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Len Pierre Consulting Challenging the status quo for reconciliation, decolonization and Indigenous cultural safety.

All minds are sacred. When autism and neurodivergence are understood only through clinical, compliance-based, or deficit...
09/14/2026

All minds are sacred. When autism and neurodivergence are understood only through clinical, compliance-based, or deficit-focused lenses, systems can miss what matters: a person’s gifts, communication, relationships, cultural context, dignity, and place in community.

Journeying Together invites a different conversation. Grounded in Indigenous leadership, lived experience, research, family knowledge, and relationship, this gathering will explore compassionate and non-coercive responses to distress; strengths-based and sensory-informed support; and the importance of belonging, consent, and communication.

Speakers Dr. Louis Busch, Dr. Grant Bruno, Allison Balfour, and Len Pierre will bring distinct perspectives to a shared invitation: to move beyond asking how people should fit systems and toward asking how systems can honour the many ways people learn, sense, communicate, relate, and belong.

Join us Saturday, November 28 in Surrey, BC or via livestream access
Community and professional ticket rates are available.

Learn more and register: https://vist.ly/5ifbw

When responsibility is high but authority, resources, and safety are low, the harm may be a sign of how the work has bee...
09/10/2026

When responsibility is high but authority, resources, and safety are low, the harm may be a sign of how the work has been structured.

Join Lise Gillies for When the Work Harms the Worker, a 90-minute online webinar about Indigenous-specific psychosocial hazards in cultural safety, reconciliation, and anti-racism work.

Together, we will examine cultural load, moral distress, unclear roles, unsafe reporting pathways, and the under-resourcing of Indigenous leadership—and consider how to build safer, more sustainable roles and systems.

📅 Thursday, September 24
🕛 12:00–1:30 p.m. Pacific
💻 Online
🧡 Offered by donation in support of The Ballantyne Project Register: Link in bio.

Our summer newsletter is here! Catch up on what is happening at LPC and find your next step for learning, reflection, an...
09/09/2026

Our summer newsletter is here!

Catch up on what is happening at LPC and find your next step for learning, reflection, and connection. This edition brings together upcoming events, accessible learning opportunities, and stories from across our team and community.

Read it here: https://vist.ly/5huwf

Not subscribed yet? Join the LPC newsletter to receive new resources, events, teachings, and opportunities to stay connected.

You can sign up here: https://vist.ly/5huwi

We'd love to know: what kind of learning would be most useful in your inbox this fall?

Registration is now open for Journeying Together: Indigenous Perspectives on Autism & Neurodivergence. Taking place in S...
09/03/2026

Registration is now open for Journeying Together: Indigenous Perspectives on Autism & Neurodivergence.

Taking place in Surrey on November 28th, 2026 and by live-stream, this community-centred gathering creates space for a different kind of conversation, led by Indigenous knowledge, culture, lived experience, research, and relationship.

Together with Louis Busch, Dr. Grant Bruno, Allison Balfour, and Len Pierre, participants will explore how colonial ideas of “normal,” behavioural compliance, and deficit-based support have shaped systems of care, education, diagnosis, and intervention. We will also consider what becomes possible when support is grounded in dignity, belonging, consent, communication, and the understanding that all minds are sacred.

This gathering welcomes Indigenous communities and organizations, families and caregivers, Autistic and Neurodivergent people, educators, healthcare and social-service professionals, and others seeking culturally grounded, relationship-centred approaches.

Community and professional rates are available for both in-person and online attendance.

Learn more and register: https://vist.ly/5h7wd

We raise our hands in deep gratitude to the following partners, allies and friends for helping make this important community event possible:
-Clayton Heights Sports & Therapy Center
-South Surrey Events Centre
-Five Star Catering
-We Film Events

September invites us to explore and deepen our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation as ongoing work grounded in learni...
09/01/2026

September invites us to explore and deepen our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation as ongoing work grounded in learning, relationship, and action. As we move toward the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th, consider choosing actions you can carry beyond this month:

-Listen to Survivors and uplift and learn from Indigenous voices
-Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and identify one connected to your role or sector. Commit to honouring that call.
-Support Indigenous-led organizations, artists, events, and businesses.
-Bring what you learn on your decolonizing journey back to your team, policies, and everyday practice.

