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    • 31 Oct 2024
    • 26 Jun 2025
    • 7 sessions
    • ZOOM
    • 65
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    Are you in a leadership role in your community or agency?  Are you looking for support and learning?

    As leaders, we are being called to be more flexible and creative in a world that is ever changing. Join the STOPS Leadership Cafes to meet other collaborative leaders who are exploring challenges, learning and ways to support each other. 

    The STOPS to Violence Leadership Café is a monthly gathering where we will:

    ·        Co-create a community of mutual learning and support

    ·        Support learning and exploration of concepts and tools for collaborative leadership

    ·        Exchange information about leadership development opportunities


    • 30 Jan 2025
    • 13 Feb 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • ZOOM
    • 20

    Notice: our session is at full capacity and registration is currently closed. If you are interested in a future Decolonizing Collaboration session, keep an eye on this space and follow us on social media. You can also sign up for our bi-weekly eBulletin here to receive updates directly to your inbox.

    How do we strengthen collaboration?  How do we tackle the big, complex issues we are all facing?

    We believe that we must first come into right relationship with ourselves and each other.  We see a way forward that involves deep work to establish a Network culture that is very much about building genuinely respectful, reciprocal relationships between people who are committed to change by decolonizing the ways we work. 

    Decolonizing requires us to closely examine or “unpack” the ideas or concepts in the process of colonization in Saskatchewan and around the world.  ‘Whiteness’ is deeply embedded into the process of colonization.  The construction of “whiteness as superior” continues to negatively impact our minds, our bodies, our psyches, our spirits and our emotions as well as the land, the water, the sky and the air we breathe. This way of being tells us who has value, who doesn't, what has value, what doesn't in ways that reinforce a racial hierarchy of power and control.

    Decolonizing collaboration requires exploration of how implicit biases and colonial conditioning  shape our relationships and engagement styles—unpacking our ‘white as superior’ cultural beliefs, followed by actively constructing safeguards, accountability tools, and tangible antidotes. Understanding white privilege is a vital step that can direct our efforts to develop systemic change.

    Through a trauma-informed, anti-racist lens, we will explore how whiteness influences and impacts collaboration within a Saskatchewan context. Exploring whiteness helps us look at the value that is assigned to and endorsed by aligning with the dominant culture. We will reflect on the dominant cultural norms that influence and impact us daily.

    This three session learning series will be delivered online.  Active participation will set the foundations for a personal exploration and reflection on our participation in the values and ideals of whiteness and white supremacy culture.  Through this work, we will offer experiential learning and dialogue to uncover how whiteness and white supremacy culture impact each of us within the constructs of professionalism and work ethic.

    This course is for people who want to deepen their personal and organizational commitments to decolonization. We welcome anyone from a broad range of disciplines including community development, health, social work, policing, economic development, housing, culture, recreation, sports and government.

    This virtual learning series offers a certificate of completion.  Participants are required to attend all 3 sessions.

    Session Leaders: Becky Sasakamoose Kuffner and Lorie Harrison Visit our website to learn more about them!

    Hosted by STOPS to Violence

    We have reached full capacity for the January-February sessions. Please keep an eye on our site and social media for more offerings as they become available.

    Happening on Thursdays from 1-2:30 pm

    Two session options:

    November 21, 28, December 5 - 2024 (session complete)


    January 30, February 6, 13 - 2025 (registration closed due to max. capacity)

    • 19 Feb 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Atlas Hotel
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    Thank you for your interest in joining the Regina Provincial Organization Gathering. This Gathering is one of many across the province to talk about how we develop a coordinated, collaborative approach to violence prevention by strengthening natural supports. Click here to learn more about this initiative.  

    The Regina Gathering will be held on:

    February 19th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm at the Atlas Hotel, 4177 Albert St.

    To help us plan to host you, please RSVP as soon as possible. Please include any dietary restrictions in your sign-up details. You will receive a confirmation email confirming your attendance. We will be in touch with an agenda and other materials one week ahead of the Gathering.

    Registration closes 1 week prior to the event. If you miss the 1 week window, contact Harvey Gibson to secure your spot: harvey@stopstoviolence.com


    • 26 Feb 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Western Development Museum
    Register

    Thank you for your interest in joining the Saskatoon Provincial Organization Gathering. This Gathering is one of many across the province to talk about how we develop a coordinated, collaborative approach to violence prevention by strengthening natural supports. Click here to learn more about this initiative.  

    The Saskatoon Provincial Organization Gathering will be held on:

    February 26th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm at the Western Development Museum.

    To help us plan to host you, please RSVP as soon as possible. Please include any dietary restrictions in your sign-up details. You will receive a confirmation email confirming your attendance. We will be in touch with an agenda and other materials one week ahead of the Gathering.

    Registration closes 1 week prior to the event. If you miss the 1 week window, contact Harvey Gibson to secure your spot: harvey@stopstoviolence.com



    • 6 Mar 2025
    • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
    • ZOOM
    • 45
    Register

    Trauma & Early Childhood Wellbeing

    Resources to support Early Childhood Wellbeing

    Saskatchewan Solutions is a series of live virtual sessions featuring initiatives, tools and resources that focus on building healthy relationships and strong safe communities through violence prevention.

    Join STOPS to Violence on Thursday, March 6 from 9:30 – 11:00am for our Saskatchewan Solutions session featuring the Trauma & Early Childhood Wellbeing.

    Lee Hinton, Saskatchewan Prevention Institute, will explore the impact of trauma during early childhood and explore factors that can mitigate this impact in the short and long-term. Early childhood well-being is dependent on safe, nurturing environments where children are provided with supportive, loving, and consistent caregiving as well as opportunities to explore, grow and thrive. The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute believes that early childhood well-being is a basic human right regardless of race, culture, religion, social-economic background, gender identity, or diversity in family composition. Saskatchewan Prevention Institute resources will be highlighted during the presentation.

 We are on treaty territories, the traditional lands of First Nations people and homeland to the Métis.  We are committed to moving forward in a respectful way in the spirit of reconciliation.

Emailinfo@stopstoviolence.com

Phone: 306-565-3199

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