Learning People Can Use Right Away
Each MIHKO ISKWEW workshop combines guided learning, reflection, storytelling, hands-on activities, and practical tools that participants can apply in daily life, education, work, and community roles.
We begin with your participants, goals, community context, and definition of success, then shape the workshop or program around what your people need.
Workshop Topics
Indigenous Identity and Inner Foundation
Explore Indigenous history, Natural Laws, and Medicine Wheel teachings. Participants reflect on their values, gifts, responsibilities, and sense of identity.
Emotional Awareness and Self Regulation
Learn to name emotions, recognize triggers, and understand responses shaped by lived experience. Practise approaches to calm and balance through Indigenous teachings.
Boundaries and Communication
Develop clear, respectful communication and assertive language. Explore healthy boundaries within family, peer, and community relationships.
Mindset Motivation and Change
Examine beliefs, fears, and habits that affect everyday choices. Use goal planning and accountability exercises to turn intentions into daily action.
Résumé and Employment Preparation
Identify transferable skills and describe them in a plain-language résumé. Practise interview responses and discuss workplace expectations.
Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy
Explore business ideas, target customers, pricing, credit basics, and budgeting. Connect money decisions to responsibility, reciprocity, and care for family.
What Participants Can Take Forward
A stronger understanding of identity, values, gifts, and responsibilities
Practical tools, templates, scripts, and checklists
Skills for communication, self-regulation, and thoughtful decision-making
Goals connected to purpose, responsibility, and daily action
Greater readiness for education, employment, leadership, and community roles
Clear next steps and stronger personal accountability
Why Workshops Matter
For many young people, employment is one of the first real opportunities to step into responsibility, learn how to work with others, and build habits that shape future success.
Our workshops helps youth prepare for that experience by strengthening the attitudes and skills that matter most in Indigenous-based leadership. It reinforces that leadership does not begin with a title.
It begins with character, effort, and the way a person responds to others and to opportunity.
Full Day Workshops and Multi Day Programs
Full Day Workshops
Explore a selected topic through guided learning, reflection, and practical exercises in an in-person session.
Tribal Trailblazers
A three-day youth leadership program for high-school summer students and youth groups. Participants explore identity, storytelling, teamwork, decision-making, and leadership as responsibility and service.
Holistic Wellness Series
A five-day program for youth, adult learners, and community groups. Learning explores the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual areas of the Medicine Wheel, including balance, decision-making, and daily choices.
Employment Orientation
A three-day program covering workplace readiness, payroll basics, employer and employee obligations, and professional communication. It can complement existing training before participants enter the workforce.
Custom Workshop Design
Combine topics around the interests and needs of your youth, adult, women's, or community group. We discuss the content and schedule with you before confirming the booking.
From Discovery to Follow Through
Start With Discovery
Share your audience, goals, challenges, location, timing, and measures of success.
Choose the Direction
We discuss the right workshop, program, training series, or custom design for your group.
Design the Session
We confirm the agenda, materials, cultural context, activities, and intended outcomes.
Deliver the Learning
Participants take part in guided discussion, reflection, storytelling, hands-on exercises, and practical skill building.
Plan the Follow-Through
We close with a debrief and clear next steps, with mentoring or support sessions available when requested.