KAIROS Blanket Exercise in Edmonton
About this Event
Over $300 in door prizes! Mini Indigenous vendor fair! This is a public facilitation of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE), presented by LBH Business Services Inc. We are a KAIROS Canada Partner with a fully certified team. It is facilitated by Bigstone Cree Nation member Ian Hopfe, a Human Resources and Indigenous Relations Consultant, and his wife, Corinthé Stolee-Hopfe.
You may be standing for 45 minutes to 1.5 hours, but it's okay for elderly or physically challenged people to use a chair/walker/wheelchair during the exercise.
Trigger Warning: This workshop covers sensitive topics like genocide, smallpox pandemics, the 60's scoop, residential schools, and murdered or missing Indigenous women and two-spirit peoples.
This event will only happen if we have at least 15 people signed up by noon on the day of the event. The maximum number of participants for this event is 50.
Upon request, participants can get a Certificate of Participation!
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is an experiential teaching tool based on participatory popular education methodology that explores the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the land we now know as Canada.
Created in 1997 by the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC), a precursor to KAIROS, the KBE was initially meant to introduce Canadians to the major themes and findings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). The Coalition brought together Elders, Indigenous educators, and allies who wanted to make sure that RCAP and its recommendations were not shelved and forgotten.
The KBE is built on the foundation of these long-standing, collaborative initiatives and relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to raise awareness of continuing injustices and impacts of colonization and to promote further learning.
For over two decades, ARC and now KAIROS have guided its ongoing development with the leadership of Elders and Indigenous facilitators across this land.
Agenda
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Arrival, Check-in, and Vendors!
🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:10 PM
Land Acknowledgement and welcome
🕑: 06:10 PM - 06:20 PM
Intro to the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE)
🕑: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
KBE
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:10 PM
Break with snacks, drinks, small door prizes, and Vendors
🕑: 08:10 PM - 09:00 PM
Talking Circle and Debrief
🕑: 09:00 PM - 09:05 PM
Grand Door Prize!
🕑: 09:05 PM - 09:30 PM
Certificate of Participation signing, questions, and Vendors
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 43.32 to CAD 85.27
