Facilitating Workplace Restoration
May 4 @ 2:00 pm - May 9 @ 4:00 pm
Traditional Indigenous Circle Processes adapted to heal workplaces. Created by Elder Vicky Whalen and by Paula Drouin Vicky and Paula worked together for a couple of decades. The passing of Elder Vicky in 2020 was such a loss, and we feel honoured to have her ideas live on in this course. During this workshop, an Elder or Cultural Knowledge Keeper will provide participants with traditional indigenous circle teachings used for sharing, healing and addressing conflict. Paula will then provide practical ways to adapt traditional circle processes to restore modern post-conflict workplaces. Employees are frequently harmed not only by the people they are complaining about, but also by formal complaint processes such as grievances, investigations, arbitrations, hearings, and appeals. Once the formal processes have concluded, these same complainants and respondents frequently must continue to work together. The inspiration for this workshop came from being asked, “How can we put this team back together?” Paula’s experience designing and delivering an Indigenous Peacemaking Certificate Program for Native Counselling Services of Alberta has provided her with a culturally rich exposure to traditional healing processes and the caring presence of many Elders. With deep respect for the work of these Elders and their application of sharing and healing circles to help families, groups, and communities overcome harm, Paula reached out to Vicky to co-create this unique opportunity that we are sure will challenge your thinking and inspire you to ‘think outside the box’ when addressing team tensions. Paula has spent several years finding respected people from Indigenous Nations to co-present this material. Paula will be working with a few different Elders and others from the community who are familiar with the work to co-facilitate. Names will be provided closer to the delivery date. Who is the course designed for: Anyone with the responsibility to work in workplaces, helping teams pull back together post-conflict. This training will also help employees with a responsibility to help teams ‘clear the air’ or resolve issues as a group. Having previous training in conflict resolution and experience facilitating conflict resolution conversations will provide some confidence in preparing people for and facilitating workplace restoration circles. Dates and Times: Location: Online Instructors: Paula Drouin – Paula draws on her past experiences working in a maximum security prison and in Edmonton’s inner city to create links between theory and practice. She has designed and delivered training in restorative justice, workplace assessments, investigations, mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and has provided mediation and other dispute resolution services in workplaces for over twenty years. The idea of preventing someone from registering for a course makes us all crazy, so we won’t do that. However, we need to order printing a week before the course and make final decisions about the number of coaches to bring in, and confirm the size of the classroom being rented. Therefore, we hope you will register as soon as possible (knowing we’ll be kind and easy to deal with if you have to cancel) and in exchange we will keep registration open until the day before the course. We will shut off online course registration a week before, however you can just give us a call at 780-460-7599 or send an email to admin@adrlearninginstitute.ca to register. We will confirm your registration and make sure we have all the materials you will need when you arrive on the course date. We know life happens. Sometimes schedules change or the universe interferes with your plans. Please provide us with as much notice as possible so we can provide you with a full refund and hopefully fill your spot. If the universe doesn’t let you know until five or less days before the course, then we will give you a full credit towards another course which you, or someone you choose to transfer it to, can use within a year. If your financial situation is such that you just really need the money to be put back into your account, then give us a call and we will provide a refund less any admin costs incurred through Pay Pal or Invoicing. If you have already taken a course with us, please email coursesupport@adrlearninginstitute.ca for any further course registrations at this time. If you are a new student or a representative of a new student, please fill out the form below entering the information of the person taking the course.
Monday, May 4, 2026 | 2:00 – 5:00pm MT
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 2:00 – 5:00pm MT
Saturday, May 9, 2026 | 9:00am – 4:00pm MT
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