Positioning Settler Identity within Reconciliation workshop
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Overview
Delivery method
Online
Instructor Led
Virtual classroom
Duration
Audience
All HC and PHAC Employees
Description
This session will consist of one hour of individual work ahead of two group sessions.
Learners will learn about the concept of ‘settler’ as a tool rather than a label for addressing colonial legacies and harms in Canada, tools for preparing as a non-Indigenous person working on Indigenous or Indigenous-related files, how to improve relationships with Indigenous partners and how to act in a culturally humble way. Participants will complete self-reflection questions to support learning integration.
What does it mean to be a settler? And why does it matter?
Through this engaging, and sometimes enraging, workshop, we will look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations and explain what it means to be a settler. We will learn how accepting a settler identity is an important first step towards changing these relationships. It also means accepting our settler responsibility to struggle for change. The workshop will look at ways to move forward and decolonize relationships between settler Canadians and Indigenous Peoples, so that we can find new ways of being on this land, together.
This session will present a serious challenge. It offers no easy road and lets no one off the hook. It will unsettle, but only to help settler people to find a pathway for transformative change, one that prepares us to imagine and move towards just and beneficial relationships. A way forward may mean leaving much of what we think we know about Canada behind.
The book, Settler: Colonialism and identity in 21st century Canada (Fernwood Press, 2015) is the foundation for this presentation and will be presented by Dr. Emma Battell Lowman and Dr. Adam Barker.
The presentation will take place virtually in English on Microsoft Teams on June 15 and 22. The presentations will take approximately 1.5 hours with interactive activities and Q&A/discussion periods.
By registering for this session, you are committing to attend both sessions and complete the pre-work before the first session.
