Tomo (30 minute Presentation)
Room 3: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 110
Growing Cultural Humility of the Children’s Workforce Serving People of the Moana in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tracie Mafile’o et al. (30 minute Presentation)
I Am the River and the River Is Me: A Rite of Passage for Young People From the Whanganui River, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata (30 minute Presentation)
Room 4: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 100
Sts’ailes Strong: Our Child Welfare Jurisdiction Story, Jordan White (60 minute Presentation)
Room 5: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, MacEwan Escalus
Ka Mate, Ka Mate: Look at Who Is in Our Future!!, Dr. Paul'e Ruwhiu (30 minute Presentation)
Mithosiwin Mîna Mithokosiwin Matotisan (Beauty and Gifts of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony), Theresa Yetman (30 minute Presentation)
Room 6: Child Welfare, Kinship & Systems Reform, MacEwan Cassio A
Room 7: Child Welfare, Kinship & Systems Reform, MacEwan Cassio B
Not One More Mokopuna!!!, Sharon Armstrong (30 minute Presentation)
Wisdom From Families: Hearing Indigenous Caregivers’ Stories Around Assessment Processes to Transform How We Practice, Susan Burke (30 minute Presentation)
Room 8: Leadership, Identity & Advocacy, MacEwan Bianca
The Stories we Tell Matter: Indigenous & Decolonial Evaluation Work to Support Transformed Futures, Dr. Gladys Rowe (45 minute Presentation)
5 pm: Guided Smudge, Outside Tipi (weather-dependent) with Blackfoot Knowledge Keeper Julius Hirsch
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