Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Learning Certificate
The Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement is proud to offer the Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Learning Certificate: a four-part learning series designed to deepen understanding and support meaningful action toward reconciliation. This certificate explores key topics, including anti-Indigenous racism in Canada, systemic barriers within educational institutions, Indigenous student experiences, and pathways for practicing allyship and righting relations.
Each session is three hours long, delivered monthly over the course of four months, for a total of 12 hours of guided learning.
To register, please visit Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Learning Certificate
Student Support Certificate Workshops
Understanding Indigenous Peoples: Foundations of Knowledge and Learning
This workshop aims to provide participants with a foundational understanding of Indigenous cultures, histories, and contemporary issues in Canada. This introductory workshop will cover the diversity of Indigenous peoples and the impact of colonization. Participants will learn about Indigenous worldviews and ongoing challenges, such as the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, land rights, and environmental justice. The workshop will conclude by providing actionable steps for participants to become allies to Indigenous peoples. View the complete Understanding Indigenous Peoples: Foundations of Knowledge and Learning workshop overview.
Supporting Indigenous Students: Pathways to Success at Carleton
This workshop aims to inform students, faculty, and staff about the resources and services available to Indigenous students while fostering a deeper understanding of their experiences at university. It will highlight key supports like the CISCE, peer mentoring, Elders-in-residence, and culturally specific mental health services. The workshop will also provide strategies for creating an inclusive classroom environment and addressing challenges faced by Indigenous students, such as cultural dislocation and intergenerational trauma. Through panel discussions, group conversations, and allyship training, participants will learn how to better support Indigenous students. The session will end with a brainstorming activity to generate new ideas for enhancing student support, alongside resource materials and follow-up opportunities for continued engagement. View the complete Supporting Indigenous Students: Pathways to Success at Carleton workshop overview.
One-Off Facilitations on Indigenous Topics
In addition to our certificate offerings, the Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement also provides one-time facilitated sessions tailored for classrooms, team meetings, or department gatherings. These sessions are grounded in Indigenous pedagogies and offer space for thoughtful, community-based learning and dialogue.
We have facilitated discussions on a range of topics, including:
- The Indian Act and Its Legacy
- MMIWG2S+ and gender-based violence
- Land and water rights (e.g., Wet’suwet’en, land back movements)
- Indigenous health and mental wellness
- The justice system and overrepresentation in incarceration
- Harmful sports mascots and stereotypes
- Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental stewardship
- Indigenous arts, music, and storytelling
- Understanding and addressing anti-Indigenous racism
- Indigenous pedagogies and ways of knowing
- Decolonizing the classroom/workplace
- Indigenous student support and safe(r) spaces
- Responding to stereotypes and harmful representations
- Legislation (e.g., UNDRIP, Bill C-92, Bill C-15) and their implications
To inquire about a facilitation, please book an appointment here!