One opportunity to gather and learn this month is the fifth annual stɑl̓əw̓ Pow Wow. Presented by the Indigenous women-led stɑl̓əw̓ Arts & Cultural Society, everyone is welcome to attend September 11-13 at the Langley Events Centre. Indigenous-led gatherings like this offer a great opportunity to experience music, dance, food and community. As guests, we can arrive with respect and curiosity, follow the guidance of hosts, and remember that attending is part of a longer responsibility to listen and act. We hope to see you there!

You can learn more here: https://vist.ly/5gwab

So what commitment will you carry forward beyond September? Tell us in the comments or by resharing this post to be entered to win a our giveaway - a one hour executive coaching session with Len Pierre!

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we come together to honour the lives and legacies of the people who have been l...
08/31/2026

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we come together to honour the lives and legacies of the people who have been lost to the toxic drug crisis. We hold close the families, friends, Elders, and communities who continue to carry these losses.

For Indigenous peoples, this mourning is held within a history of grief and disruption. Colonial government policies, the residential school system, the Sixties Scoop, child welfare, and ongoing inequities in health and housing have shaped the conditions in which many of our people experience substance use and barriers to care. We recognize that for Indigenous peoples, the overdose crisis cannot be separated from this painful history, but it also cannot be separated from our history of resilience and strength.

Today, we remember those who have gone before us. In protocol, we speak their names. We make space for ceremony, tears, silence, stories, and the teachings of our Elders and Knowledge Keepers. We recognize that every life lost leaves an empty place in a family and a community.

But mourning must also call us to action.

In British Columbia, Indigenous people continue to be disproportionately impacted by the toxic drug crisis. This demands responses grounded in dignity, cultural safety, self-determination, and Indigenous leadership. It means ensuring that people can access culturally relevant healing, harm reduction, mental wellness and substance-use services without stigma, racism, or judgment. It means strengthening connection to land, language, culture, family, community, and ceremony as important sources of wellness and belonging, and creating conditions where every person has the opportunity to live with dignity and connection.

We also honour the people who are still here - those living with substance use, those in recovery, those grieving, those who use drugs to survive difficult circumstances, and the families and communities walking alongside them. Their lives are worthy of care, respect, and hope.

We remember. We grieve. We stand together. And we act.

May we carry the memory of those we have lost not in grief, but in our commitment to protecting life, strengthening community, and building a future where fewer families have to experience this pain.

Across sectors, many organizations are making commitments to reconciliation, Indigenous cultural safety and anti-racism....
08/18/2026

Across sectors, many organizations are making commitments to reconciliation, Indigenous cultural safety and anti-racism. These commitments are well intended, but often, meaningful change remains slow and the people leading this work are often carrying its greatest costs. The people responsible for advancing this work are often experiencing cultural load, moral distress, role ambiguity, unsafe team dynamics, burnout and high turnover.

What if these outcomes are not isolated interpersonal conflicts, but recurring signs of how the work has been structured?

'When the Work Harms the Worker: Rethinking How We Structure Indigenous Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism' is a webinar intended for professionals, leaders and change-makers advancing Indigenous cultural safety, reconciliation and anti-racism across sectors. Hosted by Lise Gillies (Cree/Métis/Settler), this 90-minute session will explore Indigenous-specific psychosocial hazards and the conditions that allow harm to repeat—including scarcity, responsibility without authority, unclear roles, unsafe reporting pathways and the under-resourcing of Indigenous leadership.

