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Catalyzing social change to transform colonial narratives & impacts with workshop facilitation, transformative organizational development, decolonizing workbooks & communication design grounded in Squamish Matriarchy

A Foundation of Cultural Safety as Pre-work

As a decolonial public service AND to support everyone to work with Indigenous Peoples in a good way, we have created a three part Interactive Introduction to Cultural Safety. This mini-course include three videos, downloadable PDF handouts, and links to other resources that will introduce you or your organization to the main concepts of Cultural Protocols, Cultural Empathy and Cultural Safety.

As a mini-course, we provide the inspiration, vocabulary and teachings you will need to complete our interactive Cultural Safety Plan - included as a download when you complete the course - which we ask you to fill out before booking workshops or consulting with us.

This new pre-work is a way for us to share pre-requisite knowledge while also filtering out organizations who aren’t at the level of decolonial commitment we are looking for. And most importantly, the pre-work will help us ensure cultural safety for the Indigenous team at Nahanee Creative and, hopefully, others too.

You can, of course, keep going deeper with Cultural Safety education but these mini-courses will set a strong foundation for your continued learning while getting you started in 60 minutes or less.

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Nahanee Creative Client Journey

Whether you are just getting started or are deep into decolonizing practices for yourself and/or your organization, we’ve mapped a few different paths you can take with us. Through our workbooks and on-demand mini-courses, you can start unlearning supremacy today. Through our experiential workshops and facilitated dialogues, you start with completing a Cultural Safety Plan (with our support) and then work with our team to schedule one of our award-winning offerings.

 
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Getting Started:
(for you and/or your team)

Start with our workbooks, on-demand courses and teaching graphics on IG to strengthen your foundation as you integrate decolonizing practices into your daily life.

Decolonize First, a liberating guide & workbook for peeling back the layers of neocolonialism.

Decolonize …, a recalibrating guide and workbook for unlearning supremacy & other colonial impacts (pre-sale, coming soon)

Cultural Safety, an Interactive Introduction, an On-Demand mini-course for individuals and teams

Territorial Acknowledgments, an Interactive Introduction, an On-Demand mini-course course for individuals and teams (pre-sale, coming soon)

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Strengthening Commitment:
(for teams)

Our award-winning workshops are designed for teams who have knowledge of colonial impacts, which we call “moving beyond neocolonial denial”, and who are wanting to take next steps with anti-racism, equity and inclusion.

Live (virtual) Workshops Including:*

Youth-Led Digital Decolonizing Practices

Medicine Wheel & Buffalo Visioning

Territorial Acknowledgements Awareness Session

Facilitated Cultural Safety (coming soon…)

*To book any of these workshops, it is required that your organization has completed the On-Demand Interactive Introduction to Cultural Safety and submit a Cultural Safety Plan.

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Decolonizing Implementation:
(for our current & past clients)

Our aim is to support organizations to answer the question “what now?” in this age of reconciliation and reckoning. We focus on decolonizing practices first which includes unpacking complicity in settler colonialism in a good way, grounded in Squamish teachings & matriarchy.

This is a new facilitated dialogue we designed to support organizations to implement your giveaways and move forward with decolonial tools to embed critical analytical frameworks into your organizational planning.

Decolonizing Implementation - Follow Up**

**this is an optional add-on for any organization that is booking any of our live workshops, or who have participated in our workshops in the past.

Please note, this facilitated planning dialogue is already included in the three-part Decolonize First Organizational Development offering.

Meet Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee, Founder & CEO

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Ta7talíya is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh decolonial facilitator and strategist, catalyzing social change to transform colonial narratives and impacts through design, communications and engagement. Her deeply personal and heart-centred work culminates her experience as: an Indigenous mother, a serial entrepreneur, an East Van punk, a Squamish critical scholar, a radical creative director and Matriarchal change maker. Her approaches & creations are woven together with the teachings of her Elders, her Nation, her Ancestors & her connection to the shared territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.

 
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Testimonials

“unique and necessary”

“Dear Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee,
Thank you for the years of learning, work and good writing and teaching that has resulted in a body of work that I found complex and accessible, practical and challenging - unique and necessary. Upon entering the course, I was immediately helped by seeing Decolonizing in relationship with Indigenizing, Reconciling and Self-Actualizing - and for the background materials you provided for each area. Thank you for your image with the 4 aspects. Learning in context is so important - and this gave me a much more complete picture to deepen my journey of learning.”

— Stina

“everything was given great care”

“I attended Decolonize First as part of my professional development work this year and it was such a great experience. The content was excellent and what really stood out was how the course was put together. It was so well thought out, utilized a number of different learning formats, shared voices, and offered a lot of collaborative learning - everything was given great care. I can't say enough good things about how impactful it was. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone embarking on personal or professional development to build their decolonial muscles.”

— Delanie Dyck


“She walks the talk”

“Ta7talíya Michelle is an awesome facilitator. What stood out to us the most was how she created a safe and open space to learn about complex and difficult-to-talk-about concepts. The activities not only challenged us but served to bring our team together in an incredibly meaningful way. She walks the talk, modelling leadership and care and showing that decolonization starts with each one of us. The Decolonizing Practices workshop energized the conversation in our office and provided a framework for reflecting on ourselves and our professional practices. Thanks Ta7talíya!”

