Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre

PM5 – Pastoral Ethics & Boundaries Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2019-01-21 - 2019-01-24 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Resource People: Aileen Urquhart
Learning Circle Elder: TBA
Download the registration form.

Winter Ceremonies
2018-12-22 13:00 - 18:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
A sweat will be offered at 1:00 pm, with a feast to follow. All are welcome to participate in any part of the ceremonies. Please bring a contribution of food for the feast. For more information, contact the office at 204-268-3913. Please consider a donation towards ceremonies.
You can read more about what to expect at a seasonal ceremony here.
Meegwetch, Ekosi

TH3 - Global Contextual Theology & Global Awareness Trip to Nevada/Arizona/New Mexico
2018-10-20 - 2018-11-02 | Manitoba
Dates subject to change.
Download the Learning Circle Registration form.

Annual General Meeting of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
2018-09-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Please RSVP to 204-268-3913 or email sansau@mymts.net.

Mamawe Ota Askihk - Sharing Life Together Here on Earth
2018-08-20 - 2018-08-25 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, Manitoba, R0E 0C0, Canada
Gather with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and the homemade.
Our week together will include hands-on learning about growing, harvesting and preparing medicines and foods from the land. There will be time for listening, sharing, singing, ceremony and sharing good food together. We will gather medicines, work in the garden, make moccasins, can tomatoes and more.
Come root yourself in an understanding of the land as our health. Come walk a healing path with young people. Share in the spiritual teaching, laughter, and new learning. And most importantly, taste the beauty of friendships formed through nurturing one another as the earth nurtures us.
All ages welcome.
We acknowledge the support of The United Church of Canada’s Justice and Reconciliation Fund and Mennonite Central Committee’s Indigenous Neighbours program in making this event possible.

PROGRAM

REGISTRATION
COST
TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION
CONTACT

Program
We will gather every morning for worship and reflection on the Seven Sacred Teachings. Participants will be able to move between hands-on activity stations throughout the day as they wish. We expect to offer medicine teachings, sage and sweet grass harvesting, tomato canning, salsa, sauce and ketchup making, pow wow drum making, deer hide tanning, moccasin making, and honey extraction. Children are welcome in all of aspects of the festival.
We will share meals together three times a day. An evening fire will follow the dinner-hour for sharing stories of land and healing.
Participants will be invited to contribute to the week by helping in the kitchen, leading music in worship, sharing their experience at the different activity stations, teaching a game or physical exercise and/or telling a story around the fire.
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Registration
Adults and children of all ages are welcome. Please fill out an application form for each individual. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or caregiver.
Space at both the festival and the feast are limited and we are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people participate.
Fill out a Festival application form.
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Cost
Children 12 and under are free and youth prices apply to participants ages 13-18.
We hope you will bring friends and family. If you register with a group or family of 4 or more people, you will each get $10 off a Day Pass or $50 off a Festival Pass.
Adult Festival Pass: $320 ($370 after July 31)
Youth Festival Pass: $160 ($185 after July 31)
A Festival Pass includes all meals and snacks, Monday-Saturday.
Adult Day Pass: $80 ($90 after July 31)
Youth Day Pass: $40 ($45 after July 31)
A Day Pass includes meals and snacks.
Receive a SSSC Learning Circle credit for your participation: $100
This option is available for SSSC students who attend the full festival. Contact the Keeper of the Learning Circle at deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca if you have questions.
Adult indoor accommodations: $250
Youth indoor accommodations: $110
You will stay in a guest lodge on site, or be billeted with a friend of SSSC close by for the duration of the festival.
Adult camping accommodations: $50
Youth accommodations: $25
You can pitch your tent on the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre grounds and will have access to washroom facilities on site.
Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card. We ask for a 15% deposit once your registration is confirmed, with the remainder of the fees due when you arrive at the festival.
These fees help us prepare for an incredible week of hands-on learning, acquire the supplies and good food for enjoying together, cover travel for elders and teachers and recognize the time and contributions of the festival organizers. If these fees would prevent you from coming though – talk to us! We don’t want money to be a barrier to your participation.
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Transportation & Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. We have some funding available to assist with the transportation costs of Indigenous participants. Contact us for details.
The application form invites you to share your travel plans with us and to indicate whether you are interested in carpooling so that we can connect you with other participants traveling from the same place.
Accommodations will be provided in the guest lodges at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, or, if additional lodging is required, with a friend of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre who lives close by. Participants can also choose to bring their own tent to stay outdoors at the Centre.
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Contact
For more information, contact the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre at 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net.

