How can we support healing and create wellness in urban Indigenous settings? What role do policies and the land play in seeing that healing bloom? And how can we turn to hope and keep pushing for change when faced with the reality of systemic colonial harm? In episode two, Lyana sits down with Ginger Gosnell-Meyers and frontline workers from the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia to explore these questions and more through their change-making work.

Episode 2 transcript (PDF).

Guests:  Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Melissa Vabic,  Aaron Mitchell, Ava Vargas, Lynn Power

Recommended resources from our guests on episode 2:

• Dive into Emergent Strategy, a book by Adrienne Maree Brown that offers practical advice for change makers that is grounded in lived experience as an activist with Black Lives Matters and Indigenous environmentalism.
• Check out Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations, a book by Richard Wagamese that offers personal reflections and teachings from Elders on how to gain strength, mourn effectively, find peace, and keep going with the important work in front of you.

Our host, Dr. Lyana Patrick, would love to hear from you, our listeners. Keep the conversation going via email at [email protected].