Indigenous Youth & Family Language, Healing Garden & Stewardship Program
Date and time is TBD
|Barrière
Apply now. Are you an Indigenous youth between 12 and 25 or family with children between that age interested in learning more Secwepemcstin, learning how to and participating in planting, cultivating and food forests, fishing, sweatlodge, healing and talking circles?
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
Barrière, Barrière, BC, Canada
About the event
The Qweqwetsin Family & Healing Lodge Society (Q Healing) is honoured to lead Healing the Next Generation — a land-based, trauma-informed youth program rooted in Indigenous ceremony, cultural identity, and community care. This initiative was developed in response to urgent needs faced by Indigenous youth across Secwepemc territory and beyond: intergenerational trauma, disconnection from land and language, lack of safe cultural spaces, and increasing mental health challenges in the wake of Residential School legacies, climate crises, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This program offers a powerful return to land, ceremony, and ancestral teachings. Youth aged 12 to 29 will participate in seasonal sessions, guided by Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Cultural Mentors, to restore connection — to the land, to spirit, to language, and to themselves.
Core Components:
🌀 Sweat Lodge Ceremonies: Held every 4 weeks throughout the program on Simpcw and Sunnybrae lands, sweat lodges are the ceremonial heartbeat of this healing journey. Full…
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