Cultural Competency Training and Workshops

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We offer customized, experiential, and interactive trainings and workshops that pay careful attention to the wide array of adult learning styles. Our experienced trainers are both content experts as well as gifted facilitators.

We also offer keynote speaking engagements from our diverse team of inspiring and dynamic individuals.

Please contact our Coordinator – Trainings and Presentations, Sabre Pictou Lee, to learn more: sabre@archipelresearch.com 

We currently offer trainings in two subject areas:

Anti-Oppression / Anti-Racism 101

Our introductory workshops, delivered by individuals with lived experiences of oppression, help define for participants colonialism, anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, gender oppression, and many other forms of oppression in the Canadian context.  

Indigenous Awareness and Respectful Relations

Positive Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations stem from a reciprocal understanding of histories and cultures. Our training sessions have been developed and are facilitated by a team of Indigenous professionals to assist attendees in establishing an understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, practices, and protocols. Our team of Indigenous teachers and researchers are passionate about expanding non-Indigenous awareness and understandings of Indigenous culture, thereby facilitating more respectful relationships between communities. Offered in half-day, full day, and two-day formats. 

Our team of Indigenous teachers and researchers is passionate about expanding non-Indigenous awareness and understandings of Indigenous culture and thereby facilitating more respectful relationships between communities. 

Our team has offered trainings and presentations to many organizations, including:

  1. Somerset West Community Health Centre
  2. Crime Prevention Ottawa
  3. School of Social Work, Carleton University
  4. YouthREX
  5. Student Federation of the University of Ottawa
  6. Graduate Association of Social Work, Carleton University
  7. Métis Nation of Ontario
  8. Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
  9. Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa
  10. Tsilhoqt’in Nation
  11. Wapikoni Mobile
  12. KM Law Firm
  13. Sipekne’katik Band Indian Brook First Nation Health Centre