Indigenous Cultural
Safety
We believe in grounding all of our work in care, and this is why we start with cultural protocols, empathy, and safety. Examine the ways dominant culture affects your organization, and unlearn harmful patterns that are unconsciously affecting your team.
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Cultural Protocols Video
Introducing Cultural Protocols, a set of guidelines we can follow when we interact with and discuss members of other cultures.
Introducing Cultural Protocols, a set of guidelines we can follow when we interact with and discuss members of other cultures.
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Cultural Protocols Definitions
Definitions you should learn, to help you unlearn anti-indigenous racism and work toward Cultural Safety.
Definitions you should learn, to help you unlearn anti-indigenous racism and work toward Cultural Safety.
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Cultural Empathy Video
It is important to lead with empathy when interacting with cultures that have been effected by colonialism. What prejudices are we bringing into discussions about marginalized groups? Who do these assumptions serve?
It is important to lead with empathy when interacting with cultures that have been effected by colonialism. What prejudices are we bringing into discussions about marginalized groups? Who do these assumptions serve?
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Cultural Empathy Worksheet
Here is a worksheet with some questions designed by Ta7taliya Paisley Nahanee to help you work through some of the topics presented to you so far.
Here is a worksheet with some questions designed by Ta7taliya Paisley Nahanee to help you work through some of the topics presented to you so far.
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Cultural Safety Video
Cultural Safety is about creating an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome, and that requires learning and unlearning harmful aspects of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Cultural Safety is about creating an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome, and that requires learning and unlearning harmful aspects of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
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Cultural Safety Definitions
Definitions you should learn, to help you unlearn anti-indigenous racism and work toward Cultural Safety.
Definitions you should learn, to help you unlearn anti-indigenous racism and work toward Cultural Safety.
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Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee belongs to Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation). She is a decolonial creative & strategist living and working in her ancestral homelands on the shared territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples also known as the City of Vancouver. Through facilitated workshops, workbooks and games, Ta7talíya’s mission is to catalyze social change to transform colonial narratives & impacts. More specifically, she creates work to support everyone in unlearning anti-Indigenous racism and implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action # 92.
Ta7talíya Paisley Eva hails from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation village of Eslha7an and is based in what is colonially known as “Vancouver”. She has been part of the facilitation teams of Decolonizing Practices, M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Society and The Fireweed Fellowship. As a facilitator her approach is interactive and she love’s the “Aha!” moments when you see someone learn or unlearn something new. 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. She also works as DJ and believes in decolonizing every aspect of life including the music industry. She is the co-producer of Hotlatch, an Indigiqueer/2S party and platform. Her work is based in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh teachings and lifting up her communities!