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TORONTO: Kairos Blanket Exercise and Facilitator Training
Come learn the Indigenous rights history we are rarely taught. Take part in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) in the morning and then stay for lunch and the afternoon session to learn how to facilitate the KBE yourself. Learn more…
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VANCOUVER: The KAIROS Blanket Exercise
In acknowledgement of National Aboriginal Day on June 21, UCV’s Social Justice Committee and the CUC’s Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Reflection Guide Task Force has teamed up with KAIROS Canada, an ecumenical organization, to offer an important teaching about the…
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CHEVERY: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
The Netagamiou CLC, with the support of Reverend Deb Kigar and Mr. Baudouin Lalo from Unamen Shipu, have invited KAIROS to bring the Blanket Exercise to the Lower North Shore of Quebec. This is being co-organized by the Community Learning…
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WATER VALLEY, AB: Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training
MCC Alberta is hosting a Blanket Exercise (BE) Facilitator Training event at Camp Valaqua. The BE is an interactive workshop teaching the (often) unknown history of Indigenous rights in Canada. Alfredo Barahona from KAIROS will lead this training on April…
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TORONTO: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history we’re rarely taught. See http://www.kairosblanketexercise.org for more information. This event is sponsored by the Aboriginal Rights Solidarity Group from Trinity St. Paul’s, Bloor St. and…
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Changing the world one KAIROS Blanket Exercise story at a time
March 30, 2020
Words cannot express the gratitude for every time we are called upon to offer the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE). It is an honour to meet with participants who, for the most part, are on a journey of learning. We have been asked to go where people have little or no…
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The KAIROS Blanket Exercise in Ireland
December 3, 2018
A KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) team travelled to Ireland in November to facilitate the exercise for Trócaire, a development and emergency relief agency that works “to support the most vulnerable people in the developing world, while also raising awareness of…
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Blanket exercise coordinator educates non-Indigenous people about shared history of Canada
June 22, 2018
Susan Beaudin knows about the power of a blanket. The educator from Cowessess First Nation is a residential school survivor. She is also the Kairos Blanket Exercise Coordinator for Saskatchewan. In her role, she travels to different communities, institutions, and…
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The KAIROS Blanket Exercise “equips us for those reconciling conversations & relationships”
June 24, 2016
Watch this short video, a testimonial to the power of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise The KAIROS Blanket Exercise “doesn’t bring about reconciliation on its own, but it does equip us for those reconciling conversations & relationships in a much healthier…
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Global News Edmonton coverage of Blanket Exercise at a pre-TRC event on March 26 in Edmonton
April 9, 2014
KAIROS staff led participants in the Blanket Exercise at a pre-TRC event on March 26 in Edmonton. Global News Edmonton covered the story in its News Hour Final. KAIROS is grateful to Global News Edmonton for granting KAIROS permission to…
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The Impacts of Residential Schools in Canada: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Teaching & Sharing Circles
Oshkaabewis kwe/woman helper, Tracey Whiteye, presents The Impact of Residential Schools – the story of a second-generation residential school Survivor, an Indigenous woman who fought to regain her culture and her language through the healing of Indigenous ways of knowing. Tracey is Makwa Dodem, Bear…
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Kairos Blanket Exercise
Co-hosted by St. James’ Anglican Church and Sydenham Street United Church. Experential understanding of Indigenous and non-Indigenous shared history. Please bring blanket or sheet; flat-soled shoes recommended.
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The KAIROS Blanket Exercise goes to Alaska
June 21, 2018
Interest in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is growing beyond Canada’s borders In late May I traveled to Anchorage, Alaska with Lillian Underwood, an Indigenous KBE trainer and facilitator based in B.C., and my colleague, KBE Coordinator Sara Anderson, for…
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New video: Kitchi Blanket Exercise
May 24, 2017
Please share this video with your network. Let’s all ‘show up’ on June 2, to participate in the largest Mass Blanket Exercise ever! #reconciliACTION150
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise Project with the Mary Ward Centre and Toronto Catholic District School Board
January 28, 2017
KAIROS, the Mary Ward Centre and the Toronto Catholic District School Board launched a collaborative project in October 2016 to bring the KAIROS Blanket Exercise to elementary and secondary school students on a weekly basis. Fifteen schools and hundreds of…
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise, Gladue Summit, Thunder Bay
January 13, 2017
“A very generous and talented videographer created this short video of the Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise I co-facilitated in Thunder Bay on November 29, 2016 for 100+ participants at the Gladue Summit, which was organized by the Ministry of the…
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Announcing… a KAIROS Blanket Exercise Youth Exchange with Guatemala
October 19, 2016
KAIROS will take 2 First Nations, 2 Métis, 2 Inuk and 2 settler youth (18-30 years old) to Guatemala in May 2017 and facilitate 2 Guatemalan youth coming to Canada in June 2017 to find common ground across borders through…
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Reflection on the Spanish version of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, at the World Social Forum
August 12, 2016
“Participants (of the Spanish version of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise at the World Social Forum in Montreal) very quickly make connections between the history of colonization in Canada and the history of colonization in Latin America.” Alfredo Barahona, Indigenous, Migrant &…
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Listen to podcast: Thunder Bay students take part in KAIROS’ Blanket Exercise
January 6, 2016
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Social Injustice in the Court System: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Teaching & Sharing Circles
Tina Stevens is an Algonquin-Ojibwe woman from Kitigan Zibi, Kettle and Stoney Point who has lived in London (Ontario) her whole life. She has three strong sons and attributes her energy to having been raised by a strong mother – a great Elder in her own…
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Barrie: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training
Leaders : Dawn Maracle and Mim Harder PLEASE REGISTER with Vanessa Kennedy: v.kennedy@bnfc.ca or Elaine Gareau: elaine.gareau@rogers.com Lunch: Potluck lunch, bring a dish of your choice! Co-sponsored by the Barrie Native Friendship Centre and Simcoe County Kairos Dawn Maracle is Mohawk…
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Toronto:Educación Para la Reconciliación-KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Educación Para la Reconciliación – La Historia Oculta de los Pueblos Indígenas en Canada Jueves 30 de Noviembre, 2017, 6:00-9:00 PM Casa de los Amigos – Friends House 60 Lowther Ave. (Esquina de Bedford y Lowther) St. George Station, (Salida…
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UNIONVILLE, ON: Mass Kairos Blanket Exercise
The Giving Tree Unionville and UPC Community Church join KAIROS in bringing you this opportunity to participate – to lean and better understand the Indigenous rights history we’re rarely taught. This large, public event will be held outdoors at the…
