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Gatherings, learning spaces, collaborations, and organizational activity documented across the project.
Activity, not a dated timeline
The project included facilitated learning, community gatherings, partnership development, and organizational practice change.
Project activity
We held monthly knowledge sharing sessions for staff and board members exploring topics such as feminism, decolonization, Indigenization, gender diversity and more. Sessions were led by guest speakers from diverse academic and lived-experience backgrounds, including Indigenous knowledge keepers, legal experts, academics and community members
Project activity
A one-and-a-half day gathering, guided by an Indigenous knowledge keeper, brought together women from diverse backgrounds in the community for shared healing and connection. Led with a smudging ceremony to clear negative energy, participants were led through traditional medicine-pouch making, a Mi’kmaq dice and bowl game (Waltes), expressive arts, chair yoga, a wellness walk, music therapy, and powerful moments of storytelling, including a moving Indigenous Blanket Exercise.
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View larger: A wooden bowl with dice pieces, counting sticks, and a small leather pouch arranged for the Mi’kmaq dice and bowl game during the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Handmade yellow leather pouches with drawstring cords from medicine-pouch making at the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Participants seated together with hand drums and percussion instruments during the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Participants playing a dice and bowl game at a table during the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Hands working with materials during medicine-pouch making at the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Participants taking part in a craft activity at the Wellness Gathering.
View larger: Participants seated together working with craft materials during the Wellness Gathering.Project activity
We built and developed relationships with Indigenous communities across New Brunswick – including Elsipogtog, Tobique First Nation and Under One Sky Friendship Centre – alongside immigrant serving organizations such as PRUDE, the Saint John Newcomers Centre and MAGMA alongside EFry Cape Breton.
Project activity
In accordance with the goal of better reflecting our feminist and anti-colonial values in our organizational policies, we have been reviewing and updating our policies and procedures. This has included a workshop for our organization’s board on feminist, anti-oppression and abolitionist approaches to governance.
Project activity
Developed in partnership with the law and criminology faculty and students at UNB and Université de Moncton, the Legal Liaison Program (LLP) works to close the gap between the legal system and the communities we serve by delivering a legal liaison educational program through a feminist lens. There are three programs, with training for staff and volunteers at community organizations, legal education for newcomers and a program for families living off First Nations communities in New Brunswick
