Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts

Our Collaborators at LIFE as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts are envisioning and enacting, reviving and promoting Transformative Healing arts by, for and with Indigenous Peoples and our Allies within existing and emerging Educational and Service Structures.

HELP US ENABLE OUR VISION

LIFE as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts is evolving towards creating a fully-Indigenized experience of training and transforming. We intend to create a national Indigenous-led School, including all Indigenous faculty and elder-supported delivery of services and trainings in Indigenous Healing Arts. We are seeking funds for start-up costs, including administrative positions to assist in completing a feasibility study, creating a business plan, and supporting registration federally and provincially as a Private Vocational Training Institute.

Financing Sought: $300,000

$75,000 administrative/finance positions

$30,000 start-up costs (registration/marketing)

$40,000 in scholarships for Indigenous students

$75,000 bond for start-up of Indigenous healing arts school

$40,000 for support services for Indigenous students in the Healing Arts (including advising, advocacy, counselling services, research support and writing)

$40,000 for GrandMothers Governance Council

Leadership Team: Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline RSW, RCAT: Jean Tait RCAT FACTAB: Jen Vivian MA

Our Leadership Team launched our first Indigenized Art Therapy and Indigenized Expressive Arts diplomas in Canada in 2020, in collaboration with an established learning institution, Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. With over 50 years of combined experience, our Indigenous Collaborative Circle is eager to lead the way for future generations to bring Healing Arts to our communities in ways that honour traditional knowledges, knowledge keepers and land -based practices.

Our Circle of Collaborators are also FUND Raising by promoting our Offerings of Relational Experiential Creative Action, including: Education; Service Provision; Social Advocacy and Activism; Staff training and professional development; and Consultation services.

If you or your Organization or Community would like to contract Collaborators on our Qualified and Experienced and Innovative Team, to help you with education and/or services And support us Fund our start up costs please contact us.

LIFE as Medicine offers both Services and Trainings, recognizing ongoing colonial legacies arising from Indian Residential Schools, Day Schools and Sixties Scoop. We seek to provide arts based trauma integrating services and trainings to address current and emerging challenges and resiliencies:

We honor Survivors and Descendants, acknowledging that expressed and yet unmet needs are specific to individuals, families, communities, nations, and ecologies, reflecting Lived Experiences, Histories, Geographies and Intersectionalities.

We nurture Indigenous children and youth, acknowledging continued colonial legacy of disproportional representation of Indigenous children in child welfare systems and mental health services. We wish to support our Descendants to rise as our hope for a more sustainable Future.

We nourish Indigenous women and girls, acknowledging historic and current high levels of gender based violence (GBV) and mortality. We are sensitive in working with the specific structural vulnerabilities we continue to experience as well recognizing embodied wisdoms gained.

We welcome Gender fluid, Trans Gendered, IndigiQueer Peoples, acknowledging high rates of suicide completion of our young people, especially in Northern Communities, and seek to restore Sacredness of our Two Spirited Ceremonial Bundles.

LIFE as Medicine offers Educational and Healing opportunities for Indigenous and Ally peoples, including post-secondary and professional in service training, that integrates Indigenous Healing Arts (including Expressive Arts, Art Therapy, Eco-Arts and Ceremonial Arts).

LIFE as Medicine provides Arts-Based Learning and Healing Opportunities to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Organizations who are offering services for and with Indigenous Peoples to assist in program transformation and to enhance sustainability for all involved.

LIFE as Medicine provides assistance to Indigenous and Ally students studying Healing Arts to assist in accessing adequate financial, emotional and academic supports necessary for success, including scholarships, bursaries, advising and advocacy.

If you or your Organization or Community are inspired by our Vision, and would like to be a Collaborator or Partner with us, please contact us.