2025 Workshop Descriptions Rethink Your Drink | Ancestral Beverages & Indigenous Wellness - Feed Seven Generations Star LaDeaux Gatherings Cafe Grant Manager, Minneapolis American Indian Center Kateri Tuttle Events Coordinator, Minnesota American Indian Center Making healthy food choices easy and accessible is a core foundation to Gatherings Café’s mission. Utilizing the ReThink Your Drink curriculum, we will be presenting info on the importance of reevaluating how much sugar is in common drinks we see in our community, the impacts of the high sugar consumption, and healthy alternatives that are easy and delicious. Welcome Reception Workshop
Sunday July 27
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Acacia Ballroom
Monday July 28
Workshop Session I
10:00am - Noon
Tribal Leadership - The Good, Bad & Ugly
Agave
Donya Williams (Moderator) WEWIN Board Member This workshop is geared towards anyone interested in becoming and being a tribal leader. Hear from current and former tribal leaders, about the good, bad & ugly when it comes to leading your tribe.
Internships as Mentorships: Professional Development Programs to Uplift and Inspire Presenters
Cholla
Cheyenne Sanders
Sr. Staff Attorney, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Staff Attorney, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
Anna Hohag Misha Rodarte
Partner, Legacy Commercial Career internship programs are powerful tools to empower the next generation of Native women leaders. When developed thoughtfully, internship programs can also be a space to develop lifelong mentorship connections. In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits and logistics of building an internship program at your workplace. This workshop will provide tools to build a program in any professional space. Led by a panel of professional Native women, we discuss the power of internships to empower, inspire, and grow as leaders. Consider this workshop is you looking for ways to inspire positive change in your workplace or take on a new leadership role in your office.
Honoring the Wisdom of My Ancestors - Reclaiming Our Power
Willow
Trudy Rouillard Soole Licensed Mental Health Clinician, Soole Solutions Through storytelling, presenter will share how she called her spirit back. She will share the strengths and challenges she carried from seven generations before her, separated from her mother and her twin sister raised by a boarding school survivor. She will share how historical generational trauma shaped her life with grief, loss, despair and her coping methods perpetuated such. She will share the creation story of her journey inward that led her back to her Native traditions and ceremony and how it continues to unfold. She carries with her the words of her Elders: when the women heal, the family heals, the community heals the village heals and the seven generations heal. We do this for those coming - the next generation so they can live. Trudy will share the value in recognizing the patterns and themes we operate from so that we can relinquish them. Therein lies our power.
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