My Offerings
LEARNING OPPORTUNITY 1
How to Be a Better Relative
How to Be a Better Relative is a six-week introductory course exploring how people can reconnect with and strengthen their relationships with self, Creator, one another, and creation. Through storytelling, land-based reflection, Indigenous asset-based frameworks, and embodied practice, participants explore pathways toward balance, community wholeness, and becoming better relatives.
Private organizational offerings may combine or adapt sessions to fit the time and context available while preserving the wider relational journey.
Week 1: Arriving with Intention
Steps 1–2: Greet each day with intention. Practise grounding and return to your body and the earth beneath you.
Participants are introduced to the complete 12-Step framework and explore intention as a way of entering relationship through orientation and presence. They experience several pathways of grounding and identify practices that can help them arrive more fully within themselves, their relationships, and the places where they gather.
Week 2: Understanding the Shape of Our Realities
Steps 3–4: Locate yourself within a circle of people and place. Listen to the stories held in the land and among your relatives.
Participants explore how rootedness shapes the ways people understand themselves, one another, and the world around them. Through storytelling and shared reflection, they consider the people and places that have formed them. The session invites participants to locate themselves within a particular context and recognize how what has shaped them continues to inform how they live and relate today.
Week 3: Sacred Gifts
Steps 5–6: Acknowledge the sacredness of all relatives. Cherish all relatives as gifts and respond through gratitude and generosity.
Participants explore the inherent worth, agency, mystery, and relational belonging carried by human and more-than-human life. The session considers how gratitude, generosity, and responsibility shape the ways people receive gifts, practise reciprocity, and relate with care.
Week 4: Discerning Rhythms
Steps 8–9: Follow the seasonal rhythms and energies of the land. Practise discernment in times of change.
Participants explore how land, plants, animals, seasons, and bodily awareness can guide living with greater balance. The session invites attention to movement, rest, change, and renewal, helping participants discern how different seasons may call for different ways of being.
Week 5: Truth and Relational Repair
Steps 10–11: Honour the journeys that brought you here with truth and humility. Embody relational repair through accountability and renewed practice.
Participants explore how individual, communal, and systemic stories interact and shape one another. Through Indigenous and settler histories, lived experience, reflection, and shared dialogue, the session considers how colonial narratives continue to influence relationships, institutions, and everyday choices. Participants then explore relational repair through land-based wisdom, accountability and reciprocity.
Week 6: Becoming a Good Ancestor
Steps 7 and 12: Live in relational responsibility with the land and your more-than-human kin. Let your words, actions, and relationships nourish future generations.
Participants gather the stories, relationships, teachings, and practices encountered throughout the course and consider how to integrate these practices into everyday life. The session invites participants to understand the 12 Steps as a framework they can return to in different seasons, drawing on the practices and relationships they most need at a particular time. Becoming a good ancestor is an ongoing journey of learning, making mistakes, practising repair, and carrying forward ways of living that honour the past and nourish those who come after us.