Notice:
This event occurs in the past.
POSTPONED: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Tbd event
Please note: Due to busy schedules and low registration numbers, we will be rescheduling this event.
Healthy Workplace’s mission is always to encourage staff and faculty at Carleton University to build meaningful social connections and champion wellbeing in the fullest sense. Led by Theland Kicknosway and Caley Rain-Anderson, this blanket exercise for the employee community is part of a broader effort to foster educational conversations, advocacy, respect and safety for the First Nations, Inuit and Metis members of the Carleton community, and encourage organization around anti-racism and decolonization.
About the KAIROS Blanket Exercise
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is an experiential teaching tool that explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the land we now know as Canada.
Responding to the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (which became part of KAIROS in 2001) worked with Indigenous elders and educators in 1996 to develop an interactive way to learn the history that most Canadians are never taught.
Participants will engage in kinesthetic learning about this history by walking on blankets guided by an Indigenous narrator, and role-playing Europeans to conduct a story and learn about 500+ years of Indigenous histories and current experiences across land we now know as Canada (Paige Van Tassel, 2019). This is an exercise in unlearning colonial perspectives of history taught in the Canadian public education system and learning Indigenous histories in Canada from an Indigenous point of view (Paige Van Tassel, 2019).
For any accessibility-related accommodation requests, please email HealthyWorkplace@cunet.carleton.ca