— Marina Jozipovic, MES, Urban Systems

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@DecolonizeFirst on Instagram

Check out our teaching graphics, promotions and decolonial memes on Instagram

In my alternate future, I work with the Matriarchal Ministry of Land Back. We are a team of Elders, Traditional Knowledge Keepers, Decolonial Thinkers & Strategists & Meme-Makers, Indigenous Healers, Artists, Community Planners, Lawyers & Architects. We have been given buildings, to redesign for our work, salaries & benefits, time for ceremony & visioning, and authority supported by law. We facilitate & negotiate Land Back from large-scale projects like the return of crown lands to Host Nations to supporting settlers to pay reparations on the money they’ve made on Indigenous Land. We share teachings with everyone who wants to live in good relations, embodying the sacred laws of the land they occupy. Each position in our organization, hosts & trains an Indigenous youth mentee who advises the direction of the work while also preparing to eventually take over. “Degrees” are earned in-house. What I’m saying is social change requires r
Nahanee Creative Inc challenges all businesses operating in Coast Salish Territory to meet or beat our $700 donation to #supportthe700 Team 700 Indigenous Youth Boxing Team needs financial support, now. This youth-led, youth-benefiting Indigenous Org has lost their funding and set up a go fund me, link in bio. Post images, quotes & text shared with permission from @ivyrichardson (I’m not sure who would cut funding in such a time of grieving for Indigenous Peoples when access to wellness & community is essential & critical. This fundraiser is close to my heart. I’ve been admiring the access & commitment Ivy & Team 700 have been sharing. I’m honoured to support their work. Boxing has been important in my Squamish family for a few generations now. We’ve been wanting to set up a Vancouver Indigenous Youth boxing gym & team but let’s get our relations in Snuneymuxw secure in their operations first.) Pasted from the original post: T
Our very own @paisleyeva has a line of tote bags and also prints of her art that are going to be available for purchase on our website this evening at 5pm PST - so go check it out because the work is so beautiful and also let’s always be supporting Indigenous youth!
This hour-long interactive introduction is hosted on the shared territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples to share: - actions you can take, words you can say, ideas that you can unlearn when responding to Anti-Indigenous Oppression - tools to disrupt & de-escalate while still taking care of yourself - skills for remaining grounded and safe in unsafe situations De-escalation reduces the intensity of conflict or potentially violent situation. In this interactive introduction Kota and Ta7taliya-men will share how to further your commitment from ally to ally-accomplice. You’ll learn tools to de-escalate Anti-Indigenous oppression when you see it, while still keeping yourself safe and grounded. Sliding scale $40 to $80 with community comps available for kin, please email. Link to Eventbrite in bio.
Please join us in welcoming Kota to the Nahanee Creative decolonial facilitation team! Kota Gallipeau is a Transgender, Two Spirit Kanien'keha:ka/French youth worker and DJ based in so-called 'Vancouver'. Since moving to the West Coast in early 2016 he has been involved in Indigenous queer youth projects, curated youth events and workshops and participated in multiple frontline land defence actions. Grounding and centring his work around his teachings and relations to what it means to be a Trans, Two Spirit person, navigation Settler Colonialism and harmful cis-heteronormativity. Kota strives to be accountable to his communities and provide dialogue, opportunity, platforms and creative safe spaces for Indigenous youth and relatives to thrive and be joyous. Photo by @jamieleighgonz
We’re bringing back one of our faves! Because decolonizing in community is so much better! Join Us. We’ll meet as a community of fourty folx committed to synthesizing the unlearning activities and decolonizing practices from “Decolonize First, a liberating guide & workbook for peeling back the layers of neocolonialism” (the first workbook). Each session features deep-dive teachings and creative interactive opportunities including small groups and solo workbook time to apply the concepts to your social change work. You’ll also meet Indigenous changemakers who will drop in to share decolonial pep talks that shine more light on how Decolonizing First looks in real life settings. The Details. The seminar starts on September 8, 2021! We will meet every Wednesday for four weeks from 9:30a to 11:30a Pacific, online via zoom (September 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th 2021). The sessions are recorded and accessed through our online course space in case you h
She’s the first in three generations of our family to not be taken into “care” or away to “school” because of our race. I’m so grateful to have raised her without church or state intervention. On my own, in a mother-daughter family because I never identified as a single parent with all kinds of meanings that had nothing to do with who we are. We belong to each other, to our territory & Nations. We belong to our urban Indigenous Kin I lovingly call East Van Nation. We belong to a community of Indigenous mother-led families fighting & learning & healing & loving our ways through colonialism together, never single. We went away to the mountains to regenerate this weekend. We saw baby bears & their mama. We laughed & swam & talked so much. She makes me so proud. We filled ourselves back up after feeling really depleted. Cycling back to restart our work tomorrow in a good way. I’m so fortunate to work with her now,
Decolonizing Accountability for yourself is foundation work in workbook two and IRL! Here’s an example of how to apply that work as a decision-making tool about whether or not to #cancelcanadaday [image descriptions in alt text] Feel free to share with attribution if this is meaningful & helpful. Ta7 💪🏽❤️