2022 Indigenous Awareness Workshop
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
June 22, 2023 Stony Plain and Parkland Pioneer Museum $180 + GST for GPRC Members
Sarah Parry Economic reconciliation is estimated to boost the Canadian Economy by $27.7 Billion. Economic prosperity is found through relationships of mutual respect and by working together for all Canadians to enjoy the same social and economic outcomes.Date and Time
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM MDT
9AM - 4PMLocation
Founders BuildingFees/Admission
$240 + GST for non-MembersContact Information
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Description
This one day course is designed to enhance understandings in an effort to build trusting and respectful relationships with Indigenous people. Often, these new understandings result in the ability to better develop, implement, and maintain collaborative agreements and partnerships for mutual benefit and to enhance human resource relations.
Main topics will include:
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Call to Action #92:
Lunch will be provided.
The workshop will be facillitated by Shelly Mandeville
Shelly Mandeville is a CEO and co-founder of three companies operating in the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Alberta. She was born in the NWT into a Dene-Métis family. During her formative years she watched and learned as her parents operated several small businesses; however, the greatest nurturer of Shelly’s entrepreneurial spirit was her Métis grandfather. As a teen, he would fascinate her with stories about the family-owned, trading post, warehousing and transportation company operating in the early 1900s and how, in one fell-swoop, everything was taken from him and the family due to the colonial policies of the time. His words became inspiration to her as she co-founded In Synch Consulting Inc. (ISCI), a boutique consulting business in 2008; Naoka Incorporated, servicing the oil and gas industry in 2011; and Wildrose Contractor Supports Ltd., a bookkeeping and entrepreneur administrative support business in 2020. All of Shelly’s businesses focus on the fundamentals of where she came from and on a better future for individuals and communities. Shelly is committed to leading change. Her entrance into the competitive, male-dominated resource sector upon starting Naoka Inc., is further proof of her tenacity and resiliency.