Training, Workshops & Capacity Building
Binesiwag Center for Wellness (BCW) carries a vast training bundle to support the needs of your First Nation community, organization, or team.
Indigenous Family Systems
This training provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to empower and support Indigenous family systems. Participants will explore traditional ways of being and knowing, clan systems, and approaches to supporting Indigenous families within a contemporary context.
Group Facilitation
Holding Space, Guiding Process, Strengthening Voices is an interactive facilitation training designed to build participants’ confidence and skills in leading small and large groups. Through experiential learning, participants will explore effective facilitation techniques, group engagement strategies, trauma-informed practices, and culturally safe approaches that foster meaningful participation, collaboration, and inclusive dialogue. This training integrates practical tools with Indigenous-informed perspectives to support facilitators in creating respectful, responsive, and empowering learning environments.
Humanizing Transactions
Three training options available for community members, service providers and helpers. Participants will learn and gain tools necessary for supporting and working with those who have experienced or are experiencing human trafficking.
Lateral Kindness
This interactive training explores the roots and impacts of lateral violence, including colonialism, microaggressions, and systems of power and privilege. Grounded in Indigenous best practices, participants will learn the 4R’s of Lateral Kindness and explore relational practices that foster respectful, purposeful engagement and stronger community connections.
Emotional Intelligence
This two-day training focuses on strengthening participants’ capacity to recognize and regulate their emotional responses. Through trauma-informed knowledge sharing, participants will explore the difference between reacting and responding to everyday situations and develop practical skills for emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Anti-Indigenous Racism
This interactive training explores the roots and impacts of Anti-Indigenous Racism, including the historical and ongoing effects of colonialism, privilege, bias, and microaggressions on Indigenous communities. Through self-reflection, discussion, and trauma-informed learning, participants will deepen their understanding of Indigenous histories and experiences while developing practical strategies for purposeful engagement, allyship, and meaningful Reconcili-ACTION.
Team Building
This two-day training supports participants in developing the skills and practices needed to build cohesive, collaborative, and culturally safe teams. Through skill-building exercises and self-reflection, participants will strengthen communication, trust, and teamwork while enhancing their ability to work effectively with others.
Crisis Prevention & Intervention
This training focuses on building participants’ capacity to provide wholistic support to Indigenous communities, families, and individuals. Through both traditional and contemporary ways of being and knowing, participants will develop strengths-based, trauma-informed approaches for crisis prevention, intervention, and ongoing support.
Operational Management
This two-day training provides Managers and Supervisors with practical knowledge and skills to effectively lead and support their teams. Participants will explore operational management strategies, including establishing culturally safe standards of practice, employee motivation, recruitment and onboarding, performance management, and team evaluation.
Passing Our Knowledge Bundle
This two-day training supports Managers and Supervisors in developing the skills and competencies needed to effectively share knowledge, mentor staff, and foster a culture of learning within the workplace. Grounded in the 4R’s of leadership—Relationships, Respect, Reciprocity, and Responsibility—participants will explore educational leadership approaches and the role of mission, vision, and purpose-driven learning in achieving organizational success.
Child & Youth Mental Health
This training provides participants with foundational knowledge and practical skills to support the mental health and well-being of children and youth. Through a trauma-informed and strengths-based lens, participants will explore common mental health challenges, risk and protective factors, the impacts of adversity and trauma, and effective strategies for fostering resilience, building supportive relationships, and responding to mental health concerns in a safe and culturally responsive manner.
Peer Support & Lived Experience
This one-day training explores the value and impact of peer support and lived experience within helping professions and community-based services. Participants will develop practical skills for building authentic relationships, sharing lived experience safely and effectively, maintaining healthy boundaries, and fostering hope, empowerment, and recovery through strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches.
WHY CHOOSE US?
BCW trainers are rooted in lived experience, storytelling, and culture. Trainings offered by our organization are tailored specifically to your needs. All participants receive a certificate of completion post-training. If you can't find what you're looking for, be sure to message us!