147: Pathway to Treaty Relations
2018-06-23 09:00 - 14:30 | Lower Fort Garry
Treaty 1 was signed 147 years ago at Manitoba’s Lower Fort Garry
Join us at the Fort for a couple hours of treaty talk and learning in the historic village where Treaty 1 was signed.
Treaty is an invitation into sharing land for the benefit of all living things. Learn about the ways this sacred commitment can breathe new life into our relationships with one another and the world around us.

Please bring: $5, a bagged lunch, a lawn chair, and a friend!
Schedule

9:00 a.m. Tent – Resource tables and Registration open (These will be open all day for people to come and go)
10:00 a.m. Encampment Fire – Welcome & prayer; Sacred Fire Opening (Rey Anderson)
10:30 a.m. Picnic shelter/MPR – Guest Teachers (Allen Sutherland/Chris Henderson)
11:15 a.m. Picnic shelter/MPR – Guest Teachers (Allen Sutherland/Chris Henderson)
12:00 p.m. Lunch! Break out into groups for lunch and have people share where their family history (i.e. where parents/grandparents/ancestors are from and how they got here).
12:45 p.m. Picnic shelter – Panel guest stories
1:15 p.m. Picnic shelter – Conversation and Q & A with Emcee’s, guest teachers and panel guests
2:00 p.m. Encampment Fire – Rey Anderson – Sacred Fire ceremony where people can offer prayer and tobacco.
2:30 p.m. – Back to Winnipeg

Free Bus
Transportation to and from Lower Fort Garry leaves
– Salvation Army Family Centre, 51 Morrow Avenue at 8:30 am or
– IRCOM, 215 Isabel Street at 9:00am.
Please sign up at the above organizations, treatypathways@gmail.com or call 204-896-1616.

PC4 – Family Violence & Gender Issues Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-04-16 - 2018-04-20 | Manitoba
Download the Learning Circle registration form.
Resource Persons: Kelly Dvorak, Rob Thomas & Melba Laferine, RW Hoekstra, Joye Platford
Elders: Herb Russell & Bernice Saulteaux (to be confirmed)
This course seeks to provide students with trauma informed understandings, tools and resources to support families or individuals seeking healing from violent relationships or internalized oppression. Special attention will be given to the epidemic of gender-based violence against women and girls, as well as against LGBTQ persons. Students will explore these realities within the life of the church, as well as family and community systems more broadly. They will identify scriptural passages and teachings often used to promote or silently enable abusive behaviors that violate the dignity and respect of all people.

Ceremony of Celebration
2018-04-14 14:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Join us to celebrate our graduating students and honoured elders.
Graduate
Eleanor Monias

Honoured Elders
Rev. Adeline Samson-Harvey
Rev. Solomon Meekis

The service will be followed by a feast.
RSVP to 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net

H/CD5 – Community Development & Social Analysis Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-04-09 - 2018-04-13 | Manitoba
Resource Persons: Matthew LeBlanc (Executive Director of iEmergence: http://www.iemergence.org/about_us/staff.html) and Shaun Loney
Elder: Bernice Saulteaux
Indigenous communities in Canada have a long positive heritage of sustainability. This course offers the opportunity to review the varying strategies and processes of development that were present before colonization; during eras of colonial dependency; and which now continue to seek liberation, promote self-determination, and work toward building-long term community capacity. This course provides students with the opportunity to interactively engage and reflect on their own context through an appreciative inquiry approaches to community development. Gaining tools in social analysis theory, students will share with one another and think critically together about how our communities function – socially, economically, culturally, and politically
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

TH4 – Liberation Theology Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-01-22 - 2018-01-26 | Manitoba
The resource person for this week is Benjamin Lujan. Benjamin is Peruvian-Canadian and joins us as a Seneca College professor and a PhD student from the University of Toronto whose work is based in building interfaith connections to work for Indigenous Justice in Canada.
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

PM1 – Worship & Preaching Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2018-01-15 - 2018-01-19 | Manitoba
The resource person for this week is Basil Coward who joins us as a minister from a United Church congregation in Toronto, where he also works as a guidance counsellor with George Brown College.
Download the Learning Circle registration form.

