KGH MSA Blanket & Box CircleExercise Workshop By Dr. J. Derrick& Ms. Bonnie Van Hatten

Location: KGH Murray Ramsden Room
Register at: paymaneh.kghps@outlook.com
Maximum attendees: 30 Participants
Lunch and refreshments provided

Workshop Description

Box Circle Exercise ( 9 am – 12 pm)

Jann Derrick, PhD, R.M.F.T. is of Irish, English and Mohawk heritage and a Registered Family Therapist. Jann specializes in working with Indigenous Families, Indigenous knowledge and trauma recovery. She has published professionally about The Box and the Circle and Native Family Systems, as well as contributing to books such as The Dispossessed by Geoffrey York, Voices of Colour – First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists, Multicultural Couple Therapy, and the 2021 edition of The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy.

Jann’s recent research on clinical practice with Indigenous families is entitled ‘Kahwa:tsire. Indigenous Families in a Family Therapy Practice. She has served in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the MMIWG Commission, and with the Ministry for Children and Family Development in BC. She is a Registered Member and Supervisor Mentor in the Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy as well as a member of the Canadian Psychological Association.

Blanet Exercise (1 pm – 4 pm)

Based on Indigenous methodologies, the goal is to build understanding of our shared history. Take a journey through pre-contact, colonization, and Indigenous resistance. This workshop is participatory, experiential and decolonial. Explore a desire to work towards reconciliation with inspired dialogue and informed action. This aims to educate participants about Indigenous history and the complex nation to nation relationship between Indigenous and settler societies by engaging them in a physically interactive experience that simulates the process of colonization.