GRANDMOTHER'S VOICE PRESENTS
Truth with Reconciliation
A Healing Framework
10 years, 94 Calls, 13 Answered.
What’s next for you & your organization? See my Call
November 13th & 14th, 2024
The Meeting House, Oakville
Understand the PAST
Act in the PRESENT
Build the FUTURE
JOIN US - All Are Welcome
Join us for a groundbreaking two-day conference encouraging all Canadians to participate in reconciliation and healing actively. This event is not just for corporations and organizations but everyone who calls Canada home.
Ticket Price: $649
Ticket Inquires
Special rates apply for Indigenous community members, students, not-for-profits, charities, and groups. Complete the form below and we will reply to you.
If your organization requires an invoice, please email grandmothersvoice@gmail.com
What You'll Gain:
- Know how to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action in your daily life and work
- Confidence to engage in meaningful and purposeful reconciliation & healing efforts
- Deep understanding of how Indigenous approaches can be integrated with healthcare, social services, business practices, and family
Why This Matters:
The TRC’s Calls to Action are not just a government mandate—it’s a pathway for all Canadians to build a more just and inclusive society. Each of us is a “Call to Action” in our own right, with the power to effect change.
What to Expect:
- Learn directly from Indigenous leaders, healers, knowledge keepers, and community members.
- Discover how to transform the TRC’s recommendations into tangible actions
- Learn to develop and implement strategies for culturally safe, sensitive service delivery and ethical corporate engagement
- Gain insights into what it truly means to be Canadian and to live on these lands with the Original Peoples.
Hotel recommendation:
Hilton Garden Inn Toronto/Oakville, 2774 S Sheridan Way, Oakville, ON L6J 7T4
See Room Block Must book by Nov 1, 2024
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mississauga-Toronto Southwest, an IHG Hotel 2125 N Sheridan Way, Mississauga, ON L5K 1A3
Fairfield Inn Toronto Oakville 2937 Sherwood Heights Dr, Oakville, ON L6J 7L3
Time for Change:
It’s time to move beyond words and into action. This conference will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and connections needed to implement real change in your personal and professional circles.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of Canada’s journey towards reconciliation. Together, we can build a future that honors Indigenous wisdom, promotes equality, and creates a stronger, more united nation for all.
Register now to move towards a healed nation.
Do you know what your call to action is?
The TRC 94 calls to action recommendations were created between Indigenous Leaders and the government to repair and renew relationships between the people of Canada and the original people of Turtle Island.
Child Welfare #1-5
This conference will provide the knowledge and confidence to implement culturally appropriate practice in child welfare to ensure the safety and well-being of all Indigenous children.
- Ensure Indigenous children’s safety, well-being, and connection to the land
- Understand the impacts of intergenerational trauma
- Confidently provide culturally safe child care
- Promote the importance of Indigenous families staying together
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
See all calls.
Gain empowerment to lead change
Health (#18-24)
This conference is essential for physicians, social workers, therapists, and allied health practitioners to gain a deeper understanding, appreciation, and respect for wholistic Indigenous practices to achieve reconciliation through their service model.
- Discover and value integrating Indigenous ethics into policy
- Understand culturally appropriate care within Western medicine
- Recognize the importance and value of land-based healing
- Include Indigenous practices into your wholistic delivery model
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
See all calls.
Gain empowerment to lead change.
Justice (#25-42)
This conference is essential for legal professionals, law enforcement, and justice system employees to fully understand the importance of including Indigenous principles into the justice system to promote equity, healing, and reconciliation.
- Discover and value integrating Indigenous ethics into policy and practices
- Accept the Indigenous overrepresentation within the justice system and prioritize a solution
- Understand how to recognize and support reactions of intergenerational trauma
- Create equitable practices based on Indigenous knowledge systems
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
Gain empowerment to lead change.
Government (#43-44)
This conference is essential for Ontario government officials and their staff to understand the full history and value Indigenous principles:
- Discover and value integrating Indigenous ethics into policy and practices
- Collaborate directly with Indigenous community members within your jurisdiction
- Acquire tools to lead effective reconciliation efforts in your communities
- Empower yourself to fulfill your role in advancing national reconciliation
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
Gain empowerment to lead change.
Media (#84-86)
This conference is essential for media professionals committed to reporting from Indigenous perspectives.
- Learn authentic approaches for reporting Indigenous stories
- Gain confidence in your techniques in approaching Indigenous matters and accurately portraying Indigenous perspectives.
- Learn the importance of participating in roundtable conversations with local Indigenous groups
- Discover methods to incorporate true Indigenous voices in your work
- Contribute to reconciliation through responsible journalism
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
Gain empowerment to lead change.
