Spirit Painting

Connect with your Centre and learning to access the Centre, equate it with your beliefs and values and creative force with you. Connect with gifts you come to creation with.

Facilitators

Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell) is Elder-in- Residence at Laurier University’s Lyle S. Hallman Masters of Social Work program, in the Indigenous Field of Studies. Her Indigenous name is Awnjibinayseekwe. She is a Bear Clan, Third Degree Midiiwin, Ojibway Traditional Medicine Society, 1972-present, Traditional knowledge Keeping, includes Teachings, Ceremonies and the Medicines. In addition to being an Indigenous Elder, she is also an Indigenous cultural advisor, teacher, curriculum developer, trainer, and Traditional Practitioner, serving Indigenous communities for over forty years. She has travelled to other counties, including Peru, Chile, and South Africa as a keynote speaker and workshop leader. She is a co-author of Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada (2017, Between the Lines Publishers) and also of a chapter of Social Work Ethics: Progressive, Practical and Relational Approaches (2017, Oxford University Press). Banakonda will speak on Tuesday October 24 on “Legacies of Social Welfare: Reflections by an Indigenous Elder and an Ally: Part 2

Who can join?

This group is open to Indigenous students 

When and how do we meet?

This group will meet in person, on November 8 from 4:30pm to 8:30pm.