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
Is This Training Meant for You?
If you are in any of the groups below, this program was built with you in mind:
- Non-Indigenous manager, director, coordinator in corporate or business development roles who need to deepen their understanding of Indigenous engagement.
- Members of Indigenous relations committees who want to move beyond symbolic gestures and play a real role in addressing Canada’s history with Indigenous Peoples.
- Leqadership in corporations, organizations, associations, or governments seeking to build a stronger, more informed Indigenous awareness culture—but unsure where to begin.
- Non-Indigenous professionals working within First Nation band administrations who want to engage more respectfully and effectively.
- First Nation individuals looking to deepen their understanding of their Nation’s colonial and assimilation history with Canada.
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A Perspective You Will Not Find Anywhere Else
Learn why the term 'reconciliation' is applied inappropriately much too often when involving non-Indigenous participant(s).
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.
Obstacles to reconciliation: missed leadership opportunities
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.
Alignment with COLONIZER REHAB dialogue format
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.
No university, college, library, and/or archives offers what this course delivers
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.
Here are examples of what this course clarifies
Examples of material clarified
- Common Misconceptions, Magnitude, Red Flag, and Reflections thought boxes are used throughout the course, blending lived experience with Indigenous engagement content that highlights how these issues play out across the rest of Canada.
- Clarification of colonial terms: 'Aboriginal', 'Native', 'Indigenous', 'First Nation', 'status Indian', 'Métis', 'Inuit' and 'band office'.
- Why so many Indigenous relations and reconciliation departmentss, agencies, commissions exist throughout the country and at every level of government and within corporate enetites.
- Indigenous life pre-, at- and post-contact with European settlers.
What is missing in any reconciliation dialogue: GRASPING MAGNITUDE.
Learn to recognize the 'magnitude' of colonization and assimilation of Indigenous peoples.
- Canada’s colonization section doesn’t examine colonial tools in isolation; it considers colonization and assimilation as an interconnected whole. Canada's Indian Act + Indian Reserve System + Indian Residential Schools + Christian Churches + RCMP + band administration offices (i.e., development corporations) = systemic racism & colonization.
- This learning program does what other training programs do not - compare non-Indigenous residential areas with Indian reserve communities. This is where 90& of the magnitude of colonization is missed. Issues such as privilege, systemic racism are brought into the open.
- This program does not shy away from sensitive subjects such as the surrender of parental rights, the issue of unmarked graves, and racism. We confront these topics directly because their impacts on First Nation communities remain profoundly significant.