You Are The Medicine: The Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel teaches us that every season and every cycle that we move through in life is needed and of great importance. After the past few years, many of us find ourselves in burnout and overwhelm. We are conditioned to believe that all the answers we seek come outside of us. This comes from the systems at play such as colonialism, capitalism, and the patriarchy. In this session, author, healer, and mentor Asha Frost incorporates the teachings of the Medicine Wheel to assist in bringing more joy, ease, and flow into our lives. In sharing these teachings and through storytelling, Asha will help listeners turn burnout to beauty and overwhelm to balance. She will provide an embodied, healing experience so you can live with more peace and joy. She will offer ways that we can use these teachings to build resilience and capacity for ourselves.

Legacy: Trauma, Story & Healing: Healing from intergenerational trauma looks different for each person and each community, but it begins with story - because stories make the world. What we tell and how we tell it shapes who we are and what we hope to become. But healing from colonial trauma is not just work for Indigenous people. Non-Indigenous people must also re-write the narrative of genocide and oppression, working with Indigenous peoples to create another, better way of living. In this talk, author and educator Suzanne Methot will share her own and others' stories to trace the roots of colonial trauma and the mechanisms by which trauma has become intergenerational. She will also explore Indigenous ways of knowing and being that can lead us toward change.