WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Four Nations Workshop Offerings
For Adults:
Essential Botany: people speak of talking to plants but here you will learn:
- how to listen to plants and obtain specific information about their properties, medicines and symbolic meanings
- meditation techniques that take you to the Universal Quantum Field where All Life is One and we can communicate clearly with all of Creation
- to deepen your connection to Nature, including the plants in your garden
- ancient teachings about the Natural or Sacred Laws that Mother Earth has given all colours of humanity to abide by in maintaining respectful and sustainable harvesting and propagation practices.
Testimonial: “This course changed my life! I feel different. My sense of the magic and the mystery of my life have expanded. I feel like I just spent a day in Hogwart’s University. Do yourself a favour and take it. Your sense of hope and faith in the power of Nature to heal will be reinstated. It’s amazing and very fun.” -B-Passmore, BC.
Format: in person
Length of time: one day
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The Sacred Medicine Wheel: Learn this essential foundational Earth based teaching embracing the holistic perspective it brings and the practical ways you can apply these teachings as a template of organization into your daily life. The Medicine Wheel has many applications as we use it as a framework for:
- organizing plans, setting goals, creating schedules for goal setting in our personal and professional lives, creating workshops and keynote speaker presentations
- ensuring that rituals and ceremonies are balanced in all their sacred elements
- creating approaches to holistic healing treatments that cover all the bases, ensuring superior quality care for your clients and patients.
- interpreting the meanings of dreams, visions, and omens, symbols and metaphors in our lives
- interpreting the elements inside scrying and other divination techniques
Testimonial: “I teach Medicine Wheel training in my job as an Indigenous Educational Support Worker and I have never seen this material delivered with such humility, humour and so profoundly. Even if you think you know the Medicine Wheel, take the workshop anyways is what I say. And it’s so fun!” -B-Trail, BC.
Format: online or in person
Duration: one day
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Interpreting Symbols and Metaphors in Our Daily Life: The Quantum Universe and All Life is constantly communicating with us and helping us. However, most humans in the modern world have forgotten this sophisticated, breath-taking language of Nature, Dreams, Visions, Sacred Art and the Unconscious Mind. Join us in relearning the language of the Universe. This is also one of the corner stones to learning various divination and scrying techniques.
This is an awesome course for:
- artists
- psychologists
- psychotherapists
- counselors
- authors
- writers
- doctors
- musicians
- dancers
- energetic healing practitioners and shamans
This offering is focussed on enhancing your knowledge and skill set for working in the Universal Quantum Field which is where healing starts. It is from here that the loom of life creates health as we weave our offerings to our clients and patients.
Testimonial: OMG! I feel reinspired about my art, my life, the mystery of the universe, people, everything! Nature and the Universe are constantly communicating with us, we just have to learn their language! This really has enhanced my service as an Art Therapist. Brilliantly delivered! Kat takes complex concepts and breaks them down simple stupid. Amazing! This workshop is a must have in both your resume and personal life.” -L-Slocan Valley , B.C.
Format: online
Duration: one day
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Dream Interpretation: throw away the dream interpretation dictionaries and get ready for the real deal as we explore the profound world of dream interpretation through an ancient universal indigenous lens. Dreams are one of the ways our spirit, our unconscious mind, our Ancestors and the Universe can communicate with us. Even if you don’t remember your dreams, this knowledge base is great to acquire to help others in interpreting their dreams.
Prerequisites for this course:
- the Medicine Wheel as a template of organization in dream Interpretation
- interpreting Symbols and Metaphors in our Daily Life
Testimonial: this course is wild! Kat brought us thru 8 different types of dreams and very profound, specific meanings. Nothing generic going on here! We even had one guy who took the Dream workshop who typically does not dream, and he started dreaming every night for a week before the workshop started! And he is still dreaming years later! This course is intriguing and everyone can do it and Kat is also very funny. It’s a great activity to share with your partner on date night. Enjoy!”- S-Fruitvale, BC
Format: online
Duration: one day
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Sacred Divination Tools: join us as we take our knowledge of symbol and metaphor interpretation including placing it on a Medicine Wheel template and further integrate that knowledge into ancient divination techniques such as scrying with water, fire, earth and air.
Prerequisites:
- The Sacred Medicine Wheel
- Interpreting Symbols and Metaphors in Our Daily Life
Testimonial: “This workshop blew me out of the water! The readings were so accurate for everyone in the entire group of participants! I thought only gifted people could do this kind of thing. Kat teaches it thru a system that works for everybody. She brings divination to the Muggles!” S-Nelson, B.C
Format: in person
Duration: one day
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Maps of Destiny: here you create your own divination tool for divining your present and future. Using this map is a great way to learn what our unconscious mind is doing and what it needs to tell us. We can keep track of the world around us and what it is trying to communicate with us, including the hidden motives of those around us. This is a great cross reference tool for decision making as it can confirm those niggly feelings our instincts and intuition are conveying to us.
Testimonial: “This is sooooo cooool! This is like Tarot card reading but much easier to do. It’s a great tool just for daily checks in with ourselves around our decisions-large and small. I’m not an artist but I love, love, love the map that I created! Thanks Kat!” M- Castlegar, BC.
