7 - 8 am: Pipe Ceremony, Taylor Institute 100

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

Dr. Kathy Absolon

• 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, 2nd floor MacEwan AND Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

• Room 1: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 140/148

  • “I am we”: The Whānau (Extended Family Network) Voice in Research, Ange Watson (30 minute Presentation)

  • Reviving the Hujra in Canada: Indigenous Pashtun Knowledge, Masculinities, and Intergenerational Learning in Diaspora, Dr. Aamir Jamal (30 minute Presentation)

  • Moderated by Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn

• 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)

  • Moderated by Meri Nathan

• 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)

  • Moderated by Monica Batac

• Room 5: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, MacEwan Escalus

  • University of Northern British Columbia, Natasha Blackstock et al. (30 minute Presentation)

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in Indigenous Health Equity Research: Storytelling and Voices of Resilience, Dr. Peter Mataira (30 minute Presentation)

  • Moderated by Lisa MF King

• 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)

  • Moderated by Zoe Kreutzer

• 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)

  • Moderated by Souad Alabood

• Room 8: Leadership, Identity & Advocacy, MacEwan Bianca

  • Mana Māori: An Indigenous Framework for Grounding Leadership in Cultural Strengths for Future-Focused Social Work, Sharyn Roberts (45 minute Workshop)

  • Moderated by Jennifer Maguire

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 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)

  • Moderated by Dana Chaulk

• Room 3: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 110

  • 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)

  • Moderated by Maria Osiowy

• Room 4: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, Taylor Institute 100

  • Sts’ailes Strong: Our Child Welfare Jurisdiction Story, Jordan White (60 minute Presentation)

  • Moderated by Bindi Bennett

• Room 5: Indigenous Practice and Ceremony, MacEwan Escalus

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. Moderated by Carol Tana-Tepania

• Room 6: Child Welfare, Kinship & System Reform, MacEwan Cassio A

  • Starting a Movement: How Inuit Are Working to Keep the Children Home, Gail Baikie and Patricia Johnston (30 minute Presentation)

  • Moderated by Lisa MF King

• 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)

  • Moderated by Terry Poucette

• 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)

  • Moderated by Jennifer Maguire

  5 pm: Guided Smudge, Outside Tipi (weather-dependent) with Blackfoot Knowledge Keeper Julius Hirsch

  
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