Winter Ceremonies
2017-12-23 13:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Our Winter Ceremonies will take place on Saturday, December 23, 2017. A sweat will be offered at 1:00 pm, with a feast to follow. All are welcome to participate in any part of the ceremonies. Please bring a contribution of food for the feast. For more information, contact the office at 204-268- 3913. Please consider a donation towards ceremonies.
Meegwetch, Ekosi
First time joining us for a sweat? Read more on what to expect.

Feast for Friends
2017-10-21 10:00 - 19:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
We’re pleased to announced that we will be hosting this gathering of friends once again! Indigenous people and settler people are invited to join us for a day of learning, listening, sharing and feasting – all in the spirit of reconciliation.
A day to meet each other in friendship on the land. All ages welcome.
Download the registration form or fill it out online.
Register by October 6th. The space is much more limited this year so we can only accept 100 registrations.
Activities will include:

Sharing circles, teachings, games, crafts
Teaching about land as our health
Sweat lodge ceremony teaching
Feasting

This partnership-building event is co-sponsored by: All Native Circle Conference, Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, and the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario of the United Church of Canada.

Meals: Lunch and dinner and a snack will be provided. If you have special food needs, please bring what you need.
Registration Fee: A contribution to our Partnership Action Fund for a future event ~ pay what you can. (Cheques payable to “Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre – Partnership Action Fund”.)
Maximum numbers: We can accommodate 100, which includes 30 participants of Mamawe Ota Askihk. We are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Transportation: Please arrange your own car pools. Call if you are stuck for a ride.
Overnight accommodation: There is none available at SSSC but there are several motels in Beausejour.

Questions? Contact Registrar Joan Jarvis at 204-233-8911 ext 226 or jjarvis@confmnwo.mb.ca
Want to dig deeper into “land as health”? Come out for the Mamawe Ota Askihk Festival (Oct 16-21) at SSSC.

Mamawe Ota Askihk - Sharing Life Together Here on Earth
2017-10-16 - 2017-10-21 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, Ploughshares Community Farm, Canadian Mennonite University, Student Christian Movement & the Feast for Friends partners present :
a festival & a feast for friends
Gather with Indigenous community leaders and settler allies to reclaim the homebred, the homespoken, the homegrown, and the homemade.
Come root yourself in an understanding of the land as our health. Share in the spiritual teaching, laughter, and new learning. And most importantly, taste the beauty of friendships formed through nurturing one another as the earth nurtures us.
October 16 – 20: A week-long festival where we’ll winnow wild rice, tan an animal hide, smoke fish, can berry preserves, share skills and tell stories.
October 21: The “Feast for Friends” will wrap up our week with a day of games, ceremony, show & tell, and of course, sharing good food together.
This event is made possible with the support of The James Robertson Trust Fund at the United Church of Canada Foundation and The Jubilee Fund, a project of Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Central Committee Canada.

PROGRAM

REGISTRATION
COST
TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION
CONTACT

