choose your medicines: breakout teachings to carry with you
we'll begin together with an opening & prayer, followed by Dr. Karlee Fellner's keynote, decolonizing mental health: restor(y)ing Indigenous survivance. from there, choose two breakout teachings and gather practical medicines for your own life, relationships, work & community. we'll return to the larger circle at the end to reflect on what we're carrying forward, with optional time for questions & closing.
decolonizing mental health: restor(y)ing Indigenous survivance
understand survivance: move beyond colonial narratives of victimhood + pathology to recognize Indigenous resistance, sovereignty & ongoing presence.
recognize trauma wisdom: learn how "symptoms" can be understood as intergenerational conversations that guide us and all our relations toward balance + wellness.
(re)story mental health: deconstruct Euro-Western models of deficit + pathology, turning to iyiniwak counter-stories of wholistic wellness, relational healing, and connection to land and community.
practice decolonizing: identify practical steps to restore balance through returning to our original instructions as relations of this natural + spiritual world.
your keynote kitôkiskinwahamâkêw
Dr. Karlee Fellner
okimâw CEO + founder, ᒪᐢᑭᐦᑭᕀ maskihkiy wellness | miwâyâwin-wîcihiwêw psychologist | otipemisiwak Métis Nation of Alberta
in 2010, Karlee dove head first into a personal and professional journey of community-driven Indigenist research asking how mental health services need to change to best serve Indigenous peoples. listening to Indigenous community members, practitioners & knowledge carriers, her doctoral research brought forward seven medicines for transforming practice. these medicines have continued to shape her work through 10.5 years as a professor, 5 years as a social entrepreneur, and several years of land-based courses, programs, psychotherapy, research & community work. the maskihkiy learning lodge grows from this 16+ year journey of gathering, practicing & sharing Indigenous best practices in wellness.
choose your medicines
connect & protect — learn about vicarious & collective experiencing, alongside the #1 tool to protect against burnout & sustain wellness in helping work
right relations with difficult people — learn how to lean into transformation to navigate difficult people & relationships
genocide-informed allyship — explore what meaningful allyship looks like when we understand the ongoing impacts of genocide & colonization
(re)connecting with our plant relations — uncover how colonization has shaped our landscapes through the story of the dandelion—and (re)discover its traditional uses as food & medicine
meet your facilitators kitôkiskinwahamâkêw
Dr. Alannah Young
okiskinwahamâkêw | Peguis First Nation & Opaskwayak Cree Nation
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Dr. Stephanie Tipple
clinical owiyasiwêw | miwâyâwin-wîcihiwêw psychologist & CCC | Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation
Patti Derbyshire
okiskinwahamâkêw | educator | ally
Amie Prince
okiskinwahamâkêw | social worker & land-based facilitator | Sucker Creek First Nation
pîhtikwê. come in. gather. learn. carry it forward.
pîhtikwê is your invitation into the learning lodge—and a taste of the learning, connection & land-based wellness still to come. come gather your first medicines with us, meet some of the people carrying this work, and experience what learning differently can feel like. there is a place for you in the lodge.
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returning to our medicines: decolonizing & Indigenizing mental health
October 9, 2026, 11am PT/12pm MT/1pm CT/2pm ET/3pm AT/3:30pm NT