Business (#92)
This conference is essential for corporate executives, HR leaders, and DEI employees committed to fostering a just and inclusive workplace for Indigenous Peoples
- Discover and value integrating Indigenous ethics into you organization’s policy and practices
- Develop culturally sensitive hiring and retention strategies for Indigenous applicants
- Learn the importance of participating in roundtable conversations with local Indigenous groups
- Learn to advocate for equitable opportunities in the corporate sector
- Develop strategies for creating sustainable benefits for Indigenous communities
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
Gain empowerment to lead change.
Education (#6-12)
This conference empowers educators to confidently teach Indigenous history and knowledge, and to appropriately care for Indigenous students in their schools.
- Encourage and engage educators to transfer Indigenous history, stories, and knowledge confidently.
- Gain confidence in teaching Canada’s history wholistically and without appropriation
- Identify and care for Indigenous students in your schools
- Understand the value and importance of Indigenous land-based teachings in the classroom
- Integrate Indigenous knowledge and ethics in your practices and workspace to better support Indigenous employees
Gain empowerment to lead change.
For Indigenous Attendees
Whether attending for professional development or personal growth, this event is for you. Through this gathering, you will gain:
- Confidence to take up space and ensure your voice is heard in society and/or the workplace
- Empowerment to share the value of your Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in workplaces
- Connection to Elders and Indigenous knowledge that can guide healing for yourself and your community
All attendees of both days will be emailed a certificate of completion.
SPEAKERS
Join us for enlightening sessions with our distinguished speakers, who bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and passion to our conference on Indigenous Approaches to Healthcare and Social Services.
Elder
Dennis Windego
Indigenous Wholistic Psychotherapist
Elder
Allen Sutherland
Healer & Historian
Faith
Hale
Executive Director of the Ska:na Family Learning Centre (SFLC)
Samantha
Doxtator
Personal Development Consultant
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
2 DAY EVENT
This course guides us from understanding the past to taking action in the present, so together we can build a future grounded in relationship, as a collective community.
10 years, 94 calls to action, 13 answered.
This 2-day gathering will be immersed in Indigenous culture through singing, dancing, storytelling, and HOPE (How Our People Educate). This way of being will transform your views of your role and responsibility towards achieving reconciliation together.
There will be Wellness Rooms and Elders Rooms at the Conference for Individuals who need support during the topics of discussion
Please note that this is a working agenda, and we are excited to share more details with you as we finalize the schedule.
DAY 1 :
Understanding the Past and Present
The first day of our conference is dedicated to uncovering the deep history and current realities of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We will cycle through the day with powerful presentations from Indigenous Elders, Healers, and a Women’s Panel led by Indigenous Grandmother’s. The topics of discussions will include the historical timeline, trauma, treaties, relationships, and self-healing of Indigenous Peoples through connection to the land.
Attendees will be able to reflect and ask questions with panelists.
Schedule
7:30 AM – Registration & Light Breakfast
8:30 AM– Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM First Speaker Begins
- Allen Sutherland- Historical Timelines
- Cultural Performance
- Indigenous Connection to the Land for Self-healing with Dennis Windego
- Cultural Performance
[ Networking Lunch Hour ]
- Indigenous Grandmother’s and western physician discussion – Women’s Panel
- Question Segment
- Closing Ceremony
4:30PM Day 1 Concludes
DAY 2 :
Building a Future of Reconciliation
The second day includes current research, introduces a Community of Practice healing framework, and a short film, which explores cultural restoration and how Indigenous traditions and practices can heal the intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools. Further discussions will continue with all presenters sharing their perspectives on how we create a reconciled future together through relationships.
Attendees will be able to reflect and ask questions with panelists.
Schedule
7:30 AM – Registration & Light Breakfast
8:30 AM– Opening Ceremony
9:00 AM First Speaker Begins
- Reconciliation Research
- Film Viewing: Culture Healers, Culture Killers
- Delivery of Community of Practice – Reconciliation with Purpose: a Healing Framework with Faith Hale
- Cultural Performance
[Networking Lunch Hour]
- Building a Reconciled Future – Interactive Panel and discussion with presenters
- We are all connected with Samantha Doxtator, Indigenous Astronomy Researcher
- Closing Ceremony
4:30 PM Day 2 Concludes
TOPICS COVERED
Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
Understanding Historical Trauma and its Contemporary Impacts
Tools and Protocols for Serving Indigenous Communities
Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action
Practicing Reconciliation and Decolonization in Organizations
and more!
