Nahanee Creative

It’s not easy to meet an organization’s goals around inclusion.

How do you transform good intentions into positive impact while avoiding harms like cultural appropriation?

As a leader, you can model your commitment to truth and reconciliation by embarking on your learning and unlearning journey first. When you understand how to engage with Indigenous Peoples respectfully, you can better guide your organization toward positive change.

Indigenous Inclusion Academy offers bite-sized courses that will fit into your busy schedule. Each course can be completed in under 60 minutes, and you can review the material over 30 days to deepen your learning.

The content is also designed to be accessible to all cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds.

Are you ready to be a role model for learning?

Get started at the link in my bio:

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I recently left a harm-filled director position in a DEI department where I was tasked with increasing Indigenous hires. The role had no resources (team or budget), no authority (lots of accusations & micromanaging) and when I said this is not a safe environment, my expertise as a critical Indigenous scholar and decolonial facilitator of organizational transformation - the reasons I was hired - was dismissed.

Sound familiar? I know it does because I have listened and supported and been enraged by the stories my relatives have shared. The ongoing harm in the name of inclusion, reconciliation, and even my faves, equity and decolonization, is tucked deeply in the folds of big picture commitments to change.

The harms are in policy & process, language & need. Safety planning is surface, without a critical lens or awareness of what that means.

Hands up if you’ve been harmed by inclusion, we’re here for you!

Every game, book, seminar and media we’ve created is designed in response to the real harms we continue to endure, collectively as directors, coordinators, EAs, Elders, and so many other “______” fill in the blank, diversity roles.

Every transformative moment we facilitate, contributes to a vision for harm-free, truly equitable, critically planned for, inclusion.

With gratitude for all the organizations who really are activating critical ally ship and cultural safety. And, a big nudge to those who are ready to figure out what that means instead of denying they don’t.