My Offerings
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.
How to Be a Better Relative Pricing
How to Be a Better Relative is offered to individuals through online Fall and Spring cohorts. Registration for an online cohort is $150 per person for the full six-week course.
Cost should not prevent an individual from participating. Those who are unable to pay the full cohort fee are welcome to contact me at mgriffin@redclover.ca to discuss available options.
Organizations can host the course for $3,000 for up to 20 participants, with an additional fee of $75 per participant beyond 20. Courses can be adapted for online or in-person delivery and shaped to fit each group’s needs and context.
How to Be a Better Relative can be offered weekly over six weeks or as two seven-hour days. For the two-day format, the host organization may arrange lunch directly or request that catering be added at cost.
Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others
Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others is a two-session introductory workshop that explores how place, story, and relationship shape how people understand themselves and one another. Through Syilx storytelling, Indigenous approaches to community wellbeing, personal reflection, and shared dialogue, participants will consider the roots that have shaped them and the gifts and perspectives they bring into their communities.
Participants will practice locating themselves within a particular context and listening across different experiences. The workshop invites greater curiosity, humility, and care while presenting reconciliation as the ongoing practice of learning how to live well together.
Workshop Overview:
Session 1: Locating Ourselves in Story and Place
Participants explore the purpose and practice of land acknowledgements, encounter Syilx perspectives on land and community wellbeing, and reflect on the Four Food Chiefs story. The session introduces ways of locating ourselves within the lands, relationships, and stories that have shaped who we are.
Between Sessions: Discovering Your Roots
Participants complete a guided take-home assignment exploring the people, places, cultures, experiences, and stories that have shaped their identity and perspective.
Session 2: Listening Across Our Stories
Participants gather in a facilitated storytelling circle to share what they discovered about their roots and listen across different experiences. Through story and reflection, the group considers how greater awareness of personal and collective histories can cultivate curiosity, humility, and care in relationship with others.
Workshop Offerings and Pricing
Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others is offered through online Fall and Spring cohorts for individuals, as well as through private bookings for churches, businesses, and nonprofits. Registration for an online cohort is $75 per person for the full two-session workshop.
Cost should not prevent an individual from participating. Those who are unable to pay the full cohort fee are welcome to contact me at mgriffin@redclover.ca to discuss available options.
Organizations can host the workshop for $1,000 for up to 15 participants. The workshop can be adapted for online or in-person delivery and shaped to fit each group’s needs and context. For larger groups, participants may be divided into smaller storytelling circles, and additional facilitation support may be recommended depending on the gathering’s size and format.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is a facilitated organizational developmental process that helps churches, businesses, nonprofits, and community groups recognize their strengths, imagine new possibilities, and turn shared learning into practical action.
I use the 5-D Cycle as a framework, weaving Indigenous approaches to storytelling, relationality, and community wellbeing into my facilitation practice. Participants share stories of meaningful experiences, identify the values and relationships that form the organization’s positive core, and use that foundation to imagine what’s possible. The process helps groups translate those possibilities into practical plans, shared commitments, and sustainable next steps.
Rather than beginning with problem-solving, Appreciative Inquiry creates space for honest reflection, creativity, and shared responsibility while strengthening the gifts, relationships, and practices already present within the community.
The 5-D Cycle
The process follows five interconnected phases:
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Define
Establish a positive focus for inquiry.
Definition defines the project’s purpose, content, and what needs to be achieved. It highlights a place where the group wants to see growth and flourishing. As problems and deficits may be initially easier to identify, the definition phase may require reframing issues as opportunities for exploration.
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Discovery
Share stories of the organization at its best to identify a positive core.
Positive stories help to stir the imagination and generate excitement about the future. The discovery process explores questions about the best experiences of the past to identify the values of the present. Participants then, work together to group stories into new themes and categories to develop a positive core.
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Dream
Imagine new possibilities for the future.
Grounded in past successes, participants use their positive core to explore what could be. Participants use creative mediums to explore collective vision and formulate where they’d like to see their community grow.
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Design
Create priorities, structures and tangible plans.
The Design phase combines the best of what is with the possibilities of what could be. Participants create an actionable plan based on current resources, capacity and structures to encourage sustainability and healthy rhythms.
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Delivery
Support implementation, accountability, and continued learning.
The final stage focuses on putting plans into practice. The cycle is flexible and non-linear. Groups may return to earlier phases as their vision, relationships, and capacity develop, adapting as they go.
Appreciative Inquiry Pricing
Appreciative Inquiry is available through private bookings for churches, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations. The full process costs $3,500 and includes an introductory consultation, six two-hour facilitated sessions through the 5-D Cycle, participant resources, and support in developing a positive core, shared vision, and practical next steps.
The process can be offered online or in person and adapted to each organization’s size, context, and goals. Sessions can be hosted at the organization’s location or at an alternate local venue, subject to availability. Travel expenses may apply for bookings outside the Central Okanagan and will be discussed before the booking is confirmed.
Speaking Engagements
I offer speaking engagements for churches, businesses, nonprofits, schools, conferences, and community gatherings. Each presentation is shaped to the audience and context and draws on storytelling, lived experience, reflection, and relational learning.
Topics may include:
Reconciliation and relationship-building
Indigenous storytelling and worldview
Intersections between faith and culture
Identity, belonging, and kinship
Land reconnection, land-based learning, and community healing
Speaking engagements support relationship-building, shared learning, and ongoing community engagement. Preference is given to invitations that are community-focused and create opportunities for continued relationship beyond a single event.
Fees are offered on a sliding scale from 150–500, depending on the organization, audience size, preparation required, available budget, and level of customization. The typical rate for a 15–30-minute talk is $300.
During high-demand periods in June and September, speaking fees generally range from 400–850. Availability is limited during these seasons, and I’ll confirm final pricing during booking.
Travel expenses may apply for bookings outside the Central Okanagan and will be discussed before confirming the engagement.