Indigenous Training Collective

DEBWEWIN (MY TRUTH) INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMPETENCE TRAINING DESCRIPTION The Debwewin (My Truth) Indigenous Cultural Competence Training brings Indigenous cultural awareness, sensitivity, competence, and safety teachings into one comprehensive offering. Warren Lewis is First Nations from the Wikwemikong Unceded Territory, and the training offers participants teachings from a First Nations perspective. Warren uses storytelling to help participants connect the dots between historical events and their impacts on current realities for First Nations Peoples. Warren shares his First Nations perspective on topics such as the doctrine of discovery, the Indian Act, the reserve system, the residential school system, the Indian day school system, the Indian hospitals, the sixties scoop, and the millennium scoop and their effects on First Nations Peoples and communities. NMSHKOZIWIN (PERSONAL POWER) INDIGENOUS PERSONALEMPOWERMENT TRAINING DESCRIPTION NMSHKOZIWIN (Personal Power) Indigenous Personal Empowerment Training brings Indigenous teachings and worldview into a modern context to empower participants. Warren Lewis is First Nations from the Wikwemikong Unceded Territory, and the training offers participants teachings from a First Nations perspective. Warren uses storytelling to help participants learn from First Nations teachings about living in balance and focusing on high energy thoughts, using feelings to maintain a positive state, taking definitive action towards goals, working on bringing the four aspects of ourselves into balance. Warren shares his perspective about living the good life in a modern world through using Indigenous teachings and worldview.