Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag

11/23/2023

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01/24/2023

⭐️⭐️Brand New Program Alert!!!!⭐️⭐️
Join us and our team monthly for a very special gathering on the land around our area to explore the powerful moon cycles that show us our path and help create flow in our life cycles.

This month we explore... Mkwa DBIK Giizis-Bear Moon🐻

Our Traditional Healing Coordinator, Health Promoter, and Wiijinokiiwag Cultural Educator are joining forces to create space for the community to gather with the intention of strengthening our identity and connection to the land through the teachings of Nookomis Giizis.🌚🌕

This program will run monthly at various locations and participation is limited to 15 people per workshop! Registration and commitment are required to attend. You will be contacted for confirmation.
Note: Each participant will be expected to participate in an outdoor activity, teaching, and workshop takeaway as part of the growing experience this program will be looking to teach.
Check out the poster below and share it with your community and friends!
The QR Code can be shared for registration or you can fill out the link below to register now!👇👇👇👇

01/17/2023

It's that time again!!!

We are so excited to announce that for a 2nd Year, we will be listening to the exciting and educational stories of Chris Walser inside our Community Storytelling Series here through our Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag Program.

The Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag Program is our wholistic Cultural Awareness Education Program that’s focus is to Empower Cultural Awareness Education that Builds Safer Environments for Indigenous People in Mainstream Organizations. The program is funded through United Way Simcoe Muskoka and partnered with Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, CMHA- Simcoe County, Gilbert Centre, Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin, BANAC- Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle. To learn more about this program and bringing it to your organizations visit our link at: https://mamaway.ca/wiijinokiiwag/

Join us as we build community and partnerships that grow safer environments for everyone!
There is still time to register... click below to save your space today!

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https://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50171086/Wiijinokiiwag-Community-Storytelling-Series

See you in session friends!
Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
United Way Simcoe Muskoka
Gilbert Centre
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
CMHA National / ACSM National
Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag
CMHA- Simcoe County

10/19/2022

Really excited to be partnering with Lianne on a very special series to build our community bundles!

Check it out!!!!🫶👇👇🫶
Hello Everyone,

Mamaway’s Wiijinokiiwag Cultural Education Coordinator & Health Promoter will be hosting a Gathering of Sisters – 4-part series in November.

Thursdays: November 3, 10, 17 & 24
Time: 10am- 2pm
Note: Location to be determined. (either in Barrie or Orillia)

Join us on this healing journey to discover your personal power, intentions, strengths and community.

This will be a safe space for regional Indigenous women to come together and support one another.

What to expect:
• Group activities at each session
• Time for connection with music (bring your drums, shakers, songs and your voice)
• Lunch provided
• Small Group (10 women) + 2 facilitators!

Please email Lianne if you’d like to register for this series.
We would love for you to join us for all 4 sessions

09/05/2022

🎥Free Community Awareness Event...Will you join us?🎞
Proudly in collaboration with United Way Simcoe Muskoka we are excited to announce the public gathering and showing of Birth of a Family on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022. This very special film tells the story of one families journey to reconnect after being impacted by the intervention of the 60's Scoop. This is a FREE Screening taking place in Orillia so be sure to RESERVE your seat today!

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with local Elders, Knowledge Keepers, Sixties Scoop Survivors, Community Advocates and the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag Program Facilitator, for a discussion about how we can create a better future for all people.

On this week of Truth and Reconciliation we hope to bring awareness and education to the history that for years has been untold, unrecognized and forgotten. Together we hope to raise awareness, education and funding for the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag program to continue on its path of building collaborations in community around cultural awareness, capacity and safety for Indigenous Peoples engaging in mainstream organizations everywhere across our region!

Check out the poster attached and register at the link below!
Details & tickets: https://uwsimcoemuskoka.ca/birth-of-a-family/


Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
Gilbert Centre
Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario
CMHA National / ACSM National

08/08/2022

Mno Gezhep Friends❤

It's been awhile for sure... we have been stretching, growing, learning and gathering new adventures to share with you all and our community these last few months! Miigwetch, for your patience and time!

We are so excited to kickoff our new fall launch of programming with this very special Video Segment on our Voices of Change Series introducing one of our allies and friend.

Please take a behind the scenes look with us at Horse Sense North. For the last few years Carmen and her team have been sharing their knowledge and healing with many of our team and community members to grow and heal through the power of equine healing and empowerment.

In late spring, we began this journey with each other on a quest to share and show how connecting to spirit and self. Grace is one of the beautiful souls at the farm that came to work with me that day and I think after watching you will see how without even understanding all of the "little things" Carmen and her team Horse Sense North truly do create miracles!