Participants will learn how to:
- Distinguish ordinary interpersonal conflict from patterned lateral harm and structural risk
- Recognize psychosocial hazards affecting workers and teams
- Identify how responsibility, workload, authority and risk are being distributed
- Advocate for safer, more sustainable roles and systems
- Reflect on how each of us can interrupt harm and protect workers without individualizing blame

This is about recognizing patterns, locating responsibility at the right level and changing the conditions that allow harm to continue.

Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟬-𝟭:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗦𝗧
Registration through Eventbrite: https://vist.ly/5faj9

What does reconciliation have to do with finance and accounting? A good place to begin is by looking at power: who holds...
08/13/2026

What does reconciliation have to do with finance and accounting?

A good place to begin is by looking at power: who holds it, how it is exercised, whose knowledge and priorities are reflected, and who may be affected by decisions that can otherwise appear neutral or technical.

In this new blog post, Zuzana Duris, Manager of Finance at LPC, explores how financial practices can shape relationships, access, trust, and accountability, and what it looks like to approach this work through the lens of decolonization and cultural safety. We are invited to question the assumptions and power structures embedded in everyday organizational practices such as budgets, policies, payment processes, and consider how they can either reinforce existing imbalances or create opportunities to shift them.

Cultural safety and reconciliation are ongoing practices - ones that ask us to pay attention not only to what we do, but to the relationships and histories that shape how we do it.

If you work in finance, accounting, operations, or simply want to think more deeply about how reconciliation can show up across an organization, we invite you to give it a read on our blog: https://vist.ly/5eqhv

When a learning environment is heart-centered and rooted in relationship, it offers us a space in which deep, transforma...
08/06/2026

When a learning environment is heart-centered and rooted in relationship, it offers us a space in which deep, transformative learning can take place.

Our very first public Longhouse Experiential Workshop is designed to be a space where we can gather in a good way, learn, and grow together. Hosted by Len Pierre Consulting at the beautiful Swaneset Longhouse on the traditional territory of Katzie First Nation, this experience invites participants to engage with reconciliation as a lived practice grounded in humility, curiosity, relationships, and collective responsibility.

Whether you are beginning your learning journey or looking to deepen your understanding of reconciliation, this workshop offers a welcoming space to learn alongside others through Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and learning

Hosted by Len Pierre Consulting, this experience features:
✨A cultural opening led by Donovan Sylvester
✨ Exploring of Indigenous and Colonial Worldviews through the "Circle" and the "Box" framework
✨ A shared meal prepared by Indigenous Catering
✨ Reflection, dialogue, storytelling, and connection

All are welcome. Date and other important information below!

📅 Saturday, September 12, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Swaneset Longhouse, Katzie First Nation
🎟️ $149 per person - Registration through Eventbrite: https://vist.ly/5dvb8

Please note:
• Minimum age requirement is 17 years old due to cultural sensitivity and course content.
• Space is limited and registration is required.

We look forward to gathering with you in a good way.

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Here’s a little look behind the scenes at LPC!This summer, Nadine McSpadden (Secwépemc) and Zoe McDonnell (Scottish) led...
08/04/2026

Here’s a little look behind the scenes at LPC!

This summer, Nadine McSpadden (Secwépemc) and Zoe McDonnell (Scottish) led the LPC team through a land-based learning workshop that skillfully wove together traditional wildcraft dyeing practices and a Two-Eyed Seeing approach.

This hands-on workshop offered the team the opportunity to connect with natural materials and learn how to work with plants and mushrooms in a responsible and reciprocal way that celebrates both the generosity and abundance of earth and the ingenuity of Indigenous knowledge systems.

Wildcraft Dyeing: Two-Eyed Seeing Natural Wool Dyeing is a workshop we are honoured to offer through our Cultural Learning Experiences. It provides a unique space to slow down, learn together, and reconnect with natural processes through creativity and care.

You can learn more about our Wildcraft Dyeing workshop on our website: https://vist.ly/5djz3

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