Cultural Safety, Seven Dancers Coaltion
This two-day training is designed to educate and acquaint you with some of the history and traditions of Indigenous people. Before you begin working with survivors of trauma in our territories, we wanted to make sure you had the foundation to provide informed case conclusion.
Seven Dancers Coalition has brought together experts from our territory, who will provide knowledgeable background for today’s cases. You will begin with the origins of our people, our Creation Story, and hear traditional teachings that have guided our families since time immemorial. Through powerful presentations, you’ll learn about the legacies of colonization and the ways in which we’re gathering the embers to rebuild our fire of resilience and healing. We have planned a sweat lodge ceremony for our group, and hope you will attend!
We honor your work and welcome you to this special training and to Akwesasne.
What is Cultural Safety?
An environment that is spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically safe for people, where there is no denial of identity, of who they are or what they need.
Key Concepts:
Cultural Safety moves beyond the concept of cultural sensitivity to analyzing power imbalances, institutional discrimination, and colonization.
Cultural Safety requires that service providers become respectful of nationality, culture, age, sex, political and religious belief. This notion is in contrast to trans-cultural care, which encourages service providers to deliver services irrespective of these aspects.
Cultually safe care empowers people because it reinforces the idea that each person’s knowledge and reality is valid and valuable.
Cultural safety is a political idea because it attempts to change attitudes about the power relationships between service provider and client.
