May 16 “Parallel Process: Leadership and Practice as Ceremony” Webinar

Hosted by the Our Children Our Way Society, Jacqlyn Padavell of ALIGN Community Services of Alberta and Cheryl Whiskeyjack of Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society presented the “Parallel Process: Leadership & Practice as Ceremony” webinar on Friday, May 16, 2025.

The ALIGN Well-Being Toolkit is a resource that supports Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations in measuring well-being and the impact of services through an Indigenous world view. It is a principle-based, culturally rooted framework and a practice orientation that is reflective of diverse ways of being and knowing and grounded in Indigenous perspectives as parallel approaches to validating practice.

Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society’s Practice as Ceremony is a model of service delivery that sets as exemplar of the notion of parallel process, uses old ways of knowing to help facilitate, encourage and create space for our families, and people who work with our families, to have that sacred relationship that is based on love, trust and reciprocity.

The practice model uses story to help people see themselves in a parallel process using an analogy of the Sundance and all its elements to understand the role we play in the “ceremony” of our relationship with families and children that are served. Through the telling of story and an understanding of current roles, we place ourselves in the context of those sacred roles and relationships we find in ceremony.

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Our Children Our Way Society contact: Michelle Morning Star Doherty, Communications

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