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Cree (y)for medicine, maskihkiy supports holistic wellness through Indigenous and land-based approaches. you are the medicine 💞🌱✨

maskihkiy provides counselling, land-based healing programs, consulting, workshops, & kihtehayak (Elders) services. our kihtehayah (Elder) Wiisug Richard Wright (Leech Lake Anishinaabe) taught us that medicine is anything that helps a person to heal and live a good life. our team uses both traditional and contemporary Indigenous and land-based approaches to holistic wellness to support individuals, families, communities, and organizations in miyo pimâtisiwin (living a good life). we do this through consultation and workshops that incorporate Indigenous pedagogies and experiential learning. each team member brings unique strengths and gifts, including expertise in Indigenous approaches to counselling and trauma work, decolonizing and Indigenizing organizations including strategic planning and program evaluation, reconciliation initiatives and cultural education, and holistic nutrition. maskihkiy wellness is based out of Calgary, Alberta. our team is available to travel both nationally and internationally.

08/15/2025

time in nature (and with one another) is always healing ❤️

we had an incredible time at our 3-day workshop and retreat: “land-based tools for trauma, grief, and transformation” at Lazy M Lodge 🌿

from great meals and discussions around the fire, to learning about plant medicines and laughing together, participants got to explore iyiniwak approaches to healing grief and trauma while tending to their own wellness. thank you to everyone who joined us, we have so much more to share from the weekend still so stay tuned.

08/05/2025

colonization continues to create barriers to Indigenous people's wellness.

it's pervasive in our child welfare systems, the justice system, education, the language we use, ongoing occupation of Indigenous lands and environmental destruction, and the continued dominance of the development narrative, which marginalizes Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

we can’t build systems of care without first undoing the harm baked into the ones we inherited. healing begins when our iyiniwak ways are centred. THIS is the work, and we are committed to it ✊ (Fellner, 2016)

07/15/2025

final registration call! 📣

we’re running a land-based retreat from July 25-28 at Lazy M Lodge, AB 🌿

there are still a few spots available!

📍Lazy M Lodge
- 3 days + nights, fully catered
- $2,500 per person (shared accommodation)

-certificate of completion provided
-all the details for what you will experience during this 3-day immersive retreat are the link in my bio.

07/14/2025

online event 🌿

in partnership with the survivors circle for reproductive justice, we are hosting a wellness circle for Indigenous survivors of forced & coerced sterilization on saturday, july 19th.

this is a confidential space for survivors to share experiences related to forced & coerced sterilization, including the medicines and wisdoms that emerge through collective justice & healing.

—if this is you, you can register here: https://l.bttr.to/MfyMI
—registration is open until july 18 at 10:00am MST

07/08/2025

Attention Survivors of forced and coerced sterilization. We will be hosting our monthly Online Healing Circle July 19, 2025. Registration for this event is required
https://l.bttr.to/QHyL0

À l'attention des survivantes de stérilisation forcée et contrainte. Notre Cercle de guérison mensuel se tiendra en ligne le 19 juillet 2025. L'inscription à cet événement est obligatoirehttps://l.bttr.to/QHyL0

07/01/2025

today, we honour the iyiniwak nations and peoples of North America.

we are all one people, despite nations being forced apart on either side of the medicine line (US/Canada border) & the southern borders of the US.

we are still here. we are over 1200 Nations strong.

we have all the medicine we need ❤️‍🔥

06/27/2025

a few weeks ago, I was honoured to lead the “decolonizing supervision & practice: Iyiniwak wisdoms for wellness” workshop (co-sponsored by Psychologists' Association of Alberta at University of Alberta with the help of owiyasiwêw Lisa L'Hirondelle. 🪶✨

it was an incredible opportunity to articulate what decolonizing means in the context of psychological & supervisory practice, to help enhance awareness among psychologists, and introduce them to some basic land-based tools.

fun fact: I received my bachelor's and master's degrees at the U of A! it was so deeply lovely to be back and connect with old colleagues, including one of my earliest clinical supervisors and mentors, Dr. Steve Knish.

workshops like these are a big part of what we do! if you are interested in learning more about the professional development services maskihkiy offers, please email info@maskihkiy.com.

06/16/2025

new online event 🌿

in partnership with , we are hosting a healing circle for relatives of Indigenous survivors of forced & coerced sterilization on thursday, june 19th.

this is a confidential space for relatives of survivors to share experiences related to forced & coerced sterilization, including the medicines and wisdoms that emerge through collective justice & healing.

—if this is you, you can register here: https://l.bttr.to/WgYul
—registration is open june 5 to june 18 at 10:00am MST

06/13/2025

the medicine is in the land 🌎 🌿
which quote resonates with you most?

↠ credit to Gerald Vizenor (1999) for the concept of survivance.

06/11/2025

🌕 episode 04 – “so addiction’s about finding the right medicine, not just kicking it?”

I sat down with kihtehayah and author Wiisug Richard Wright to discuss some iyiniwak Indigenous views on addiction. instead of seeing addiction as disease, we discuss relationships with the spirits of substances—turning away from those that are harmful & toward those that strengthen us in good ways—the practices and people that promote vitality and individual, collective, and generational wellness.

full episode available now on youtube, apple & spotify!
➳ https://linktr.ee/maskihkiywellness

06/09/2025

meet the owiyasiwêwak (core advisory) of ᒪᐢᑭᐦᑭᕀ maskihkiy wellness!

🌙 Karlee
ᒥᔪᑌᐦᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ miyotehiskwew katoyiis akii Karlee Fellner, Ph.D., R.Psych is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation of Alberta & is okimâw CEO & founder of maskihkiy wellness.

🌙 Kristi
Puszkar, B. Mgmt, is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation of Alberta & is the onîkânîstamâkêw main helper & executive admin to maskihkiy wellness.

🌙 Lisa
ᐅᑭᒫᐘᐱᐤ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ okimâwapiw-iskwêw Lisa L’Hirondelle, MSW, RSW (IJE) is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation of Alberta, with family from Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement and Papaschase First Nation. she is an owiyasiwêw advisor to maskihkiy wellness.

☀️ Dustin
Niitsii’tsitapin’kaatsim Ksks’staak’iina Dustin Walter, BSN-RN, M.Ed. is from the Amskaapii Pikunii Nation (Blackfeet) of Montana & is an owiyasiwêw advisor to maskihkiy wellness.

🌙 Stephanie
kitpu e'pit Stephanie Tipple, M. Sc., C.C.C., is a member of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation & is an owiyasiwêw advisor to maskihkiy wellness.

to learn more about our counselling services, workshops, consulting & other supports, please email info@maskihkiy.com or visit our website: https://www.maskihkiy.com/

06/06/2025

inawemagon; we are related to everything on earth 🫶

my full conversation with kihtehayah and author Wiisug Richard Wright on the soul medicine podcast drops on june 11th! 💖 link in bio to subscribe: https://bit.ly/maskihkiy-youtube

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