Program
We will gather every morning for worship and reflection on Biblical stories of food and land. Participants will be able to move between hands-on activity stations throughout the day as they wish. We expect to offer sprouting, hide-tanning, fish smoking, berry preserving, seed-saving, soil-building, sausage-making, wild rice processing and a few tours of small farms in the area. Children are welcome in all of aspects of the festival.
We will share meals together three times a day. An evening fire and story-telling time will follow the dinner-hour, with a special guest each night with a story of food and land from a different culture.
Participants will be invited to contribute to the week by helping in the kitchen, leading music in worship, sharing their experience at the different activity stations, teaching a game or physical exercise and/or telling a story around the fire.
See our (draft) schedule here.
Our small group of 20-30 participants will swell to 100 on the Saturday as we host the “Feast for Friends”. We’ll have a chance to demonstrate the skills we’ve been practicing all week to the guests at the Feast and take part in games, sharing circles, traditional teachings and feasting to build friendships between Settler and Indigenous People as we spend the day together on the land.
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Registration
Adults and children of all ages are welcome. Please fill out a registration form for each individual. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or caregiver.
Space at both the festival and the feast are limited and we are committed to having a balance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people participate.
Fill out a Festival registration form.
To register for the Feast for Friends ONLY, held on the Saturday of the Festival, click here.
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Cost
Children 12 and under are free and youth prices apply to participants ages 13-18.
We hope you will bring friends and family. If you register with a group or family of 4 or more people, you will each get $10 off a Day Pass or $50 off a Festival Pass.
Adult Festival Pass: $300 ($350 after Sept. 15)
Youth Festival Pass: $150 ($175 after Sept. 15)
A Festival Pass includes all meals and snacks, Monday-Saturday.
Adult Day Pass: $80 ($90 after Sept. 15)
Youth Day Pass: $40 ($45 after Sept. 15)
A Day Pass includes meals and snacks.
Receive a SSSC Learning Circle credit for your participation: $100
This option is available for SSSC students who attend the full festival. Contact the Keeper of the Learning Circle at deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca if you have questions.
Adult accommodations: $200
Youth accommodations: $100
You will stay in a guest lodge on site, or be billeted with a friend of SSSC close by.
Feast for Friends: free
Donations are welcome. If you would like to ONLY attend the Feast for Friends, click here for details and to register.

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card. We ask for a 15% deposit once your registration is confirmed, with the remainder of the fees due when you arrive at the festival.
These fees help us prepare for an incredible week of hands-on learning, acquire the supplies and good food for enjoying together, cover travel for elders and teachers and recognize the time and contributions of the festival organizers. If these fees would prevent you from coming though – talk to us! We don’t want money to be a barrier to your participation.
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Transportation & Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre. We have some funding available to assist with the transportation costs of Indigenous participants. Contact us for details.
The registration form invites you to share your travel plans with us and to indicate whether you are interested in carpooling so that we can connect you with other participants traveling from the same place.
Accommodations will be provided in the guest lodges at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, or, if additional lodging is required, with a friend of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre who lives close by.
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Contact
For more information, contact the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre at 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net.
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Annual General Meeting of the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
2017-09-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Refreshments to follow.
Please RSVP to 204-268-3913 or email sansau@mymts.net

Native Ministries Consortium Summer School
2017-07-10 - 2017-07-21 | Vancouver School of Theology
This is an opportunity for students who are often isolated from one another to gather, learn and worship together. It is also an opportunity for intensive course work for students in the Native Ministries Program. The Summer School serves people from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, with an international and largely Indigenous faculty.
Our array of courses offers a wide range of topics for a critical mind and a curious spirit. Be ready to embark on a journey of learning, healing and growth!
Native Ministries Summer School is holistic and interdisciplinary. Courses examine sacred scripture, theology and philosophy through the lens of indigenous thought. Courses achieve this by examining social data, literary-oral tradition, the artistic cultural aspects of Indigenous spirituality.
Courses – Week 1 (July 10-14)
1. Ethics in Intercultural Context
2. Ministry in the Midst of Trauma
3. The Doctrine of Discovery, “A Christian Empire,” and the Colonization of a new World

Courses Week 2 (July 17-21)
1. Pilgrimage and Indigenous Journey
2. New Testament I: Synoptic Gospels
3. Knowing the Creator Through Creation
Financial assistance is available but applications are due by May 15.

146: Pathways to Treaty Relations.
2017-06-25 13:00 - 18:00 | Manitoba
Treaty 1 was signed 146 years ago at Lower Fort Garry. What does Treaty 1 mean to you? Treaty is an invitation into sharing land for the benefit of all living things. Come learn about the ways this sacred commitment can breathe new life into our relationships with one another and the world around us.

