
25-hour Online Indigenous Engagement Training app has been soft-launched!
This online Indigenous engagement training is available to a select few. The only way to register is by contact Maynard direc
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This online Indigenous engagement training is available to a select few. The only way to register is by contact Maynard direc
This training programs will teach you what you need to learn as opposed to what you want to learn or hear.
This training program may be triggering for some settler-Canadians. It is for this reason effort has gone into preparing learners for this eventuality. Due to the nature of Canada's colonial history, such discomfort is necessary for reconciliation to move forward.
$350 per registrant.
Registration fees are negotiable with multiple registrants.
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There are two categories of reconciliation pertinent to First Nation peoples. Learn why the term 'reconciliation' should not be used in simple Indigenous/non-Indigenous relationship-building processes.
You will gain a clear understanding of why reconciliation progresses so slowly in Canada and the real barriers that continue to impede it.

Leadership identification must be a crucial component to any Indigenous relations training program. This section points out examples where these opportunitites were missed, but not lost.

Indigenous Insight is not a one-off transaction—it’s a relationship. It offers an ongoing mentorship space where you can join other like-minded thinkers for two-hour sessions to unpack the most complex and challenging Indigenous engagement issues.
True Indigenous engagement cannot be learned solely from pages or screens — it must be spoken, heard, and shared through dialogue and discussion.
The primary purpose of COLONIZER REHAB is to align with and enhance the online Indigenous engagement course by providing a safe, respectful, and facilitated dialogue space designed for honest, direct conversations about Indigenous engagement.
Learners who register for Indigenous Insight's online 25-hour Indigenous Engagement course gain FREE access any COLONIZER REHAB seminar.
COLONIZER REHAB sessions are intentionally intimate, capped at 20 participants to keep the conversations real and grounded.
Agendas are tailored ahead of time using participant input from online surveys, ensuring each session is relevant, responsive, and meaningful.
COLONIZER REHAB sessions will take place on the last Friday from 9:00 am to 11:00 am PST.

The experiences shared here are far beyond the reach of non-Indigenous lawyers, professors, and consultants—because they’ve never lived the reality of being First Nation or Indigenous.


Learn to recognize the 'magnitude' of colonization and assimilation of Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Insight is a 100% Aboriginal-owned company based on the lands of the ɬaʔamɩn (Tla’amin) Nation.
Canada’s education system has not prepared settler Canadians for Indigenous engagement of any sort. Most are not prepared to set foot on any Indian reserve. This is not the fault of settler Canadians. Canada's education system is at fault. The perspective brought foward here is built entirely from a First Nation perspective, from a status Indian, one who has lived on an Indian reserve his entire life, is of a family directly impacted by Canada's Indian Residential School System, and from one who has made decisions under the Indian Act.
We provide Indigenous engagement, cultural awareness training, and Aboriginal Rights and Title advisory services to businesses, organizations, corporations, and all levels of government. With 637 recognized First Nations across Canada, navigating this space requires real knowledge of communities, their governance, and their decision-making processes.
While some Nations thrive, many still face the economic and social consequences of centuries-long colonial recessions. Indigenous Insight confronts this reality head-on.
Our approach is direct, factual, and unfiltered — ensuring the truth comes first in Canada's Truth and Reconciliation equation.
KWAST-en-ayu is a member of the Tla'amin Nation (TN), Coast Salish culture, located on the west coast of Canada. Maynard was bestowed with his ancestral name on May 10, 2003 by Tla'amin Elders immediately before his nation signed the Sliammon First Nation - Corporation District of Powell River 'Community Accord'.
For non-Indigenous peoples to be successful in this program, critical thinking and evolution of thought are required. Maynard's respect and teachings have been sharpened from 30+ years of direct exposure to decision-making under Canada's Indian Act, actually living on a Indian Reserve and being of a family directly impacted by Canada's Indian Residential School System.
Maynard’s has worked in the Indigenous economic/business development space for many years, in multiple capacities and truly understands the massive distinctions between Indian Reserve economies when compared to those within cities, towns, municipalities and provinces. His in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of Aboriginal peoples, their traditional land and resource practices and archaeological footprint comes from years of working closely with traditional land and resource use experts and Elders.
Maynard was a guest presenter at Ch'nook Indigenous Business Education (UBC's Sauder School of Business) and was invited to participate on UBC's Indigenous Procurement Committee.
KWAST-en-ayu's work in reconciliation has been recognized locally (Freedom of the City) in 2008 and nationally (Queen Elizabeth III Diamond Jubilee medal, 2013).