WORKSHOPS
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Sky Spirit Studio offers transformative workshops based in Coast Salish teachings. We teach through a thoughtful and meaningful “Two-Eyed Seeing” approach which combines Western and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to build greater understanding between communities.We root our workshops in Indigenous design values by ensuring tactile elements ground the teachings in the land. Our workshops are great entry points into understanding decolonization discourse and consultation practices.
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*Some of our workshops are mandatory before beginning a working relationship with new clients, please contact us for more information.
Decolonizing Design
Decolonizing Design Workshop Series
Decolonizing Design is a series of three presentation style workshops covering original concepts by Sierra Tasi Baker developed in their Masters degree covering the history of colonial thought and its influence on architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, design, and community engagement.
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*Must take our Positionality in Design Series before any of our other workshops
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Positionality
in Design Workshop Series
Our foundational workshop series meant to support personal understandings and relationships to colonialism in design
Oral History
Workshop Series
Understanding Oral History and Indigenous Memory Keeping techniques through a land-based and experiential approach.
Line in the Sand Workshop
Experience MST traditional law and protocols through a study of the first meetings between Captain George Vancouver and Host Nation peoples in 1792
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Land Based experiential workshop
Berry Gatherer Workshop
Raising awareness about Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQIAA+ and ways to process intergenerational trauma
through movement and storytelling.
+ 1hr Presentation on MMIW + Intergenerational Trauma
+ 5 minute Dance Performance (Legend of Bear & Grizzly)
+ Berry Gathering activity with felted berries (collecting)
+ 1hr movement workshop - processing trauma through dance + Pause + reflection exercise