Take Action on Reconciliation
As individuals—and as organizations—all Canadians share responsibility for the courageous conversation that will help make reconciliation real.
TABLE TALKS equips organizations to host peer-learning conversations about colonization and reconciliation. The kinSHIFT team supports your organization with orientation training, coaching, user-friendly hosting guides, training videos, and handouts for your guests.
With TABLE TALKS, you don’t need to be an expert—all you need is the willingness to engage in this opportunity to learn from our past and re-imagine a better future.
TABLE TALKS is our response to the many settlers who have asked us for support to learn how to talk about colonization and its impacts on all of us.
Table Talks conversations are a space to deepen curiosity and understanding about how colonial mindsets shape our relationships with each other.
These conversations lay the foundation for settlers and Indigenous peoples to work together to create a future that benefits all of us—and our children.
Courageous conversations are challenging. People are afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing.
TABLE TALKS shares a well-resourced path for positioning your organization to take action on reconciliation and: • Stop being paralyzed by fear;
• Take on the emotional labour instead of putting it on Indigenous people; • Find common ground within your workplace for activating organizational commitments.
LUNCH & LEARN
Table Talks for Organizations
Take an important step on your reconciliation journey.
JOIN US OCT 3 at NOON PST
Table Talks for Organizations
Reconciliation is a new process for this country. We have generations of troubling truths to understand and work through.
TABLE TALKS offers practical ways of finding the path forward for your team. This Indigenous-designed program offers a structured process and professional resources for holding meaningful conversations with colleagues.
- Stop being paralyzed by the fear of doing it wrong
- Take on the emotional labour of unpacking the truths of colonization
- Move past performative reconciliation
- Find common ground within your workplace for activating organizational commitments
Join us on October 3rd for a Lunch & Learn.
Meet our team and learn how Table Talks can help your organization move forward with these important objectives.
LET'S CONNECT!
We offer supported pathways that are responsive to your readiness and capacity. Pricing is on a sliding scale with revenues going to support the programs of IndigenEYEZ.
Meet with our team to explore how Table Talks can support your context and objectives.
Book a time with kinSHIFT's Charmaine Lyn
Or email us at enquiries@kinSHIFT.ca
Looking for info to share with your employer? Download this overview of Table Talks.
Support Indigenous Changemakers
kinSHIFT is a social enterprise of IndigenEYEZ, an Indigenous-led initiative whose mission is to raise up emerging Indigenous leaders and equip them with tools to help communities come together to build a better future for our children and future generations.
Revenue generated through kinSHIFT supports IndigenEYEZ to offer powerful programs that uplift Indigenous community champions of all ages—with a special focus on women and 2Spirit+ peoples.
Table Talks for Individuals
"Learning is relational and experiential," says Kelly Terbasket, Program Director with IndigenEYEZ. "To really create change, we need to be in motion with it. We need to reframe and rethink." Kelly, who has syilx Okanagan and European heritage, has spent her life bridging the histories that lie between Indigenous people and settlers in this country.
She brought these insights to the creation of Table Talks as part of our kinSHIFT offerings, providing a means of supporting settlers to learn and process the truths that must come before reconciliation.
WANT TO BE A HOST? Individuals who are interested in hosting Table Talks discussions in their communities are supported with professional resources and coaching from the kinSHIFT team.
kinSHIFT and IndigenEYEZ gratefully acknowledges the support of the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen for catching the vision and helping to develop and pilot the Table Talks Guidebook and resources.
Apply for a Neighborhood Small Grant (NSG) to bring Table Talks to your community
Bursaries for Table Talks hosts are available thanks to the NSG grassroots funding that empowers folks to lead local projects that foster connections.
In partnership with the Community Foundation of South Okanagan Similkameen (CFSOS), NSG has 20 bursaries available for Table Talks hosts.
For the NSG bursary, you need to create an account on the grant portal. Enter your first and last name as the Organization and use 000000000RR0000 as the CRA Number. If you need assistance, please contact us.
Table Talks is a partnership between kinSHIFT and the
Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen (CFSOS).
We gratefully acknowledge funding from CFSOS and the Vancouver Foundation.
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