Here BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle and Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin we are proud to partner and provide the Equine Therapy as an addition to our programming and support for Indigenous Peoples in our community.

Take a look, a listen and open your heart to a whole new way of transformation... Welcome to Voices of Change, from the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag team!

Here is a link to our newest video👇👇👇
https://youtu.be/CW12VWyaPtU

United Way Simcoe Muskoka
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
Gilbert Centre
Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag

Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag is a culturally based community collaborative project that is working to Empower Mainstream Organizations to Grow Indigenous ...

06/22/2022

📢📢Please Consider Joining us for our BRAND NEW CULTURE CARD LAUNCH this Friday, June 24th at 12 noon on Zoom!

The Culture Card is a pocket tool, that can be shared widely with staff, colleagues and community members. It is a guide to support knowledge to action, or how to create culturally safe interactions and safe space for Indigenous people.

The Culture Card can be obtained by contacting Brandie Scott at the BANAC office.

It is provided at no cost, and represents BANAC’s commitment to working with all of our community partners to support equity, access and best treatment of Indigenous communities throughout our region.

For more information, please contact Heather McIntyre at hmcintyre@banac.on.ca

👇👇Register in advance for this meeting:👇👇
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqceCgrDooG9E-YBUsI_0gUJ0WACJuZpfR

📌📆📌It's Almost Here!!!!
We are so very excited to be able to share with you our BRAND NEW Culture Card coming out this Friday, June 24th!!!!!!

With all of the growth and changes in our world since the initial release of the first Culture Card we knew it was time to redesign, update and educate. Be sure to join us on Friday at 12 noon for a Virtual Release of this amazing new version with our very own Brenda Jackson walking us through the new design with special guests.

👇🏼👇🏼Please take a moment & register below👇🏼👇🏼
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqceCgrDooG9E-YBUsI_0gUJ0WACJuZpfR

Have any questions?
Connect with Heather; hmcintyre@banac.on.ca

04/26/2022

It's Here!!!
So excited to be bringing another amazing connection to our community through the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag program.

⭐️Here is the Episode #7 link to explore!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru1cJIL_-Dw&t=18s

Jillian , is an amazing advocate, writer, poet and auntie. From the moment we met, I saw her soul and immediately I witnessed the magic that Jill holds! Since then I have experienced the brightness of that light in the many collaborative projects and community connections I have watched her lead, develop and orchestrate!

Jill has an abundance of projects you can lean into and is a local columnist who shares her wisdom and gifts with the community to empower understanding, knowing, healing and change!

She will also be featured later today in collaboration with Jeff Monague in an interview with the Gathering OurBundles team so dig in and learn a little more there too! You can register here to experience that: www.tinyurl.com/localwriters

Here are a few links to some of my favorite Jillian Morris Collaborations:
👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MKRAHfOkM👈
👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym_21dtqlng👈

To learn more about participating in the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag program please visit:
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https://mamaway.ca/wiijinokiiwag/

Happiest Tuesday to all of you and make this day count!
🥰We also love to hear your feedback, so be sure to share and comment!

Baamaapii,
Heather
Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
United Way Simcoe Muskoka
Gilbert Centre
CMHA- Simcoe County
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag

04/25/2022

🦋🦋We are very excited to be dropping this amazing conversation in just a couple of days with a dear friend Jillian Morris. I met Jill about 3 years ago and together we shared the pain of grief, the need for change and the collaboration of community awareness for Collingwood's Orange Shirt Day. She is passionate, loyal and has such beautiful stories to share!

When I was thinking of 🌷voices to bring to this conversation, Jill was a natural choice for it was she that sprinkled the dust of the path ahead of me to bring me here... to all of you... to bring you our next episode of the Voices of Change Speaker Series for the Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag Program!

Be sure to check in on Tuesday and take a listen to this amazing soul and all she has to offer!
Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
Gilbert Centre
United Way Simcoe Muskoka
CMHA- Simcoe County
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle

04/21/2022

Just a reminder that our Diversity Presentation is coming up at 1:30 today!
All mainstream organizations are invited to join the conversations!
To access... click here👇
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudu-srDwrGN0N1zoOSXopObbGNqlQJOcP

04/14/2022

Friday Wishes!!!!
Thanks to everyone who attended todays special gathering! We want to wish you all Happiest Easter Celebrations for you an yours! The Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag Community Storytelling Series will go silent now till next season so that we can go forward and plant our gardens of abundance for the year ahead!

Be sure to keep watching as we share some special gathering in the year ahead for us to collaboratively gather in our virtual learning circle together!

Happy Holidays,
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Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin
Gilbert Centre
United Way Simcoe Muskoka
CMHA- Simcoe County
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
BANAC - Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
Working Together- Wiijinokiiwag