Format: online or in person
Duration: one day
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Mourning Altars: We all encounter experiences in life where words simply cannot express the BIG emotions we are feeling. Words are not big enough. Join us and learn to let Mother Earth hold your feelings as you express your grief, your joy in life and death experiences and transitions. You will learn how to create living altars made from natural materials in a nature-based setting. This is a very cathartic mechanism in which to integrate the big changes and transitions that life is offering us right now. This practise moves our Big feelings out of our bodies so we can return to a state of peace and joy. You do not need to be an artist to participate in this wonderful course. This course is also available in the winter using suitable indoor facilities.
Testimonial: “This Mourning Altar healing process was held so tenderly and with great sensitivity by Kat. She is strong and soft, informative, wise and also brings a dose of humour to some very unfunny topics and issues just at the perfect times when I really needed to laugh. I learned once again the power of Mother Earth to heal us and her capacity to hold my feelings as I lay down my burdens of grief.” M- Calgary, Alberta
Format: in person- for individuals and groups
Duration: 4 hrs for individuals and 6 hrs for groups with a cofacilitator
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Individuals:
Group of seven participants:
Indigenous Prophecies for These Times: Ancient instructions were left to us on how to successfully navigate these times of great change, purification and turmoil. We delve into these instructions to bring perspective and hope. They also offer a road map for how to keep our families and communities safe in these uncertain times.
Testimonial: “Who knew that Indigenous prophets were so accurate? They foretold of the first atomic bomb, airplanes, planes, cars, the destruction of the Two Towers on 911, alcohol, the covid 19 epidemic and the social problems that came with it and many more. And they left behind instructions for what we can do to prepare for these times of Earth’s Great Purification. I found solace in this knowledge. It’s like being given a road map for where to go next and what to do.”
–Sylvia-Kootenays
Format: online
Duration: 3 hrs
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The Sacred Elements of Ceremony: This workshop is designed for people who want to feel confident engaging in ceremony and for facilitators who wish to augment their foundational understanding of ceremonies and the Quantum Mechanics that make them effective in healing people. This offering will also provide you with the knowledge base necessary to recapture your own home-made rituals in a holistic, responsible fashion. Great for people who don’t have access to ancient ceremonies but are working to decolonize and create their own spiritual practises.
Testimonial: “I’ve been facilitating ceremonies for decades, but this is the first time I feel that I really understand the ceremonial elements, as well as the interplay between them. I feel a renewed confidence in my ability to teach it more precisely now. Thank you for your generosity, Kat in passing on this knowledge. It’s very hard to come by these days.” D-Texas
Format: online or in person
Duration:4 hrs
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For Youth:
Carving for Youth: foundational carving skills and life skills taught through an Indigenous lens, filled with story, laughter and connection. Like many of us, it is easier for youth to talk about what is on their minds and hearts, when their hands and eyes are captivated by an enjoyable task. Participants will be creating soapstone necklaces. The design is created first on paper, then carved into a bar of soap and then carved into soapstone and finished.
Communication is key to helping youth stay safe from self harm tendencies, addictions and violence. Individual creative expression brings confidence, joy and a sense of purpose and pride. In this program, carving provides a mechanism through which to connect with teens, building a container of hope, inspiration and life enhancing adult/peer relationships.
Testimonial: “My favourite part of this carving class is that I didn’t feel like dying today.” D- 17 yr old Indigenous youth-BC.
Format: in person
Duration:3 classes, 3 hrs each
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From Cradle to Crypt: an Exploration of the Ancient Mysteries of Woman: Ever feel ripped off for not having grown up with the ancient mysteries associated with being a woman? Are you grieving a strong sense of identity and personal power as a woman? Have you ever wondered about the energetic and spiritual gifts of your moontime? Do you long to access the gifts that Creator has given you to help your family and community? Come join us for this unique training series that will empower you but also give you teachings that you can pass on to your daughters, granddaughters and other relatives.
In this training you will learn:
- The real history of earth
- The history of the patriarchy
- Energetic anatomy of your body
- Energetic anatomy of your moontime
- Cleansing rituals for you and your daughter
- Herbs to help maintain a healthy body and to help with moontime ailments
- Dreaming and visioning rituals during moontime
- Menopause- nutrition, herbs, hormonal replacement, pelvic floor health
- Sweat lodge, herbal baths, river washes, smudges and other rites of purifications
- Exploration of what personal power is and how to carry it responsibly and kindly
- Our roles and responsibilities as leaders in our families and communities
- Death doula basics-washing the body with herbs, singing the spirit away, mourning ceremonies and rituals
- What to do when there is a death in the community-how to help
- Reclaiming and redefining our communities-honing our community building skills
This training series is open to women and their daughters and granddaughters to participate. Children must be able to concentrate and conduct themselves appropriately for long periods of time, maintaining respectful behaviour toward others, including their mothers while in class. Suggested minimum age: nine yrs
*We hold this space for women- in the many form and shapes that takes. With regard to the teachings and specific learnings, this specific course is for those who have a womb, and have or do experience (or will experience when they come of age) monthly moontime. If you are looking for an adapted class, please reach out! We are respectful and welcoming of all identities and encourage everyone to seek sacred knowledge.
Testimonial: “Who knew? I’ve always wanted to learn about these ancient ways of woman but up until now, I had never quite found a fit for myself. This material and experiences are introduced so beautifully with such love, humour and strength. I feel a strong sense of legacy from my ancestors that takes me into the world with renewed confidence, gratitude and large wonderment and awe. This is a life changer not only for myself and my daughter, but also my mother and every woman I encounter from now on. I am proud to now be walking as an empowered woman with a softness and strength that is not modelled after men. Amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Format: in person
Duration: 4 classes that are 6 hrs long
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