ONWA took a leading role in sitting with Indigenous women to listen and learn about the history of lateral violence and its unique impacts within their communities. Guided by what we heard through deep listening, ONWA developed the Healing, Empowerment, Reclamation, and Safety (HERS) training, grounded in the lived experiences and voices of Indigenous women. The Red Jingle Campaign will support this work at a national level by focusing on the solutions that are developed by Indigenous women for Indigenous women.

Storytelling is a powerful way to connect to spirit and creation. Experience and witness the ability to transform energy through movement, breathing, and dance. Participants will learn techniques to ground and release, trust and let go.

ONWA’s Research and Evaluation portfolio is developing the 13 Grandmother Moon Phases Research Training Curriculum that reclaims Indigenous women’s ways of knowing and being to support research and knowledge gathering that is empowering for Indigenous women.

This breakout session will pilot the Phase 4 – Ethical and Relational Research module of the 13 Grandmother Moon training curriculum. The objectives of this training are for participants to understand what constitutes empowering and disempowering research, ways to ensure research Indigenous women’s safety in research, and envisioning ethics and accountability. Knowledge gathering is critical to telling Indigenous women’s stories and creating meaningful change for generations to come. Join us in learning techniques that can help you make an impact.

This breakout session will explore how Indigenous women understand, use, and guide data in ways that reflect community values, lived experience, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Rooted in stories, relationship, and collective responsibility, this session will look at wise practices that honour how Indigenous women gather information, make sense of it, and use it to support wellness, safety, advocacy, and decision-making.

This session will pilot a training module that is part of a broader Indigenous women’s research training curriculum that is under development and led by ONWA’s Research and Evaluation team, funded by CIRNAC. Together, we will reflect on what data means in our everyday lives, and how it connects to Indigenous women’s rights, leadership, and self-determination.

In this 1 hour session, Reepa will begin this gathering with the lighting of the Qulliq lamp, followed by stories of her memories of living on the land and concepts of traditional, ethical Inuit law. Reepa will also share her teachings on Inuit IQ principles in this intimate and welcoming session.

The content of the presentation will include traditional knowledge surrounding roles of family members and community, rites of passage, and protocols and principles in relation to traditional child-rearing. We will discuss the importance of caregiving with a two-eyed seeing approach and invite participants to reflect on their inherent knowledge, while challenging them to look ahead for future generations. We will use visual aids (PowerPoint slides) along with discussion questions to enhance participation. We will also provide an art activity for them to express how they will take up their leadership roles in their families and communities to reclaim their traditional caregiving roles. Throughout the presentation, we will share our Maamawi “All Together” Parenting Program and the impact it has made thus far in community. In addition, we will present the Indigenous Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program to promote and highlight the importance of early intervention, prevention, and advocacy.

Together, Jody and Jenn will offer teachings grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and remembrance. They invite participants to reflect on how environmental harm shows up in our families, bodies, and communities, and how we care for Mother Earth is expressed through everyday actions — what we take, what we return, and how we live with gratitude. Their work restores memory through story, reflection, and ceremony, helping Indigenous women reclaim their roles as caretakers of land, water, culture, and community. Their shared teaching is simple and powerful: we are not separate from the land — we are land, and we are medicine.

The Great Dream & Human Development invites participants into an Anishinaabe teaching of creation as living instruction—where Spirit dreams the world into being and continues dreaming through us. Allen Sutherland shares how Gichi-Bawaajigan (The Great Dream) maps to stages of human development—identity, belonging, responsibility, and purpose—offering practical reflections for healing, leadership, and wellness in today’s world.