nkawadzowôgan: A Center for Healing and Transformation (the Center) gathers methodologies that support the healing of shared generational harm.
Our Mission
By creating safe spaces to examine healing methodologies and have sheltered conversations, the Center accompanies accompanies communities that are impacted by colonization, systemic violence and oppression through the collective transformation of oppression into empowerment and health.
Acknowledgement of Harm
Group trauma, brought about by the cumulative effect of colonization and oppressive policies, results in high levels of shared grief and is a significant contributor to a fragmented sense of belonging which is evidenced by violence, addiction, depression and compromised health. Efforts to decolonize and resist oppression that do not resource individual and whole community healing may compound the impact of trauma.
Healing is evidenced in the capacity to make, nurture and retain connections to each other; to the land or to a place or community; to culture and to original languages. The following methodologies have been shown to interrupt the generational transmission of trauma at the individual, communal and institutional levels.
Our Divisions
Language Restoration
Supports language preservation and restoration.
Critical Thinking
Offers space and tools for reflection and critical thinking.
Common Law
Lifts up common law practices.
Stories of Resilience
Co-constructs safe spaces for communities to tell their stories from a resilience perspective.