When

     Saturday, December 13th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET.

Where

Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge (1249 Dozois Rd, Ottawa, ON K4M 0E2)

Costs

  Free for OASW Members

Event Capacity:

20 participants

Event Description

You will be welcomed into the Sacred Space of Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge, for Indigenous Teachings and Healing by the Fireside. After Smudging, an Indigenous cleansing ritual, participants will be invited to sit around the fire (on meditation pillows) to listen to Jenny share Indigenous Teachings while enjoying Cedar tea and bannock.

For the second half of your time at the Lodge, you will be invited to lay down on a yoga mat ( yoga mats will be provides) by the fire and will be guided on a journey of Healing on all levels of wellbeing. Jenny specializes in ancient doctoring, which is a form of energy healing. It will ensure your mind feels at ease, your body rested, and your heart at peace, so that you leave the Lodge feeling lighter and more grounded.

You will be invited to make time to be in ceremonial kinship with the Earth, exploring the Healing Forest and allowing yourself time to process and integrate your healing, while listening to the Wisdom of the Spirits of the Land.

Drinks, lunch and snacks will be available to ensure you are well hydrated and nourished.

Speaker

Jenny Sawanohk, Mihko-Asiniy-Kinepik-Iswew, is a proud member of Moose Cree First Nation, the Mosoniy-Illilew. She was born and raised in Moosonee, Ontario, and the beautiful James Bay Lowlands and OMushkegowuk territory. She is honoured to reside on the unceded and ancestral territory of our Algonquin kin, the traditional land and water stewards of the Ottawa area, where she owns and operates the Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge. This is where she also operates her private practice, Red Stone Snake Woman, as an Indigenous healer/psychotherapist.

Jenny has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and is a Master of Social Work graduate. She has extensive work experience in Child Welfare and Children’s Mental Health and is very passionate about Indigenous Social Work. She has created the first of its kind programming for Indigenous youth-in-care that aims to ensure they receive culturally sensitive and competent identity-based healing opportunities. Jenny believes it is paramount that youth have access to the land, culture, elders, traditional healers and ceremonies.

Birthed from this Calling, Jenny developed workshops that educate the professionals servicing Indigenous youth and their families. She provides this training on many different platforms throughout the province. It is through this work that Jenny became a Truth and Reconciliation Specialist, educator, advocate, and motivational speaker.

Jenny has sat in the circles of many Elders and Knowledge Keepers. She has dedicated her life to studying traditional Medicine Work with Indigenous Healers. She is passionate about reconnecting to Ancestral Wisdom and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, the Medicine and Teachings from the Land, our beautiful Mother Earth, and with bringing back the Original Instructions to all Humanity. She is a Feather Keeper and Artist, and with Bird Medicine and in honouring the Winged Relations, she creates Spiritual Tools that help people heal and step into their soul purpose and calling.

Through all of these roles, Jenny inspires people to see their light, understand their gifts, to reclaim their power and take their place within the Sacred Hoop and Eternal Web of Life.

REGISTRATION QUESTIONS:

OASW is committed to inclusion and promoting a diverse range of identities, experiences, perspectives, and voices across all areas of the Association. As such, the registration contains some optional questions that are intended to assist us to better understand our social work community and ensure that our work is reflective of the diverse membership of OASW and our profession.