Predictable Phases of Equity Work through an Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility Lens

When most organizations commit to embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action in Canada and begin to implement them internally, they often progress through somewhat predictable phases. This is also true for organizations that intentionally commit to Equity work, embedding Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility (ICS&H), or decolonizing their organization.

This three-hour workshop applies a framework called Predictable Phases of Equity Work developed by a group of anti-oppression organizers and facilitators who, over decades, noticed common patterns within the organizations they were working with when they embraced Equity and Anti-racism work. The framework proved to be helpful for organizations to provide them with the insights to best work through the phases.

Consultant and Facilitator, Harley Eagle, adds his ICS&H understandings and experience to the framework, which in turn assists organizations in understanding the phases and strategies to move forward with reconciliation.

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.