Year Opening Talks: Listening With Respect

Indigenous Knowledge Keeper Liz Akiwenzie discusses the importance of Truth and Reconciliation.

The Zoom link can be found here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81456811590

Speaker: Liz Akiwenzie 

Speaker bio:  
Liz Akiwenzie has worked in the helping and caring field for more than 40 years. She has a background in social work and serves as a ceremonial person, Lodge Conductor, Cultural Educator for teachers and caregivers, Cultural Knowledge Keeper for Native Communities, and Healer and Medicine Person. She has also worked in the justice system, CSC and probationary services. She has shared her knowledge with health centres, mental health and addiction services and her transformative influence is felt among the students and staff at colleges and universities who have experienced her powerful lectures. 

Since 2018, The Write place has opened its academic year, along with its tutor preparation by reflecting on, and committing to, ethical and philosophical principles that uphold educational equity and enrichment through diversity. We invite the wider King’s community to reflect with us as we listen to experts with lived experience. In this session, Knowledge Keeper Liz Akiwenzie discusses the importance of Truth and Reconciliation and our shared responsibility to decolonize and Indigenize educational spaces and practices.