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Sínulhkay and Ladders

Decolonizing Practices Workshop

Is your organization ready to have meaningful dialogue about colonialism, supremacy and decolonizing practices? Are you ready to ensure cultural safety in your workplace?

Decolonizing Practices offers experiential training and dialogue facilitation grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. Our award-winning workshop features Sínulhkay and Ladders, a giant board game designed by Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee, Squamish. Since the pandemic started in March 2020, we have been able to alter the game and redesign our workshop to be delivered online. We're still decolonizing, still dialoguing but through ZOOM + Miro. We’ve condensed the workshop to a two-hour experiential offering led by Indigenous youth facilitators. (Make sure to complete our Cultural Safety Planning pre-work before booking.)

This is for you if…

  • You are looking to build a foundational understanding of decolonizing practices across your team

  • Your team has a spectrum of experience with decolonizing/anti-racist work

  • You are ready to begin integrating decolonizing practices into your workplace and beyond!

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Important Note

We work with organizations who have awareness of colonial impacts and who want to start answering the question “what can we do?” now. Organizations who do not want to rush into helping and contribute to harm. Organizations who want to raise critical consciousness and build a solid team-driven foundation for their anti-racism, inclusion and reconciliation plans. We’ve witnessed huge transformations in thousands of people from many different backgrounds and contexts. We are grateful to catalyze social change in service of undoing colonial impacts.

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The Experience

Digital Decolonizing Practices is experiential and heart-filled. We'll connect, dialogue and game play, and then dialogue some more! We'll also take short breaks throughout.

The Details:

Indigenous Youth-Led Digital Decolonizing Practices (Online):

  • 2-hour commitment

  • Up to 30 people

  • 3 volunteers play the game with avatars in an interactive digital whiteboard

    • The rest of the players engage in facilitated dialogue about the scenarios presented in the game

  • We’re using Zoom as our online platform, as well as using editable Miro Boards as collaborative whiteboard spaces: Here’s what you’ll need:

    • Computer with a microphone (internal or external)

    • Headphones recommended

    • Paper and pen for note-taking or a note-taking app open on your computer

 

*Optional* Decolonizing Implementation (Follow Up):

This is an optional add on to any organization or team that has participated in any of our Sínulhkay and Ladders: Decolonizing Practices workshop

  • 2-hour committment

  • Up to 30 people

  • Digital interactive Decolonial SWOT

  • We’re using Zoom as our online platform, as well as using editable Miro Boards as collaborative whiteboard spaces: Here’s what you’ll need:

    • Computer with a microphone (internal or external)

    • Headphones recommended

    • Paper and pen for note-taking or a note-taking app open on your computer

  • Follow up PDF Harvest Doc

More Details:

What is included:

  • Squamish Welcome Opening to start in a good way

  • Ancestral introductions & Territorial Acknowledgements

  • Why and How we do both

  • Decolonization: What it is, Why it matters (facilitated discussion)

  • Sínulhkay and Ladders board game

  • Decolonizing Dialogue

  • Giveaways & Takeaways - Harvest PDF Document will be delivered following the workshop

  • Closing Circle

Fees:

Youth-Led** - $3300 + GST
Optional Add-On: Decolonizing Implementation*** - $3300 + GST (this fee is additional to the initial workshop fee)

**This workshop will be taught by Indigenous youth facilitators, with support from Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee.

***Decolonizing Implementation requires the organization/team to have participated in a Sínulhkay and Ladders: Decolonizing Practices workshop

Lead Facilitator:

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Ta7talíya Paisley Eva — LEAD DECOLONIAL FACILITATOR

Ta7talíya Paisley Eva hails from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation village of Eslha7an and is based in what is colonially known as “Vancouver”.
She currently lends her facilitation skills to Decolonizing Practices, M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Society and The Fireweed Fellowship. She is also part of the duo behind MST Futurism, a project which focuses on uplifting and celebrating Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh visions for the future.

 Accessibility:

The conversation will be orally facilitated and the ability to maneuver a mouse online may come up but is not necessary to participate. While transitioning from slide to slide, we will let people know what is happening in text on screen. We will also be typing live, I'll urge that spelling and speed don't matter, but others will see your process if that's a barrier. We are happy to adapt where this comes up.

Unfortunately at this time, there is no ASL Interpretation.

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A Recent Testimonial for Digital Decolonizing Practices

"We worked with Michelle through an online Decolonizing Practices Workshop for our team and board of directors. Not only was this a great opportunity to build new connections between our team and board, but it was also an invaluable opportunity to examine our unconscious biases to understand how to be better allies of truth and reconciliation.When asked about the experience, one of our team members said this: "I really appreciated that I left the workshop with tools that I could implement immediately to start decolonizing my practice, I also really appreciate learning through play - when speaking about systemic racism and internalized biases people can put up defences but approaching it through play makes it much more accessible."

Ryan Hunt, Executive Director
Pronouns: He/him
BC Museums Association

 How to book a workshop:

  • Completion of our Interactive Introduction to Cultural Safety and a Cultural Safety Plan is a pre-requisite for booking a live session with Nahanee Creative - if you haven’t already done so, please check out our on-demand course.

  • Click the button below to fill out our form and upload your Cultural Safety Plan - we will get back to you ASAP to find a date that works

  • Sign the proposal and pay a 50% deposit to lock down the date and time

  • Fill out our Google prep form to give us an idea of where your organization is at before the session.

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