UCN and the University of Manitoba’s Northern Social Work Program are hosting a talk this week about mindful decolonization.

Speaker Doctor Michael Yellow Bird, dean and professor of the Faculty of Social work at the U of M, explains what mindful decolonization entails.

“Mindful decolonization is taking contemplative practises and using them and engaging people. Using contemplative practises to begin to address some of the traumas that have resulted from colonization. Any kinds of trauma that have impacted people psychologically, emotionally, spiritually; any of those different ways and one engages in these particular kinds of practises to gain a sense of reconnection to themselves.”

The event will be held tomorrow evening from 6:30 to 8 at the UCN Lecture Hall and is free to attend.

To learn more, listen to Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.