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IndigenEYEZ is about transforming communities. Our mission is to inspire an intergenerational legacy of well-being among First Nations people in BC and beyond.

We blend land-based learning with the arts and best practices in community-building. Our approach—the Creative Empowerment Model—is being used around the world. It has been refined over the past two decades by Partners For Youth Empowerment (www.PartnersForYouth.org), an organization that generously shares its knowledge with many partners. IndigenEYEZ has adapted this approach especially for First Nations.

Watch highlights from our first summer youth camp • Kelowna, BC • August 10-14, 2015

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Leadership Essentials: Hollyhock
Date: June 5th-9th, 2019
Location: Hollyhock, Cortes Island BC
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IndigenEYEZ Leadership Training Camp
Date: July 14th - 21st, 2019
Location: Teepee Camping, Hedley BC
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Thank you Madeline and Anonymous for your donations - every dollar counts! Your support for our Gathering Place tent is a gift that will continue to give for many years to come!
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Tent rental for our 7-day camp is $5,000. The cost to purchase one is $16,000. Since we began hosting camps in 2015, we’ve paid over $20,000 in tent rental fees. Help us reduce yearly costs, and increase our ability to respond to the demand for more wilderness trainings!
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Donate today! LINK IN BIO ☝☝☝ Every dollar counts! Your generosity today will change lives tomorrow!
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We have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy our own Gathering Place tent!
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The Gathering Place is the heart of our land-based camps. With your help, we hope to raise enough to buy our own tent in time for the IndigenEYEZ summer camp that starts July 14th in the beautiful Similkameen Valley.
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Tent rental for our 7-day camp is $5,000. Since we began hosting camps, we’ve paid enough in fees to buy our own tent and more. We are asking for your help to reduce our costs and increase our ability to respond to the demand for more wilderness trainings.
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Every dollar counts. Your generosity today will change lives tomorrow!
Donate today! LINK IN BIO ☝☝☝
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With much gratitude. limləmt! .
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On May 21, IndigenEYEZ is launching a #crowdfunding campaign to buy our own Gathering Place tent. Our goal is to purchase this key piece of equipment instead of paying rental bills of $5,000 per camp. In the last 4 years, we've paid more in fees than it will cost to buy our own tent. Over the next 6 weeks, with your help, we are hoping to raise $16,000 to buy a Gathering Place before our 2019 camp starts on July 14th.
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Help us invest in our own gear, so we can invest more in our youth!
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Every donation counts. Look for more details after the long weekend.
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Become a leader who can mobilize people behind a shared vision. Join us June 5th-9th at @hollyhocklife for a life changing experience! A team of facilitators and mentors will take you through an empowering and deeply engaging journey.
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The Five Selves will be woven throughout the 5 days, using a variety of arts and lands based processes. What are the Five Selves? In our latest video, Co-founder Kim Haxton (@k_haxton) describes this traditional formula that can heal. .
Visit our website to learn more or to register for this life changing experience!
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#Friday is the last session of #ChampionsofChange! Join us and discover the applicable benefits of land-based knowledge for your work and your community. Visit our website for more details and to register - link in description.
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Here’s some of the positive feedback we’ve received since starting this program last November:
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“I grew closer to the people in my community.”
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“It literally gave me goosebumps.”
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“I left feeling like I can be a leader.”
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“I loved having a safe place for self expression.”
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“I felt like I was really heard.” .
“You’ve created family here!”
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Thank you to everyone who has attended!
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Our summer camp is just three months away! From July 14th-21st we will be returning to the same ancestral land as last years youth camp, just outside of Hedley, BC. Visit our website to register!
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But what is IndigenEYEZ? In this interview, co-founder Kim Haxton talks about the meaning of our name, and how IndigenEYEZ brings together where we are coming from, and where are we going.
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At every camp, we strive to bring together a truly diverse group of youth and staff, and aim for diversity of all kinds: gender, age, LGBTQ2S, cultural, life experience, and backgrounds. Our small youth-to-staff ratio allows us to provide a safe environment where mentorship relationships can thrive.

Camp Registration is now open!! Our 2019 IndigenEYEZ Leadership Training Camp will support our emerging indigenous leaders, ages 15 to 30, to become healthy & impactful change makers, activists and ambassadors for our land and water.
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Our camps provide a learning experience that brings creativity and the arts together with culture and on-the-land activities. Our facilitators are trained to create a safe and welcoming space for all participants.
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Building a strong sense of community is central to our program – participants leave with new friends and mentors who can support them as they grow in their environmental leadership, and cultural & community building work.
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Each day, choose from exciting arts and nature-based workshops led by our staff of inspiring artists, musicians, naturalists and change makers. Our small youth-to-staff ratio allows us to provide a safe environment where mentorship relationships can thrive.
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Seats are limited!
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Don’t miss out on this life-changing experience!
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Visit our website to register
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Testimonials

The power of human beings opening up and sharing their vulnerability amongst total strangers is immeasurable, and that is what this work does. It shows us the way back to our authentic beautiful, creative selves.

AHS Edmonton Participant

IndigenEYEZ energized me: the facilitators lifted my spirits, they gave me a sense of belonging to my self, to aboriginal people, to our traditions, and to our culture. They empowered me to make changes in myself and step out of the box.

Mel - AHS Edmonton

Youth need to laugh, be light-hearted, feel, not be afraid to make noise, safely break and make rules, use their leadership skills. All of the exercises in this training do exactly that.

Training Participant

This camp helped me realize who I am, that I am beautiful, that we are all beautiful.

Youth, Okanagan Nation Camp

I just want to say that I had a great time here in this workshop. I have learned so much being here and I enjoyed the whole two days. And thank you to all the people who made this amazing workshop happen.

Youth Care Worker

I must say it was a profoundly humbling experience for me. Made my heart and my spirit happy. I definitely went out of my comfort zone a few times, but in a good way.

Chris, Interior Health

One of the most important skills I learned with IndigenEYEZ was how to create a safe and supportive environment using the circle, theatre games and empathy consciousness. I was able to apply the skills from the empathy consciousness exercises immediately, not only within my relationship but also with my friends and family. I am so grateful for what I am learning with IndigenEYEYZ.

Leadership Essentials Participant

During the workshop a woman, an elder, expressed herself with teary eyes about empathizing with the children she worked with. It was real, raw and vulnerable. So powerful!! This work is amazingly healing.

AHS Edmonton Participant

I have used the skills many times over in my current job and would recommend anyone to take the workshops. The most significant thing I learned was how to lead a group and make it look like I know what I’m doing! It comes naturally now. It has certainly helped in my job.

Youth Care Worker

Our conference participants loved the energy, they loved stepping out of their box, having fun, and they loved the community feel IndigenEYEZ brought to them.

Christy - AHS Edmonton

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