reSTORY: A Facilitator's Journey
A four-part learning journey for Indigenous innovators ready to lead in a good way
You are invited to join IndigenEYEZ in growing a new wave of Indigenous facilitators who can skillfully guide community transformation rooted in cultural strength, relational accountability, and embodied leadership
The Four Food Chiefs
A Pathway of Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body
reSTORY is a deep learning journey for Indigenous leaders and community members ready to lead from within. This four-part series is rooted in the teachings of the Four Food Chiefs—skəm̓xist (Black Bear), spíl̓əm (Bitterroot), siyaʔ (Saskatoon Berry), and n'tytyix (King Salmon)—guiding us through the layers of Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body.
You will grow into roles such as Rooted Teacher, Connected Collaborator, Innovative Facilitator, and Motivated Coach—not as titles to wear, but as responsibilities to live.
Each Food Chief invites a powerful shift: from autopilot to awareness, from judgment to curiosity, from stuck to visionary, from hesitation to action.
This is not an anti-colonial facilitation course. It is a re-storying—a ceremony of process—where we reclaim facilitation as an Indigenous practice of transforming, co-creating and learning in a good way.
registration is open!
reSTORY Part 1: skəm̓xist (Chief Black Bear)
Learn to embody a Rooted Teacher—grounded in cultural identity, wisdom, and story. Deepen your ability to reflect, gather knowledge,
and see the bigger picture
Oct 2, Oct 16, Oct 30, Nov 13, 2025
9:30 am - 12 pm PST, online
our restory journey starts with skəm̓xist
Black Bear energy is deep, reflective, and wise. This part of the path is all about reconnecting to Spirit—to BE.
We explore how to root ourselves in cultural identity, story, and sacred ways of knowing. We pause, reflect, and listen for the wisdom that’s already within us and our communities.
This isn’t about learning from a textbook—it’s about turning to our traditions, elders, and our own experiences for guidance. skəm̓xist helps us shift from autopilot to self-awareness. From simplicity thinking to complexity wisdom.
If you’ve been searching for a way to show up in community with purpose, humility, and deep cultural grounding—this is where the journey begins.
SESSION 1
We root our leadership in Indigenous ways to lead ourselves and others toward Indigenous resurgence.
SESSION 2
We must see the system to change the system—we can't change what we can't see. In recognizing that harmful patterns of othering, excluding, hierarchy are colonial, we can stop blaming ourselves and begin to see possibilities for change.
SESSION 3
We cultivate self-awareness to understand how our beliefs are influenced by colonial patterns that perpetuate injustices against Indigenous people, so that we can change (decolonize) our own ways of seeing, being and doing.
SESSION 4
We understand from skemhist how putting protocols and traditional values into practice—wherever we are—is a powerful alternative to the way we express and experience leadership today.