Workshop Content
- History of the residential school process
- History of the government belief system
- Traumas experienced by the Aboriginal peoples
- Aboriginal cultural disintegration
- Sexual abuse
- Physical, mental and associated abuses
- The long term effects and damage caused
- Lateral violence
- Healing programs and systems to help victims heal
OBJECTIVE: Participants will leave the workshop with a good awareness of the long-term damage incurred by the aboriginal community as a result of the residential school system. The workshop will also offer some healing techniques, and direct participants to programs and services to help with healing.