Nahuen

10/08/2026

The Story We Don’t See: Understanding Homelessness, Substance Use & Safety

Our first workshop is happening this Saturday, and registration filled up within the first day!

The response has reinforced something we already believed: there is both an interest in and a need for more education and open conversation about homelessness, substance use, and community safety.

These aren’t always easy conversations to have. They can challenge our assumptions, bring up uncomfortable questions, and ask us to look at situations from perspectives we may not have considered before. But that’s also why we believe they’re so important.

The Story We Don’t See invites us to look beyond what we see on the surface and explore the experiences, circumstances, and systems that shape homelessness and substance use. We’ll talk about stigma, safety, and the difference between feeling uncomfortable and being in danger, while exploring how understanding can influence the ways we respond to one another.

We’re not expecting everyone to arrive with the same experiences, opinions, or answers. We want to create space for curiosity, reflection, and meaningful conversation, even when the topics are difficult.

If you missed registration, we’ve opened a waitlist!

Joining the waitlist means you’ll be contacted if a space becomes available this Saturday, and you’ll also be notified when registration opens for our next session.

We’re hoping to offer another free community workshop before the end of 2026, so stay tuned!

We also have two more Ready to Respond: Opioid Poisoning Response Training sessions scheduled for 2026!

📅 October 19
📅 December 12

These two-hour community trainings provide practical knowledge and skills to recognize and respond to opioid poisoning emergencies, including how to administer naloxone and provide potentially lifesaving support.

Registration and waitlist are available through the ticket link in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who continues to show an interest in learning, asking questions, and being part of these important conversations.

We belong to each other.
Nahuen Consultation

10/07/2026

So grateful to have been part of The Love Notes Campaign — a conversation centred around what it means to heal loudly, together.

So much of the evening came back to healing through community, connection, shared stories, and making space for the conversations that help us better understand ourselves and one another.

Thank you to ralph_bryant for creating the space and inviting Nahuen to be part of it, and to everyone who showed up, listened, shared, and added their voice to the conversation.

There’s lots more to come, and we hope even more of you will join us for the next one. ✨

10/06/2026

Tonight: Heal Loudly Together ❤️

Tonight, Victor will be joining Love Notes and other community voices for a panel and conversation exploring what it takes for us to heal, individually and collectively, and how we create communities where people feel supported, connected and cared for.

Victor will be bringing perspectives from his lived experience and his work in homelessness, harm reduction and community safety, alongside others bringing their own experiences, knowledge and ways of understanding healing.

And this isn’t just a panel you come and watch.

Following the conversation, the space will open into a Community Healing Circle. You’re welcome to pull up a chair, bring a blanket and get comfortable on the floor, share if you’d like, or simply listen and be part of the space.

You don’t need to work in this field or have any particular knowledge to attend. If conversations about healing, community, connection and how we care for one another matter to you, you’re welcome here.

Free and open to everyone.
Tonight at 7 PM.

We’re really looking forward to being part of this conversation. ❤️

What does it look like when healing becomes something we do together?

On October 5, Victor will be joining a community conversation at Take Home QTBIPOC Arts House exploring the question:

What will it take for us to Heal Loudly Together?

Part of the Love Notes Residency, the evening will bring people together for a dialogue about mental health, wellness, community, and what healing can look like when we move beyond individual responsibility and begin thinking about the conditions, relationships, and communities that help people heal.

Following the panel conversation, the room will open into a Healing Circle, creating space for those gathered to add their own voices and experiences to the conversation.

So much of our work at Nahuen comes back to a similar belief: care is relational. Connection matters. And healthier communities are built when we recognize our responsibility to one another.

We’re grateful to be part of this conversation — and we’d love to see you there.

📍 Take Home QTBIPOC Arts House
📅 October 5
🕖 7:00 PM
✨ Free + open to all

10/04/2026

🍻🧠 We’re trying something a little different.

Nahuen Consultation is taking harm reduction education out of the classroom and into the taproom for our first Harm Reduction Trivia at Barn Hammer Brewing!

How much do you actually know about harm reduction?

Probably more than you think. And maybe less than you think. That’s half the fun.

We’ll be talking drugs, alcohol, brains, myths, stigma, science, everyday harm reduction, strange facts — and probably a few things you were confidently wrong about.

Think you’re an expert? Prove it.
Know absolutely nothing? Come anyway.

This one is for everyone. Come with a team, make one when you arrive, or come on your own.

