UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, Dec 6 Save the Date
WINTER PIPE CEREMONY & MEMBERS GATHERING

Save the date! On December 6, we’ll gather members for a Winter Pipe Ceremony and gathering. This event is about connecting community, getting to know each other, and hosting ceremony to ensure our work moves forward in a good way. All are welcome, and more details to come!

Jan 18 2024 – June 13 2024
BUILD YOUR TRUTH & RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN

We’ve moved these sessions to ONLINE, making it more accessible for people to participate! Meet ON ZOOM one morning a month from Jan 2024 – June 2024 to evaluate your journey of Truth & Reconciliation and develop an action plan for moving forward. Learn how to use the OTC’s Growth Model to measure your organizations’ impact and make changes that make a difference. Participants will receive a workbook and homework to do each month, where they take the information they learn and apply it to their own path/organization.

DATES: January 18, February 8, March 21, April 11, May 9 and June 13. Sessions are always 9am – 12pm
REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE to register on ZOOM
FEE: We have a recommended registration fee of $250 Cdn. Your commitment is more important to us than the registration fee. If you want to attend for free or in exchange for in-kind registrations, you have that option. For example, can you provide coffee/snacks for an upcoming event? Meeting space? Volunteers? Let us know by emailing Carrie at beaconnectr@gmail.com.

To pay the registration fee, please GO TO THE DONATE button on our website.

TRAINING OUTLINE
Session 1: Connecting: Building trust and connection.

  • Looking at your Truth & Reconciliation work to date. What are your strengths? What are your challenges?

Session 2: Aligning: Align around a clear and deeply shared intent for our work together.

  • During this session, you’ll get an Introduction to the OTC’s Growth Model. Where does your work fit into this map? The Growth Model will reveal gaps and strengths in your work to date and is a useful tool for seeing where you can grow.

Session 3: Learning: What does this information mean for our organization? How do we interpret what this means for our environments?

  • Using the Growth Model, your understanding of your work in Truth & Reconciliation will change and evolve. What surprised you? What gaps or opportunities do you see moving forward?

Session 4: Making: Building and testing tangible solutions and bring them to scale.

  • Here you’ll generate ideas for addressing gaps in your work and/or for moving forward to have a greater impact. We’ll work on strategies for implementing these ideas.

Session 5: Measurement: how will you know it’s working?

  • For each idea/implementation generated last month, you’ll decide on how to measure and evaluate whether or not you’re moving forward and having the desired results. What do you hope people (inside the organization and communities that they serve) will experience as specific impacts of this work?

Session 6: Workshop

  • Here we’ll have time to finalize your action plans, and address any outstanding questions or issues that you have.

FROM PREVIOUS ROCK YOUR ROOTS EVENTS:

  • WATCH OUR ONLINE EVENT FROM NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY 2021

    Hear stories about the origin of the Walk for Reconciliation, listen to communities walking for reconciliation, watch cultural performances, and more! Special thanks to the SK Intercultural Association for their role in organizing the online event.

  • KNOW YOUR ROOTS MAP PROJECT

    Follow this link to Know Your Roots, an online and pdf map of reconciliation projects around Saskatoon. This project was initiated by the Rock Your Roots Organizing Committee and is a collaboration between Reconciliation Saskatoon and the Saskatoon Public Library.

  • STORIES FROM RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS

    Our Be A ConnectR YouTube channel features Residential School Survivors telling us about why the Walk for Reconciliation is important to them, as well as sharing stories. Listen, learn, show up and share these important truths.