Indigenous/First Nations People and the Effects of Historical Trauma

Friday, 20 October 2023 9:00 AM - Saturday, 21 October 2023 5:00 PM EDT

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

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Friday, 20 October 2023 9:00 AM - Saturday, 21 October 2023 5:00 PM EDT

Teraanga Commons, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada.

Indigenous/First Nations People and the Effects of Historical Trauma Contributing to Complex Grief

 

The discovery of over 1,300 unmarked graves of Indigenous First Nation children at former residential school sites across the country has shocked Canadians. National outrage has triggered calls for a reckoning over Canada's residential school legacy.

For Indigenous First Nations people, the findings of these graves have exposed old wounds and refreshed the sense of loss so many families experienced as their children were forcibly taken away to residential schools.

The grief and trauma from these experiences have had a profound effect on First Nations people, igniting a variety of mental health symptoms and, for many, creating a sense of disconnection from themselves and their relationship with others.

Understanding how these institutions have affected whole communities and families is key to helping Indigenous First Nations clients heal from the grief and begin to decolonize.

Shelley Spear Chief, a Clinical Social Worker and a leading First Nation Presenter on issues of historical trauma to present a Two-Day workshop entitled Working with Complex Traumatic Grief Within Indigenous First Nation Peoples: the shock of the unmarked graves and how to support clients from a cultural lens.

Her presentation is designed to give mental health therapists, front line support workers, an increased understanding of the historical effects of grief and how it is now identified as complex complicated grief.

In this workshop, Shelley will explain how the finding of unmarked graves has exacerbated the symptoms of complex grief. She will identify obstacles in healing due to the enormous effects of suicide, opioid crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Participants will also learn how to detect the different types of grief experienced by Indigenous First Nation Peoples. Gain an awareness of the importance of a trauma informed decolonial practice for the future generations.

“The most important thing you have to have with our people is a relationship,” says Spear Chief. Even if it’s online, when you invite your client in, invite them to have a coffee or a tea so that they feel they are having a visit. They have to feel safe, that they can trust you.”

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Kaysspakii, Shelley Spear Chief is a Clinical Social Worker who specializes in trauma. As a Leading First Nation Presenter on issues of historical trauma and utilizing traditional practices in counselling integrating her cultural ways of understanding and working with First Nation clients who have experienced trauma. She and her spouse Moses Spear Chief presented at the NMT Trauma Conference in Banff, AB with Dr. Bruce Perry. In addition, she has presented with leading International Psychologist Dr. Sandra Paulsen on Ego States, Dissociation and working with Indigenous First Nation People also known as Native Americans for ISSTD and The Steve Frankel Group. She is an advanced EMDR Certified Trauma Therapist who utilizes a variety of psychotherapy modalities including Hypnotherapy and is a certified Clinical Trauma Professional trained through the International Association of Trauma Professionals. She has been working within the school environments for the last twenty years working with youth identified with “at hope behaviors”. She has worked in a variety of sectors; First Nation clinical lead/consultant for two school divisions for the past eight years. In addition to the education sector, Shelley has years of experience working within children services, first nation women shelter’s and within her private practice, “Healing Pathways EMDR Counselling and Consultation Services”. One of her many passions is educating mentors, leaders, educators, and support staff in de

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