EDI meets TRC

• This session provides the necessary psychological and emotional container for TRC work to continue. By validating personal struggles, it makes the work sustainable. It shifts the focus from simply consuming information to processing impact, which is essential for developing the empathy required for genuine reconciliation.

TRC (Truth and Reconciliation):

EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion):

• The workshop promotes equity by actively prioritizing and centering the voices and experiences of Indigenous participants while providing non-Indigenous participants with a framework for respectful engagement and allyship. It fosters inclusion by validating a diverse spectrum of knowledge levels and ensuring that professional background is seen as a relevant lens, not a barrier, to engaging with these essential topics.

Why it matters

This workshop addresses the most common barrier to sustained TRC and EDI work: the personal, emotional cost and paralyzing fear of engaging incorrectly.

Organizations often train on what to do but fail to address how to process the learning. By creating an ethical container for vulnerability and centering diverse positionality, this session makes the work of reconciliation psychologically sustainable and manageable for all involved.

Funding ensures that organizations can move beyond mandated training to facilitate the honest, empathetic dialogue required to translate knowledge into responsible, lasting action, ultimately strengthening collaborative efforts across all professional and cultural lines.