Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples®

Through collaborative consultation with tourism partners and in an effort to support industry with evolving community-based needs, Destination BC is pleased to offer the Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples Workshop^® in partnership with Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.

Customized for Regional and Community Destination Management or Marketing Organizations, Experience sector associations. Visitor Centres, and tourism businesses, this live virtual training is designed to build awareness of indigenous peoples and support your organization with building relationships with indigenous communities and businesses in British Columbia.

This training is not recorded to provide a safe environment in which to ask questions and get the help you need to build:

Indigenous Awareness

• • Understanding how history impacts Indigenous Peoples
  • Understanding how current Indigenous issues impact Indigenous communities
  • Understanding Indigenous self-government
  • Understanding the constitutional, political and legal context of Indigenous issues
  • Understanding how Indigenous and western world views impact decision-making

   

Indigenous Relations

• • Understanding how to cultivate Indigenous relationships
  • Understanding business reasons for working with Indigenous Peoples
  • How to begin to consult with Indigenous Peoples
  • Fear of saying or doing the wrong thing
  • How to manage risk when cultivating Indigenous relationships

This full day (7 hour) training includes 2 x 15 minute and 1 hour lunch breaks.

Delivered by: Flavio Caron or Rob Everson, Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.

Capacity: 30 Participants/session

Please note: This workshop is only open to BC-based Regional and Community DMOs, Experience Sector Associations, Visitor Centres, and tourism businesses. Due to a limited capacity, a maximum of two individuals per organization who have not already taken the training, will be accepted. Any additional staff can email us to be placed on a waitlist.

Winter 2025 Sessions:

Jan. 14 | Register Now!  Sold-Out

Jan. 16 | Register Now!  Sold-Out

Check back in mid-January.

Please feel free to contact [email protected], with any questions.

To be notified when new sessions are announced, please complete the below form.

NOTE: Message from: Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. (course owner and provider).

Please note: The intended audience for our training are non-Indigenous learners. In particular for our foundational and copyright protected course, Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples®, those are learners with little to no knowledge of or experience working with Indigenous Peoples. Our training provides generalized information about Indigenous Peoples, whether First Nations, Inuit, or Metis, across Canada. Indigenous Peoples with a connection to their community very likely have this information in addition to lived experience of their own community’s history which puts them in need of different information than we provide in our training. The needs of non-Indigenous and Indigenous learners during this training are vastly different and are best not addressed in the same way and not at the same time to ensure a safe learning environment for both learners. Our trainers strive to provide a safe learning environment for all learners but this cannot be guaranteed, especially for Indigenous learners. Given the current climate of Residential Schools, Indigenous learners could be triggered by many topics and discussions in the training. The inclusion of Indigenous learners in the proposed training is at your discretion with the understanding that the materials are intended for non-Indigenous learners.