📅 Sunday, November 8
⏰ Taproom opens at 2 PM | Trivia 3–5 PM
📍 Barn Hammer Brewing
🎟️ $25/person — includes one alcoholic or non-alcoholic taproom drink

Prizes. Drinks. Surprisingly useful information.

Come for the trivia. Leave knowing something you didn’t before.

🎟️ Tickets are live now — link in our bio.

10/03/2026

Understand what you’re seeing. Respond differently.

What we understand shapes what we believe.

What we believe shapes how we respond.

And how we respond shapes the world somebody else has to live in.

That’s why education can be harm reduction.

Question 02 of Nahuen Conversations features Victor’s full presentation from the 2026 Manitoba Harm Reduction Conference:

🎙️ What changes when we understand substance use differently?

Watch or listen to the full conversation through the link in our bio.

10/03/2026

🌟 What a Training Participant is Saying About Ready to Respond 🌟

We’re grateful to share this reflection from a participant in our Ready to Respond: Opioid Poisoning Response Training.

Ready to Respond is about building confidence, reducing stigma, learning practical response skills, and creating communities where people feel prepared to support one another.

“This was one of the best trainings I’ve been to. It created such a welcoming and safe space, weaving personal stories and conversation into the learning and recognizing our shared experiences as collective knowledge.”

We believe some of the most meaningful learning happens when people feel comfortable asking questions, sharing experiences, and learning from one another. We’re grateful to every participant who helps create that kind of space with us. 💛

👉 Interested in attending Ready to Respond? Tickets for our upcoming community trainings are available through the link in our bio.

Interested in bringing Ready to Respond to your team or organization? Get in touch to learn more.

10/02/2026

This one means a lot to us.

For years, we’ve talked about the conversations we wish more of us were having about homelessness, substance use, stigma and safety.

About what we see happening in our communities — and what we don’t see.

The experiences that came before. The systems people move through. The role of trauma, substance use and stigma. The assumptions we make about safety. And what can change when we understand more of the story.

Next week, we finally get to bring that conversation into community.

The Story We Don’t See: Understanding Homelessness, Substance Use & Safety is a new Nahuen Consultation workshop created to make space for learning, reflection, questions and conversation about issues many of us encounter in our communities.

We’re beginning with a small community pilot so there’s room for conversation and meaningful feedback. Participants will also be invited to complete a short survey afterward to help us strengthen the workshop before we offer it more broadly.

📅 Saturday, October 10 · 2–4 PM
📍 Cornish Library
🎟️ Free · Registration required · Limited spots

No previous knowledge or experience is required. Just come ready to learn, reflect and be part of the conversation.

Registration is now open — link in bio.

10/02/2026

We’re starting something new.

Between Us is the Nahuen Consultation newsletter — a space to continue some of the conversations that don’t always fit into a social media post.

A few times a year, we’ll share ideas we’re thinking about, community resources, upcoming trainings and events, stories from our work, and things we think are worth passing along.

No crowded inbox. Just something thoughtful from us every few months.

Our first issue is coming soon.

Sign up now to have Between Us delivered to your inbox.
🔗 Link in bio

09/30/2026

September 30 is a day to remember.

To remember the children who never came home. To honour Survivors, their families and communities. And to recognize that the harms of residential schools and colonial policies do not exist only in our history.

They continue to shape systems, families and communities today.

We see those connections in many of the spaces our work brings us into — homelessness, substance use, incarceration, family separation, health and access to care.

Understanding that history changes how we understand what we see in front of us now.

But reconciliation asks more of us than understanding. It asks us to consider what that understanding changes.

How do we respond to people experiencing hardship? Whose knowledge do we value? What assumptions do we carry? Where do our systems continue to cause harm? And what does it look like to support Indigenous people not only in surviving those systems, but in culture, connection, self-determination and community?

Today we remember.

And tomorrow, the work continues.

09/29/2026

Our first Ready to Respond Youth training is officially in the books. 💛

On Saturday, we brought young people together to talk about opioid poisoning awareness and response, harm reduction, stigma, and what being prepared can actually look like.

But because this was our first youth pilot, listening was just as important.

Thank you to the youth who showed up, participated, asked questions, and took the time to share their feedback with us. And thank you to the parents and caregivers who saw the value in this education and supported their young people in taking part.

We want Ready to Respond Youth to be shaped not just for young people, but with them — and their feedback will help us strengthen the training as we move forward.

We’re grateful to everyone who helped us take this first step. 💛