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“Registration is Open” KAIROS Blanket Exercise Teaching & Sharing Circles

By Connor Sarazin September 22, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

‘Building Positive Relationships between Indigenous & non-Indigenous Peoples’ Led by Indigenous Knowledge Keepers with extensive experience facilitating the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE), these interactive Zoom-based sessions aim to build positive…

Nadine Ens and her daughter Jenice Ens tie knots in a comforter

MCC Connects with Supporters

By Connor Sarazin September 18, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

September 9, 2020 | News | Volume 24 Issue 19Janet Bauman | Eastern Canada Correspondent “One bar of soap isn’t just a drop in the ocean of need. The ripples keep moving out in…

Indigenous curriculum key to Reconciliation in Canada

By Connor Sarazin September 11, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

In 2018, KAIROS was encouraged by progress made by provincial and territorial governments in implementing the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada’s Call to Action 62.i (Education for Reconciliation). That year,…

Accepting Bookings

By Connor Sarazin August 20, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

As of September 1, 2020, KAIROS is once again accepting bookings for in-person KAIROS Blanket Exercises (KBEs) across all regions. To ensure the health and well-being of participants, hosts, and…

Connecting Indigenous Communities to Health Care

By Connor Sarazin July 6, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

Unity Health Toronto, supports KAIROS Blanket Exercise through their Indigenous Community Advisory Panel. Read the article from St. Michael's Hospital here.

Justice Murray Sinclair "Education is what got us here, and Education is what will get us out."

Changing the world one KAIROS Blanket Exercise story at a time

By Connor Sarazin April 1, 2020UncategorizedNo Comments

Words cannot express the gratitude for every time we are called upon to offer the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE). It is an honour to meet with participants who, for the…

Walk with Me

By Connor Sarazin March 2, 2020ArticlesNo Comments

A lesson plan toward reconciliation By Allison Zacharias Education is key to reconciliation and the key to good education is a lesson plan that sticks. The Blanket Exercise is one…

Facilitators for the program Chris McDougall, Diane Campeau, and Tim Poitras.

Learning History Through Participation – The KAIROS Blanket Exercise

By Connor Sarazin January 31, 2020ArticlesNo Comments

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise program was held in Weyburn on Wednesday, January 29th, brought here by South East District in partnership with Weyburn Arts Council, Southeast Regional Library, PLURA Churches, and Canadian…

Sharing an Indigenous point of view at KAIROS Blanket Exercise

By Connor Sarazin January 28, 2020ArticlesNo Comments

Seeing, hearing for yourself, and experiencing the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada is something that a group of people in Strathmore practiced last night at the KAIROS…

"As part of its ongoing walk toward #reconciliation, @mhcc_ staffers took part in the @kairoscanada blanket exercise. Here's what that was like: https://ctt.ec/uA26_+

New understanding of Indigenous history inspires MHCC staff

By Connor Sarazin January 15, 2020ArticlesNo Comments

As twenty Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) staff members seated themselves in a circle in a small, windowless room, a sense of trepidation was in the air. While some…