1-4 pm @ Lower Fort Garry (5925 Highway 9 St. Andrews, MB): Workshops and Artist Tent
4-6 pm @ Little Britain United Church (5879 Provincial Trunk Hwy 9, Lockport, MB – Just a short walk away from Lower Fort Garry): Bagged picnic lunch

What to bring: $5*, a bagged lunch, a lawn chair and a friend!
*The annual payment of five dollars was a part of the treaty agreements in the 1870’s and to this day, every person is handed five bucks by the Canadian Government staff at “treaty time”. We are inviting each person who attends to bring a crisp $5 bill (if you are able) and to pay at the registration table. These funds will be used by the Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre to cover some of the costs of hosting this gathering.
Mark your calendar. More info coming soon at www.treatypathways.com.

HS3 Creation & Genesis Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-06-05 - 2017-06-09 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Download the Learning Circle Registration form.

AT3 Storytelling Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-05-29 - 2017-06-02 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada

Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry
2017-05-08 - 2017-05-12 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry (DUIM) is a 5 day interactive and engaging program with practical ideas for implementation in your own context. DUIM is for ministry leaders nurturing cultural relevance, understanding, and awareness in their communities. Registration is open to anyone who is interested, or through Canadian Churches Forum partners.

“…it was one of the best learning events I have attended in that it allowed me enough time to consider how I might apply learnings to my context. I developed ideas well enough so that I could actually articulate these ideas to colleagues on my return to work. So often workshops tend to be heavy on content without enough time for application. Your program achieved its aim, ‘Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry’”.
Registration deadline April 10, 2017

Learn more and register at http://www.ccforum.ca/DUIM

TH4 Interfaith - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-04-03 - 2017-04-07 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Download the registration form.

Resource Person: Deanna Zantingh, Shahina Siddiqui, Pundit Venkat,
Contact Info: Deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca (204-218-5812) Adrian@sandysaulteaux.ca
Elder: Bernice Saulteaux

Course Description:
This course engages students to reflect on their role as interfaith leaders. Through experiential learning and interaction with faith leaders from diverse traditions, students will increase their religious literacy by learning about religious traditions as internally and externally diverse. Student will hear about what motivates leaders within these traditions to work for social justice or a common good, and will reflect on their own religious motivations for these goals. Lastly, the course examines the public role of religion and the role of religious leaders today within diverse and complex societies; promoting the motivation to work together as faith leaders to work toward justice, healing, and peace.

Learning Objectives:

Inspire a vision of interfaith leadership and its important role within student’s current contexts of complex diverse societies.
Cultivate a knowledge base of interfaith leadership including an appreciative knowledge of traditions other than one’s own.
Nurture skillsets needed to engage in interfaith leadership and incorporate them into one’s own life, practice, and vision.
Increase one’s religious literacy, including awareness of diversity within religious traditions as well as between religious traditions.
Engage intangible learning opportunities that provide possibilities of establishing real relationships between students and SSSC and other faith traditions. relationship
Explore motivations for social justice and commitment to a common good within diverse traditions, and examine how such relationships could be a foundation to work together toward justice for Indigenous peoples in Canada and the world.

Ceremony of Celebration
2017-04-01 14:00 - 18:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Join us to celebrate our graduating students and honoured elders.
Graduates
Deb Anderson-Pratt
Fanny Spence
Honoured Elders
Myrtle Moneybird
Rev. Nelson Hart

The service will be followed by a feast.
RSVP to 204-268-3913 or sansau@mymts.net

AT5 Indigenous Cultural History - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-03-27 - 2017-03-31 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Download the registration form.

Resource People: Deanna Zantingh, Brian Rice, Bernice Saulteaux, Allen Sutherland, Peter Atkinson
Contact Info: Deanna@sandysaulteaux.ca (204-218-5812) Adrian@sandysaulteaux.ca
Elder: Bernice Saulteaux

Course Description:
This course seeks to provide an opportunity for students to learn about the cultural histories of diverse indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, with an emphasis on the cultural histories of the students present in the circle. Students will learn from traditional oral storytellers and scholars of oral tradition about cultural history pre-contact to the present. This learning circle will touch on plains history, six nations history, and the histories of Cree and Anishinaabe from Northern Manitoba and Ontario. Students will also be given the space to share their learning around a person, place, event, or custom in an oral storytelling manner.

