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Largest KAIROS Blanket Exercise and Colombian activist come to Mount Allison University, May 3-4
May 1, 2019
(Sackville, N.B.) – Atlantic Canada’s largest KAIROS Blanket Exercise, and a celebration of arts and activism with a Colombian activist will highlight the first May weekend at Mount Allison University. These events are open to all and are part of…
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Burnaby, B.C. – KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Date & Time: March 11th, 3-6p.m. (including a light supper) Location: Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600 Delta Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. Co-facilitated by Melaney Gleeson-Lyall, Janette McIntosh, and friends For information on the KAIROS Blanket Exercise please go to link here: Kairos…
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Kairos Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training
KAIROS has put some new systems in place to ensure that the KBE program can expand to meet demand in a safe and sustainable way. As a result, there are two ways of taking the training, as a KAIROS Facilitator…
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TORONTO: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
The Kairos Blanket Exercise is an interactive educational experience to share the historical and cultural relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada. The process will take two hours. St. Clement’s welcomes all who would like to join us. We…
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MINDEN, ON: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Come experience the KAIROS Blanket Exercise at St. Paul’s Anglican, Minden! Lunch at noon, Blanket Exercise from 1pm-3pm For more information, please contact: parishofmindenkinmout@bellnet.ca 705-286-2541
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LONDON: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Experience the history of Indigenous Peoples that is rarely taught. The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an experiential teaching tool to share the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. ** Trigger Warning: The Blanket Exercise walks…
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CHARLOTTETOWN: Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise
The Native Council of PEI is working with a network of organizations across the country to host a Mass Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning opportunity to share Canada’s history from an Indigenous perspective. Partners include Abegweit First Nation, the Aboriginal…
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MONTREAL: Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training in French & English
When: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 – 11:30 – 4:30 (IN FRENCH) Sunday, April 10th, 2016 – 11:30 – 4:30 (IN ENGLISH) Where: Student’s Society of McGill University Madeleine Parent Room 3600 McTavish Street This is your chance to become a…
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OTTAWA: Mass Blanket Exercise: The Blanketed Truth Covering Turtle Island
Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G) has been inspired by the Blanket Exercise, created by KAIROS, to hold a mass scaled exercise on Parliament Hill to help educate and reconcile the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. As the closing of…
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Experiential KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) goes virtual
February 10, 2021
KAIROS launches “impactful” online KBE (Ottawa, ON) – KAIROS Canada launches its virtual KAIROS Blanket Exercise (vKBE) after six months of development, offering participants an alternative to the in-person KBE during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Hosted on the Zoom platform, the vKBE has incorporated new interactive and engaging elements that visually and emotionally demonstrate the history of…
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise Teaching & Sharing Circles: November 24
October 5, 2020
‘Building Positive Relationships between Indigenous & non-Indigenous Peoples’ Led by Indigenous Knowledge Keepers with extensive experience facilitating the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE), these interactive Zoom-based sessions aim to build positive relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through truth, sharing, and open dialogue. Based in an Indigenous-world view and using Indigenous teachings and protocols,…
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NORTH BAY: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training
We’re bringing a Blanket Exercise training to North Bay! It’s a chance to become a facilitator of this powerful teaching tool that educates on our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. If you’re not familiar with the Blanket Exercise…
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SUDBURY: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training
We’re bringing a Blanket Exercise training to Sudbury! It’s a chance to become a facilitator of this powerful teaching tool that educates on our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. If you’re not familiar with the Blanket Exercise you…
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Mass Blanket Exercise
To mark two years since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, let’s fill The Federal Plaza at the Alberta Legislature with over 500 people learning together! RISE is hosting a mass Blanket Exercise, an interactive…
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GUELPH: The Blanket Exercise
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an experiential way to hear and enterr into the history of Indigenous peoples and settlers inn Canada. It provides a starting point fordoing thework the Truth adn REconnciliationn Commission has asked of all Canadians. Bring…
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EDMONTON: Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise
To mark one year since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, let’s fill City Hall with over 500 people learning together! RISE is working with a network of organizations across the country to host…
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WINDSOR: KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Report challenges each of us to take action towards reconciliation, and that action must begin with education. The Blanket Exercise, created by Kairos Canada, leads participants through an overview of the history of Canadian colonization. It’s…
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TORONTO: KAIROS Blanket Exercise public event at York University
Interested in Reconciliation? Come and learn the true history of Canada. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Aboriginal Student Services, York University. “Education is what got us here and education is what will get us out.” Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of…
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OTTAWA: Art Showcase Mass Blanket Exercise Fundraiser
A7G and KAIROS are fundraising to bring a mass blanket exercise to Parliament Hill on June 1. The exercise will be one of the events during the closing of the Truth ad Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada PRIZES. FOOD….
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Seeds of Truth: Reflection on the KAIROS Blanket Exercise Youth Exchange with Guatemala orientation
June 6, 2017
“These bean seeds in my pocket keep me mindful of Mother Earth; they keep me grounded.” ~ Hannah “These Amaranth seeds are to share. Go ahead, eat them. Amaranth was once nearly wiped out in my area of Guatemala, but now…
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The Blanket Exercise Video
October 23, 2014
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a workshop that explores the nation-to-nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Blankets arranged on the floor represent land and participants are invited to step into the roles of First Nations, Inuit and…
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A KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) Update
April 3, 2023
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) has been a program of KAIROS for twenty-five years. In 1996, in response to the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (which became part of KAIROS in 2001) worked…
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Reflecting on the KAIROS Blanket Exercise
March 14, 2018
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is a tool developed in 1997 by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives in which participants learn about European colonization of Turtle Island (North America), the accompanying dispossession of Indigenous peoples (reflected by the steady removal…
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My experience of The Blanket Exercise
February 14, 2017
I never thought that the name ‘The blanket exercise’ gave the activity the justice it deserves, although this is how the activity was created and is commonly known. It is originally from the KAIROS, a joint venture by the United…
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ST-JOHN’S: Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise
How it works Two scripts are included: one for youth and adults, the other for children and younger teens. The exercise uses blankets to represent the lands of what is now called Canada, and the distinct cultures and nations which…
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TORONTO: KAIROS Blanket Exercise for Students of A.Y Jackson Secondary School
We are excited to be sharing the KAIROS Blanket Exercise with a large group of students from A.Y. Jackson at the end of this month.
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KAIROS takes its Blanket Exercise to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
COP27 Parallel Event – KAIROS Blanket Exercise: Centering Indigenous History and Leadership in Climate Action. The COP27 Civil Society Climate Justice Hub, Sanar Hotel, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. NOTE: Times are in Cairo, Egypt Time
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Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty: KAIROS Blanket Exercise Teaching & Sharing Circles
Traditional Helper, Mary-Anne Kechego, will talk about the Two-Row Wampum and Dish with One Spoon to illustrate what Treaties mean to Indigenous Nations because “it is important to educate our allies in what Treaties are and their responsibly to those said Treaties.” Mary-Anne is from…