NISC hosting Leadership & Storytelling workshop

The Northern Indigenous Stewardship Circle is hosting a first of its kind retreat this week as part of their Northern Guardians Leadership program.

Known as “Embrace Your Story”, this retreat has invited 15 people from BC, the Yukon, and the NWT to the Yellowknife Ski Club to work on developing their leadership skills by focusing on the role of the stories of Indigenous peoples sacred responsibility and connection to the land, water and animals.

Kyanna Lennie-Dolphus, a workshop participant from Tulita, explained why she joined this workshop, stating “I really wanted to expand my experience and knowledge into leadership to get them a bigger role, especially working with community members and youth as well as elders.”

“I feel like I’m trying to find a fine line between traditional knowledge, as well as Western science and knowledge of that, and try to better communicate with people within my community.”

The Northern Indigenous Stewardship Circle (NISC), a project of MakeWay Charitable Society, based in Yellowknife has launched this pilot program to meet a call to action from northern Guardians to provide more professional development opportunities.

“We designed this workshop to improve and feel more comfortable with storytelling.” Amos Scott, NISC project director, “Storytelling is a powerful tool in indigenous led stewardship, and Guardians are on the front line in that work.”

This workshop is being attended by 8 participants from the Yukon, Northern British Columbia and the Northwest Territories and 7 on the support team. The group will be working together from July 6^th to the 10^th.