Learning Objectives:

To gain an increased understanding of oral tradition learning. “Story teaches but does not lecture” – Stecley
To outline an overview of life in diverse and dynamic indigenous communities from prior to contact to the present day, with focus on the communities of the students who are present.
To provide an opportunity for students to learn about the diverse historical backgrounds of one another in the circle.
To learn skills in self-reflection of one’s own learning process: (the 3 L’s) – Look, Listen, Learn, while employing respect that others in the circle will learn at their own rate, and may look, listen and learn different things.
To strengthen and practice oral presentation skills

Healthy Growth and Development (Self Care) - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-01-23 - 2017-01-27 | Manitoba
This course aims to provide students with an increased understanding of the history and experience of aboriginal communities and the effects of the legacy of residential school trauma on the health of aboriginal peoples and communities. Through Aboriginal and Christian teachings as well as current theories on stages of human development, students are assisted in making healthier choices individually and with community, while studying human physical, psycho-social and sexual development, parenting skills, and healthy family relationships.
Download the registration form.

Daniel and Revelation: Dreams & Visions - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2017-01-16 - 2017-01-20 | Manitoba
Through an exegetical examination of the apocalyptic literature of Daniel and Revelation, this course examines the ways the dreams and visions found in Daniel and Revelation were understood during the time they were written as a hope for the immediate future. It draws connections to the ways apocalyptic literature can still speak to our time, but not in the manner that they operate as predictions of the long-term future. Rather, the course helps students make connections to the dreams and visions of their own time, and the Christian story as an unveiling of empire and its tools of oppression today.
Download the registration form.

Cultural History (Treaties, mission, fur trade) - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2016-10-24 - 2016-10-28 | Manitoba
Treaties are sacred covenants between sovereign nations and are the foundation for meaningful relationships that foster the well-being of all peoples. They are the basis of a familial relationship consisting of mutual and ongoing caring and sharing arrangements between family members and before Creator. Join us in our Learning Circle as we talk about treaties and cultural histories relating to missions and the fur trade, with Stan McKay and elder Andrew Wesley.

Diaconal Ministry - Learning Circle & Continuing Education Opportunity
2016-10-17 - 2016-10-21 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
How do we build and foster healthy community life? What gifts do I hold within the ministry of education, service, and pastoral care? In what ways can I use these gifts to serve my community and meet the needs of those around me? The Centre for Christian Studies will be resourcing our next Learning Circle on the topic of Diaconal Ministry. Contact the centre for more details.

Annual General Meeting of Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
2016-09-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Manitoba
Join us at Gitsegukla United Church in South Hazelton, BC OR at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre (to take part by Skype).
When: Saturday, September 24 at 2:00 p.m. BC time, 4:00 p.m. MB time
Please RSVP to sansau@mymts.net

From Apology towards Reconciliation: 30th Anniversary of the United Church’s Apology to First Nations Peoples
2016-08-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
All Native Circle Conference and the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario invite you to attend an event marking the 30th Anniversary of the United Church’s Apology to First Nations Peoples. Come and hear about the actions leading to an Apology and to once again hear the words of the Apology and response from the Indigenous Church. Through storytelling and activities, we will have an opportunity to reflect on our history. In light of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we will have an opportunity to envision new possibilities for positive relationship and reconciliation.
Please register on-line by August 5 so we know how many to expect at the Feast: form.jotform.com/61374717206253.
Event begins at 2:00 pm ending with Feast at 5:00 pm.

Gospels and the Indigenous New Testament – Learning Circle + Continuing Education Opportunity
2016-06-06 - 2016-06-10 | Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, 290 Zielke Drive, Beausejour, R0E 0C0, Canada
Learning Circle & Continuing Education flyer 2016
