Please join Other+Wise and their promotional partners, ELCA Coaching, New Story Festival, and Briarwood Leadership Center, for three Indigenous-centered Zoom workshops with founder and director, Vance Blackfox.

For more details, view this PDF flyer or read more on this post. Click to register for these 7pm CDT workshops: Indian 101, 8/19/2020; Movements in Indian Country, 9/26/2020; Indigenous Thought and Theology, 10/14/2020.

These workshops are provided at no cost. Attendees are invited to offer a financial gift in appreciation for our time of learning and listening together: http://otherwise.red/donate/.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Vance at vance@otherwise.red.

For those connected through ELCA Coaching, for better context, we kindly ask that you watch the recording from July 8, Truth and Healing for the Sake of Indigenous People, prior to these workshops.

Indian 101

Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CDT (register)

The general population knows very little about the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island – even the most basic topics are often grand mysteries. This is, of course, by design, as the colonial project prioritized the complete erasure of Native peoples. Indian 101 will be a time to learn some of these basics and to cultivate a foundation for standing in solidarity with Indian people across the United States.

Movements in Indian Country

Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CDT (register)

There are countless challenges facing Indian Country today, and Native-serving organizations are constantly working to keep up with the frontline Indigenous leaders, activists, and movements that are responding to these challenges. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), these movements are usually unknown to the general population because non-Indigenous people either haven’t had to care or don’t know they should care. And those who do care often don’t know where to begin learning and engaging. Movements in Indian Country will provide you with a starting point for supporting a range of justice efforts in Indigenous communities.

Indigenous Thought and Theology

Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CDT (register)

Indian people have unique and beautiful ways of understanding and interacting with the world. Indigenous wisdom – as it relates to being in relationship with other created beings, Mother Earth, and Creator – should be centered in the work to provide better care for our home and relatives. Indigenous Thought and Theology will be a helpful introduction to this wisdom and ways of understanding.