Indigenous Cultural Safety and Decolonizing Your Professional Practice Two Workshops in One Day for HSA Members

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DATES:              November 4, 2025
TIME:                 9:00 am to 4:30 pm PST, one hour for lunch
LOCATION:     Virtual – via Zoom 

Indigenous Cultural Safety – This three-hour workshop will introduce HSA members to the practice of Indigenous Cultural Safety. It will build knowledge and practical tools to better serve, work alongside and build partnerships with Indigenous peoples and communities. This foundational workshop includes:

  • Listing key terminology for cultural safety
  • Discussing the origins of anti-Indigenous racism in colonial Canada
  • Assembling pragmatic strategies for embedding Indigenous Cultural Safety into organization

Decolonizing Your Professional Practice – This three-hour workshop brings together the foundational knowledge of Indigenous Cultural Safety with forward-thinking strategies of transformative leadership. This workshop equips participants with actionable tools to decolonize their professional presence—strengthening leadership, fostering equitable team collaboration, and supporting culturally safer, values-based engagement with clients and communities. Key takeaways from this workshop include:

  • Embedding decolonial practices into daily professional routines, leadership styles, and team systems.
  • Cultivating leadership grounded in cultural safety that moves beyond awareness into meaningful action.
  • Implementing practical tools to transform organizational culture, guiding team cohesion and client relationships toward equity and cultural safety.

HSA is pleased to have Len Pierre, CEO of Len Pierre Consulting, facilitate this day of learning.

Len Pierre (He/Him) is Coast Salish from Katzie (kate-zee) First Nation. He is an educator, consultant, TEDx Speaker, social activist, change agent, and traditional knowledge keeper. He has a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University focusing on Indigenous curriculum and instructional design. His experience includes Indigenous education and program leadership from various organizations across colonial Canada.

He specializes in the development of educational programs and services with decolonization and reconciliation as its core values. He comes to us with an open heart and an open mind, and hopes to be received in the same way.

Participants must be able to attend the entire day, and registration priority is given to those who have not taken an elective workshop in the last three years. If you are unable to attend the entire workshop, please review our workshop schedule to find an event where you can participate to the fullest.

As per HSA policy, dependent care costs and wage replacement will be provided. Participants must request time off from their employer once the union confirms workshop acceptance. If the workshop is on a scheduled workday, wage replacement will be provided. If the workshop is on a day off, participants are entitled to bank the time as paid union leave to be taken at a later date.

To register for this workshop log into My Events Registration using the prompts provided. Workshops are listed under Steward Education events. Please select ‘create a login’ through the Event Registration and click on the ‘here’ to receive your member ID by email or call the HSA office at 604-517-0994 or 1-800-663-6119 if you do not know your HSA member ID number.

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