Professional
Membership
This membership is for providers who offer direct services to Indigenous client. Providers will have the opportunity to promote their Culturally Committed identity via printed, physical, and digital resources, and will have access to client feedback that can be utilized to improve the cultural safety of their practice.
Organizational
Membership
Begin your journey to cultural safety with our Organizational Membership. Designed for teams ready to embrace cultural humility, this membership offers tailored workshops, community calls, and access to a wealth of resources led by experienced mentors. Join a community dedicated to fostering respectful relationships and enhancing your organization's cultural competence.
If you are interested in our workshops but aren't ready to commit to a Membership,
you can choose to register for a Culturally Committed Workshop Series.
(Workshop Series are INCLUDED in the Membership)
Steering Our Own Vessels: Parallel Relationships of Western and Indigenous Medicines and Practices
March Workshop with Amy Lamb, Métis, Executive Director of IPPC
Date: March19, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
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In homage to the history of the Two-Row Wampum, this presentation is titled "Steering Our Own Vessels: Parallel Relationships of. Western and Indigenous Medicines and Practices.
As the 1600s Haudenosaunee and Dutch began to share territories, an agreement was made as to how they were to treat each other and live together. Each of their ways would be shown in the purple rows running the length of a wampum belt. “In one row is a ship with our White Brothers’ ways; in the other a canoe with our ways. Each will travel down the river of life side by side. Neither will attempt to steer the other’s vessel.”
This presentation will center on the importance of Western-trained health professionals and Indigenous Healing and Medicines Knowledge Keepers defining and steering their own vessels (health practices) in the care of Indigenous patients. Western-trained Indigenous health professionals play a vital role in translating the values of distinctions-based health ideologies. They are currently advocating for the equality of space in Canadian health systems, which privilege Western biomedical models of health. This presentation will focus on the experiences of the speaker, a Métis pharmacist, and the organization she represents, the Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada, both working to foster a collaborative approach to the care of Indigenous patients. It will illustrate the interface of Western and Indigenous healing and the importance of humility, relationships, and shared foundations in finding synergies in patient-centred care.
"...Elders talk about how you never go to visit someone empty handed, meaning when you go to ask someone a question, you'd bring them an offering. A fish, a blanket, some beads, something."
Jared Qwustenuxun Williams
Knowledge Keeper, Unceded Quw'utson Territory
At Culturally Committed, we are determined to do this work in a good way. This is why all of our workshop contributors receive compensation, and honorariums are provided to our incredible Mentors.
