New this Fall!
The IndigenEYEZ Certificate in COMMUNITY RESTORATION
Tired of frustration and burnout?
Ready for a new way of working in community?
Join our reSTORY Certificate Program!
A pathway for creating strong teams connected by shared vision
Our reSTORY program builds capacity within communities so that each of us can create space for the difficult and tender conversations that are needed to repair relationships and revitalize Indigenous worldviews.
Who Is Restory For?
reSTORY responds to the unique challenges of working in community.
• Faced with compounding trauma
• Internal team conflicts
• Unsure how to resolve differences
• Entrenched power dynamics
• Stuck in crisis mode
This program is for community champions in every form. On or off reserve. As auntie, parent, grandparent, or helper. If you live for community, work for community, or dream for community, YOU are a community champion
• Staff from every sector
• Everyday leaders from Chiefs & Councils to Elders and youth
• Anyone who wants to make change in community
restore healthy relationships
What Will I Learn?
reSTORY shares practices to restore relationships, reweave kinship networks, and strengthen the web of community.
This is a framework for community transformation that supports long-term healing.
• Navigate conflict thoughtfully and with care
• Foster healthier communication patterns at work
• Create safer space to bridge differences
• Restore connection
• Cultivate community-driven change
• Take action instead of just talking about it
A few simple tools can make a surprising difference. "All or nothing" is a colonial mentality—small practices that we can do every day will bring us closer to one another.
Join us in restoring what colonization disrupted!
Grounded in Culture: Everything we do is rooted in Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and learning. We share ways to create gatherings that are different—where open conversations can happen, where hard truths can be spoken, and where people leave feeling stronger and more connected.
reSTORY offers a pathway for returning to our Indigenous ways of leading from the strength of our relationships with one another and with the land.
reweave kinShip across generations
How Does It Work?
Drawing on years of engagement, we have intentionally created this certificate program to move these essential skills into community in a cost-effective and accessible way.
Accessible: Sessions are online every second Thursday morning from October to May.
Flexible: You can start with one micro-credential or take all 4 and get the reSTORY Certificate. In future years, you can add workshops to deepen your learning.
Affordable Fees on a Sliding Scale: The cost for each micro-credential is $400. But we currently have a Pay-What-You-Can approach that includes a No Cost option. See our registration page for more info.
Each micro-credential consists of 4 workshops x 2.5 hour each for a total of 10 hours of online training plus readings and self-reflection activities
The IndigenEYEZ certificate in community restoration
Join Us for a Transformative Experience
We use the 4 Food Chiefs as our framework—timeless syilx teachings about the different strengths needed for sustainable change.
4 FOOD CHIEFS = 4 MICRO-CREDENTIALS
Each micro-credential consists of workshops designed around values that build stronger teams and transform communities.
MICRO-CREDENTIAL #1 skəm̓xist | Black Bear
MICRO-CREDENTIAL #2 spíl̓əm | Bitter Root
MICRO-CREDENTIAL #3 siyaʔ | Saskatoon Berry
MICRO-CREDENTIAL #4 n'tytyix | Salmon
Why did we create reSTORY?
For over 10 years, IndigenEYEZ has been delivering community-based trainings and we have heard the same issues from First Nations across BC and beyond. Colonization disrupted our kinship systems and created cycles of conflict. Intergenerational traumas continue to compound the crises faced by our children and families. The colonial system isn’t broken—it was built to be like this. The harm we see is the intended effect of a system built to erase Indigenous ways, knowledge, and connection.
Our work is anchored in the belief that we need to start by understanding how colonization has impacted us—and continues to today. The reSTORY program shares skills for rebuilding what colonization tried to break—the relationships that hold us together.
In Syilx ways of knowing we recognize snaqsilxw, which means that we share one skin. We are deeply interconnected. Our children and youth thrive when there is a healthy web of community connections around them. When our young ones feel this connection, they know who they are, where they belong, and how deeply they are loved.
reSTORY is designed to build capacity within communities so that each of us can create space for the difficult and tender conversations that are needed to repair relationships and revitalize Indigenous worldviews.
REBUILD connection. REVITALIZE culture. RESTORE community.
