Indigenous Community for Leadership & Development

01/16/2026

01/14/2026

ONLY 5 SPOTS LEFT — STARTING FEBRUARY 9, 2026

We are excited to share that there are just 5 spaces remaining in our Craft Workers Program & Apprenticeship – Cohort 4, launching February 9 in Cloverdale. Once these spots are filled, the cohort will close and move forward.
This is a powerful opportunity for Indigenous learners who are ready for their next step into skilled trades, union employment, and long-term career pathways.

This program includes:
✔️ Safety & construction training
✔️ Hands-on job-site experience
✔️ Trauma-informed, culturally grounded supports
✔️ Full-time union employment for successful learners
✔️ Laptop, PPE, and all required tools provided
If you know someone who has been asking about training, work, or apprenticeship opportunities, this could be their moment.

Register now by scanning the QR code on the flyer

Or message me directly for more information

Please share this with your Nation, your family, and your community — when we pass opportunity forward, we strengthen the whole circle.

12/04/2025

Cyril in action -

Reflecting on this powerful conversation, we’re reminded that Indigenous leadership continues to light the path toward reconciliation and cultural understanding.
The dialogue spoke to the strength of Indigenous tourism and the resilience of our communities.

12/01/2025

The most effective teams are diverse, respectful, and grounded in cultural understanding.

ICLD’s training helps organizations recognize and remove the barriers that often leave Indigenous voices out of decision-making, hiring, and leadership.

Cultural safety is more than a checkbox, it’s a commitment to doing better, together.

🌱 Build a workplace where everyone is seen.
https://icldgroup.com

11/27/2025

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month.

At ICLD, we honour wellness in a way that connects mind, body, spirit, and land.

Our ancestors moved with the seasons; walking the shoreline, paddling the waters, gathering medicines, and travelling the trails. Movement wasn’t exercise…
It was life, culture, and connection.

This month, we invite our relatives and communities to return to that spirit:
Walk on the land.
Spend time near the water.
Breathe in the medicines around you.

Even a few minutes outside can support blood sugar balance, mental wellness, and emotional grounding.

Wellness is not about perfection, it’s about reconnecting with the places that remind us who we are.

Movement is medicine. Land is healing.
And we walk forward with the strength of those who walked before us.

10/28/2025

Shared in the words of Cyril Morris, ICLD's Community Relationship Builder:

The Saanich News cover features my mother, sellemah (Joan Morris), speaking about her lived experiences at Kuper Island Residential School and the Nanaimo Indian Hospital.

She shared the atrocities she endured; beatings, starvation, assault, medical experiments, and sexual violence and what she witnessed happening to loved ones.
Many returned home deeply scarred. Others never came home at all.

The interviews took place on Lekwungen Territory, at Cattle Point, in front of the stq'eye sculpture overlooking the Songhees Islands of tl’ces, where she was born and raised. Inside the paper is a QR code linking to a video of her speaking.

In that video, she says, “millions of children did not make it home.” Some questioned or denied her words, but my mother was speaking to all colonial traumas that have impacted First Nations peoples across Turtle Island — from Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals, to the Sixties Scoop and MMIWG.

There is also a painful connection between Kuper Island and Nanaimo Indian Hospital. Many children sent from Kuper were so badly injured that they were hospitalized — and then experimented on. My mother called those hospital stays a “reprieve,” because it meant she could see her own mother, who was a patient there for 18 years.

These stories are not easy to tell — but they are the truth. Sharing them helps ensure that what happened is never forgotten.🧡

10/23/2025

What Is Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP)?

Trauma-Informed Practice isn’t about being a therapist.
It’s about understanding that trauma is real, widespread, and lasting; especially within Indigenous communities who continue to experience the intergenerational impacts of colonization, residential schools, land dispossession, and systemic racism.

Being trauma-informed means:
- Prioritizing emotional safety, not just physical safety.
- Recognizing and avoiding re-traumatization.
- Practicing consent, transparency, and collaboration.
- Understanding that “resistance” or “disengagement” may be coping mechanisms, not defiance.

Responding with compassion over control, curiosity over judgment.
Trauma-Informed Practice begins with awareness — and continues through empathy, accountability, and community healing.

10/20/2025

Rebuilding, Reclaiming, Resiliency

At the South Island Pow Wow, ICLD was proud to share space with 93 other vendors and more than 21,000 attendees — coming together to celebrate Indigenous culture, healing, and community strength.

94 vendors, 94 Calls to Action! 🧡

Through Indigenous-led wellness and reconciliation programs, we continue to support healing journeys across BC.

ICLD is grounded in culture, guided by lived experience, and inspired by community resilience.

Thank you to the Songhees Nation and the South Island Pow Wow Committee for creating this space of unity, truth, and celebration.

10/06/2025

At ICLD, we understand that learning and leadership are not just intellectual, they are emotional, cultural, and deeply personal.

Our culturally informed programs create space where Indigenous learners feel seen, respected, and supported in their full experience. This means recognizing the weight some people carry and offering tools that build confidence, trust, and collective strength.

We focus on restoring what was always there: dignity, voice, and belonging.

🌿 Walk with us and explore culturally grounded leadership training:
https://icldgroup.com

09/26/2025

“We now have the tools to work together to build a foundation of awareness and understanding.” This is why we do what we do.

How does your team handle conflict?

Explore our Conflict Resolution training!
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09/23/2025

True leadership doesn’t just move systems, it restores relationships.
ICLD’s culturally informed approach supports leaders in building safe, respectful environments where everyone can thrive.

Our programs create space for reflection, connection, and responsibility all rooted in Indigenous values and ways of knowing.

This is where leadership becomes a form of care, not just for others, but for self and community.
✨ Explore leadership that empowers from within:
https://icldgroup.com/programs

09/16/2025

What if leadership could be a space for healing and connection? 🪶

At the Indigenous Community for Leadership and Development (ICLD), we believe that leadership rooted in empathy, cultural safety, and trauma awareness can create real, lasting change within individuals, organizations, and entire communities.

Our strength based leadership programs are designed to help learners shift from authority to authenticity, and from pressure to presence. Through culturally grounded training, we support Indigenous leaders and teams in creating emotionally safe spaces where trust, healing, and resilience can thrive.

This isn’t just professional development. It is a movement toward leadership that honors lived experience and strengthens community well-being.

❤️‍🩹 A better way is possible, and it starts with awareness.
✨ Explore our programs today. Link in bio.