An Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility Approach to Understanding and Addressing Conflict

Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility (ICS&H) works to address societal disparities by noticing and attempting to sort through colonization from Indigenous perspectives. This includes surfacing and addressing biases, attitudes, and behaviours within oneself and the structures of systems.

Utilizing relational, community building practices ICS&H seeks to create a safe enough learning setting where participants can increase their awareness of colonization (on all of us), increase self-awareness, and strengthen intercultural behaviours and skills rooted in respect and analysis of patterns of systemic oppression. This approach helps to build skills to utilize mutual relationality to sort through conflict, making difficult decisions, and building collaborative, Trauma-Sensitive, and equity based professional practice and organizational processes.

About the Facilitator

Harley Eagle is of Dakota and Ojibway Indigenous heritage and a long time resident on Vancouver Island. He is a well experienced consultant and trainer in the fields of transforming conflict, anti-racism, dismantling oppression, cultural safety and trauma healing as well as an Indigenous Cultural Safety educator for the Regional Health Authority on Vancouver Island.  He is often contracted to consult and advise organizations, companies and government agencies and invited to speak at conferences both nationally and internationally on issues pertaining to his work. Harley looks to Indigenous life ways to guide his work.