Reconciliation and Indigenous-focused Learning
Arrive Consulting provides customized training and curriculum development for reconciliation and cultural safety learning. We also develop specialized curriculum for Indigenous learners.
Our learning approach is holistic and embodied, safe and non-judgemental, participatory and skills-based, celebratory and creative. We aim to leave learners with actionable next steps to support reconciliation, as individuals or as an organization.
We have developed and delivered dozens of reconciliation and Indigenous-focused learning programs, from 1-hour sessions to 3-day workshops.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Culturally-informed courses and resources for Indigenous learners on topics such as language and cultural revitalization, financial literacy, human rights, retirement planning, housing skills, employment, and more.
- Indigenous cultural safety in healthcare
- The impacts of colonization, ongoing and historical
- Indigenous resistance, resilience and resurgence
- Relationship building with Indigenous communities
- Working in an “Ethical Space” or “Two-Eyed Seeing” way
- Anti-racism, oppression and privilege
- Working with Elders
- Indigenous rights
- Indigenous worldviews
- Indigenous pedagogy
- Making mistakes and overcoming fear
- Indigenous protocols and engagement
- Territorial Acknowledgements
- Residential schools
For curriculum develop projects, we use the ADDIE model, a gold-standard for adult learning design. The basic approach is to determine the current state of the target learner, the end goal of the learning, and then develop a program to support the learner to attain and apply the desired knowledge. This approach ensures that the curriculum aligns with the intended learning goals. We also integrate common Indigenous learning approaches into the design process, for example including storytelling, inter-generational learning, and learning from experience. There are five stages included the ADDIE approach:
- Analysis: Determine the current learning needs of the target audience, and the learning goals of the program.
- Design: Create an outline or blueprint of the learning program and determine delivery format.
- Development: Create the learning solution to bring learners from the current state to the desired end state.
- Implementation: The learning program is delivered to learners.
- Evaluation: Assess whether the learner program has allowed learners to meet the desired learning objectives, and if not what needs to be adjusted.
To learn more about Reconciliation Learning, see our signature workshop “The Net and Paddle Experience,” or design your own tailored learning experience with the Called to Action Collaborative.