SPEAKER BIOS
Dennis Windego
Dennis Windego is from the traditional lands of the Anishinabeg community of Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation in northwestern Ontario. His Anishinabeg name is Zoongwebines, and he is a member of the Lynx clan. Dennis follows the teachings of his late father which guides his decolonizing approach to mental health, addictions, grief, and healing of trauma. He holds an MSW from Laurentian University. He also graduated from the community based, BSW (Hons) program through Seven Generations and Carleton University.
Allen Sutherland
Allen Sutherland, known by his spirit name Waabishki Mazinazoot Michtaatim (White Spotted Horse), is an Anishinaabe from the Skownan First Nation, Treaty 2 Territory. With over 30 years of experience in various government roles and grassroots community work, Allen bridges traditional and contemporary worlds. As an Anishinaabek historian, traditional knowledge keeper, and nation builder, he runs White Spotted Horse, Inc. and Ginew Healing Lodge, providing sought-after training on Anishinaabe history and culture.
Samantha Doxtator
Samantha Doxtator, Oneida, Wolf Clan Samantha is a personal development consultant who teaches life and employability skills that are grounded by traditional values. She is a lifelong learner and researcher, and continues to share her nurturing gifts with everyone she crosses paths with. She is a daughter, grand-daughter, auntie, sister, cousin, and friend, who takes great pride in family. She recently excepted the gift to continue the work on Haudenosaunee Astronomy by her sister Sasha kʌha who passed in July 2021. This presentation has been referred to as medicine by many communities, and aligns with Sam’s intentions to help others heal with astronomical knowledge and nurture Ukwehuwe brilliance.
Faith Hale
Faith Hale is a graduate from Wayne State University M.Ed., BA. Soc., Brock University, B.Ed., St. Clair College RECE. As a certified Trainer of Trainers in the High/Scope Curriculum Approach focusing on Aboriginal culture and education, she has trained numerous Registered Early Childhood Educator’s in the High/Scope Approach on and off reserve.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Ska:na Family Learning Centre (SFLC), the first Aboriginal owned childcare centre in Windsor. As a founding member of SFLC, she has been instrumental in the ongoing success of SFLC, which has evolved into four fully operational and profitable child care centre’s in Ontario.
Sponsorship Packages
Each sponsorship tier includes exclusive benefits such as complimentary tickets, recognition across social media, and acknowledgement on day-of-event materials. Details of each package are attached for your consideration.
Your partnership will not only support a necessary conference for all Canadians but also demonstrate your commitment to reconciliation and building stronger communities together.
- Complimentary Tickets: 10 tickets with reserved seating for your staff to attend the conference, “Reconciliation with Truth: A Healing Framework.”
- Indigenous Sponsorship: Sponsor four Indigenous community member, allowing your organization to directly support community participation.
- Prominent Recognition: Your company’s logo will be prominently displayed on all event materials, including the website, social media, banners, and printed programs.
- Acknowledgment: Recognition in newsletters and social media mentions before, during, and after the event.
- Content-Specific Recognition: Sponsors will have the opportunity to provide a 60-second pre-recorded message highlighting your company’s values and reasons for supporting your call to action #57.
- Post Conference Review Workshop: The team at Grandmother’s Voice will host a virtual session for all Eagle Sponsors, providing a collaborative space to discuss how to transform the conference’s insights into meaningful action.
- Recognized for Sponsoring an Indigenous Caterer to serve at the event
- Complimentary Tickets: 6 tickets for your staff to attend the conference.
- Indigenous Sponsorship: Sponsor for two Indigenous community members, allowing your organization to directly support community participation.
- Recognition: Your company’s logo displayed on the event website, social media, banners, and printed programs.
- Acknowledgment: Recognition in newsletters and social media mentions before, during, and after the event.
- Complimentary Tickets: 4 tickets for your staff to attend the conference.
- Indigenous Sponsorship: Sponsor an Indigenous community member, allowing your organization to directly support community participation.
- Recognition: Your company’s logo displayed on the event website, select social media mentions, and selected printed materials during the event.
- Acknowledgment: Mention in newsletters and during the event program.
- Complimentary Tickets: 1 complimentary ticket for you or your staff to attend the conference.
- Indigenous Sponsorship: Sponsor an Indigenous community member, allowing your organization to directly support community participation.
- Recognition: Your company’s logo displayed on selected social media mentions,and selected printed materials during the event.
- In-Kind Support: Contribution through goods or services (e.g., catering, printing, venue setup).
- Recognition: Acknowledgment on select social media mentioned and printed materials during the event.
- Acknowledgment: Inclusion in a dedicated section recognizing all in-kind contributors in event communications.
- Discounted Tickets: Offer additional tickets to your team at a discounted cost.
