Restorative Approach

Our final Rainbow Rights workshop will be presented on Zoom, March 25th, 6-8 PM. We've had great groups again this round, and we'd love to see you for our last session!

All sign-up details for this FREE 2-hour workshop can be found by scanning the QR code in the event image or by following the link in the comments.

In the Rainbow Rights workshop, we review such topics as:
✨ human rights protections, including provincial and federal human rights legislation,
✨ how to self-advocate in grounded, sustainable ways

Why work hard to be right when you could work smarter and feel relief?

Relationships rooted in trust move from disconnection to collaboration.

Visit us at restorativeapproach.ca to learn how we can help!

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is not a symbolic gesture — it requires the daily practice of upholding peaceful relations and repairing the harms we commit as we go, with our families, our friends, our colleagues, our communities. We must live our lives in ways that do not perpetuate tools of harm and oppression, and we must find a way to keep moving toward healing and love.

One resource we encourage others to connect with is the story Fatty Legs (Annick Press), the memoir of residential school survivor Olemaun (Margaret) Pokiak-Fenton, co-written with Christy Jordan-Fenton. This illustrated story follows 8-year-old Margaret who dreams of learning to read and who begs her family to take her to residential school. There, the rupture between Margaret and her culture begins. The 10th-anniversary edition contains new materials, including a foreword by noted Indigenous scholar Debbie Reese (Nambé Pueblo), founder of American Indians in Children’s Literature.

Restorative Approach founder, Shila LeBlanc, had the honour of working with Margaret and Christy on an art project related to Fatty Legs. Read her reflections on the blog: www.restorativeapproach.ca/journal/ntdr2025