INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP

Welcome to the website of Stina Brown (she/they): Artist, writer, and systems thinker. Stina coaches, designs and facilitates because she loves people who are doing their best to change the world and knows some practical ways to help.

Decolonization is not a struggle for equal rights, but for the equal right to sovereignty.

Indigenous peoples were, and still are, politically autonomous Nations with the authority to make decisions independently. This autonomy means decolonization is about restructuring in order to restore the Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationship to one of equal power.

Collaborative PROJECTS (update coming soon!)

13 MOONS Indigenous Women’s+ Leadership with Kelly Terbasket, Co-Founder and Program Director and the IndigenEYEZ Team 2021

In this exciting IndigenEYEZ program we brought Indigenous Women+* together to honor our roles and identities, to strengthen our resiliency, and to invigorate our capacity for making the changes we want to see in our communities. We know women+ are powerful, especially when we are united. We know there is much to heal and to learn across diversity.

This program offers a unique integration of profound and practical leadership training that weaves deep inner transformation along with immediate, useful applications to everyday work priorities. Like spitsn we are weaving together syilx principles with the wisdom of participants and the knowledge of two powerful leadership training programs: the IndigenEYEZ Champions of Change and the Art of Leadership as developed by Dr. Robert Gass.

* A note about the term Women+: We use an inclusive definition. Women+ includes women, two-spirit, indigiqueer, transgender or non-binary people who see ourselves as fully, partially or sometimes female-identified.

If you are interested in supporting Indigenous leadership development please consider contributing to the work of IndigenEYEZ and if you’re interested in learning about taking real steps (as non-Indigenous people) toward healing and right relationships, consider these trainings as steps on the path: kinSHIFT: Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation.

Reconciliation Canada (2013-2019)

Reconciliation Canada, an Indigenous-led organization, began in September 2012 with a bold vision to promote reconciliation by engaging Canadians in dialogue that revitalizes the relationships between Indigenous peoples and all Canadians in order to build vibrant, resilient and sustainable communities.

Reconciliation Canada Board and Leadership Strategic Planning 2019
Purpose: To confirm the strategic plan, explore additional resources required to enable the plan, confirm board committee structures, communication strategy, and find alignment around key priorities.

Association of Mining Executives: Dialogue on Reconciliation 2019
Purpose: To engage a room full of hundreds of mining executives in a meaningful conversation around positive risk-taking, reconciliation and relationship-building

Indigenous Women’s Resilience 2018
Purpose: Gather to create dialogue on Indigenous Womens’ Leadership Resilience & Economic Reconciliation/Shared Prosperity; to collaborate and create a framework.

Reconciliation Collaborative National Strategy 2016
Purpose: An opportunity to bring together those who are actively working towards reconciliation in Canada on a daily basis, to discuss our respective strengths, circles of influence, and ways in which we are able to support one another. To better understand each organizations goals, strengths, and strategic direction for the coming 2 years.

Envisioning the first Walk for Reconciliation (which saw 70,000 people in Downtown Vancouver in September 2013)
Role: Facilitation and note-taking of ideation and visioning session

Let us find a way to belong to this time and place together. Our future, and the well-being of all our children, rests with the kind of relationships we build today. ~ Hereditary Chief Dr. Robert Joseph Gwawaenuk Elder

AHSABC Aboriginal HeadStart Association of BC (2017-2019)
Mandate/Vision: AHSABC is a leader in Aboriginal Early Childhood Education. We provide support to AHS sites to promote excellence in programming. We work with partners to develop and deliver Aboriginal Early Childhood Education resources and training.

Strategic Planning Facilitation 2018
Role: Co-design and Facilitation of Strategic Planning Session
Purpose: A two-day meeting designed to give Board members a chance to explore AHSBC’s successes and challenges, our role as leaders, and to articulate a future vision with prioritized strategic goals to 2021

National Headstart Council Conversations 2018
Role: Live Graphic Recording
Purpose: A three-day meeting designed to give HeadStart representatives from coast to coast to coast a chance to build relationships and explore AHS’s successes, challenges and opportunities.

AHSABC Elders’ Gathering 2019
Role: Live Graphic Recording
Purpose: A two-day gathering to honour AHSABC Elders and share stories and time together.

Aboriginal HeadStart BC’s Elders Gathering 2019

Wahbung 2.0: Our Tomorrows Imagined, Visions for the Next 50 Years 2019
Role: Artist in Residence, Live Graphic Recording and Studio Graphic Charts
Purpose: What could First Nations in Manitoba do to create Mino-Pimatisiwin (the good life in Cree)?

“Led by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in partnership with Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO), Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM), and the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba (RFHS), and with support from Reos Partners, this initiative continues the important work that began with Wahbung: Our Tomorrows” – engaging the 65 Nations of Manitoba and “re-energizing the movement towards the desired future articulated by Wahbung: Our Tomorrows.”
(Quoted from: Wahbung: Our Tomorrows Imagined Report pdf)

Blog Article by Reos Partners: Revisiting: Learnings from a First Nations Health Transformation Project in Manitoba

Stina and Adam Kahane at AMC Gathering

Chu Níikwän LP 2017
Mandate: Chu Níikwän LP (CNLP) works to grow the equity and resources of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) for the future benefit of all members. Investing in strategic opportunities to generate wealth for Kwanlin Dün First Nation

Role: Design and facilitation of a strategic meeting for the Board and Leadership of Chu Níikwän LP in Whitehorse, Yukon

Stina and Jessica Giesbrecht Kwanlin Dün First Nation Territory

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About Stina

Stina helps leaders see, study, and support themselves – in service of their visions for what the world can be. She designs and leads processes to create new human capacity and well-being, new shared awareness, new relationships, new trust, new vision, new clarity, and new plans. Read more about me here

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