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Sagkeeng Education Regional Conference March 25 & 26, 2014

"Mino-Pimatiziwin: Promoting positive school health practices and First Nation perspectives”

Keynote Speaker Information for Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Honourable Kevin Chief, Minister responsible for the City of Winnipeg, Minister responsible for children and youth opportunities

Biography Kevin Chief is a proud life-long resident of Winnipeg’s North End and is the MLA for Point Douglas. He was appointed Minister of Children and Youth Opportunities by Premier Greg Selinger in January 2012 and recently appointed to Minister responsible for the City of Winnipeg. Kevin is a dedicated and dynamic leader that understands the challenges that face our communities and neighbourhoods. In his work through school divisions, through non-profit, and in the community, Kevin has focused his efforts on creating meaningful opportunities for children and youth through education, employment, and mentorship.

Breakout Sessions

School Health and Policies

School Planning

Skills for Mino-Pimatiziwin: Preparing our Students for Total Living – George Ross (MFNERC School Planning Specialist) Audience – Everyone

Preparation for total living, what does it mean? We will give our children the tools for survival into the 21st Century. The purpose of education will be discussed. What should we be teaching?

The workshop’s main goal is to generate healthy discussion on how we should be raising and teaching our children.

Visiting a Journey from Cultural Awareness to Cultural Competency - Dr. Myra Laramee (Aboriginal Awareness Consultant, Aboriginal Education Directorate, Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning) Audience: Teacher Leaders, Teachers, Administration

This ½ day workshop will open doors for participants to begin to understand that Indigenous Ways of Knowing are important enough to be the central focus of integrating subject area outcomes into an Aboriginal Perspective rather than the other way around. I will explain a four day experiential training package called A Journey from Cultural Awareness to Cultural Competency. Both Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people alike have been robbed of the value in the information hidden and contained within the concepts of “Mino-Pimatiziwin”. There are 18 tools that are part of the Journeys Training which will help schools integrate Aboriginal Educational activities in school plans throughout the school year.

School Emergency Response Plan – Ralph Arthurson (MFNERC) Audience – Administrators and teachers. This breakout session will look at the roles and responsibilities of teachers, students, custodians and school administrators during a school emergency.

Making Your School a Better Place by Collecting Data - Wayne Grafton (MFNERC Student Transition Specialist) Audience –Everyone

This breakout session will look at how schools can generate and use information about their students in order to get a better picture of what their school is like. The hope is that this student information will help teachers have evidence based discussions and help school staff improve their school and increase student success. We will look at a student survey program used in public schools (Tell Them From Me) and we will review the data collected from 4 First Nation schools.

Helping Students Succeed in School and in Life – Wayne Grafton (MFNERC Student Transition Specialist) Audience -Everyone

This workshop invites teachers to explore and share ideas about what might work in schools where too many kids skip classes, misbehave, and dropout. How can schools help students be more successful? Teachers will spend some time looking at the results of interviews completed by kids who have dropped out and what they might tell us about how we can help kids be more successful in school and in life.

Workplace Health & Safety

Mental Health in the Workplace - Maureen Grace (RN,CAE, Mental Health Works Trainer) Audience: all staff, workers, leaders, Health and Safety Committee members

Learn about the prevalence of mental illness, what symptoms to look for in the workplace and what to do once you have noticed. Hear about real stories via videos and stories. This session will help you to think about mental illness in a new way.

The Psychologically Safe Workplace - Maureen Grace (RN,CAE, Mental Health Works Trainer)

Audience: all staff, workers, leaders, Health and Safety Committee members

Learn about the New Standard and the 12 factors of Psychological Safety in the Workplace. Find out your organizations strengths and weaknesses and develop some strategies to create and or maintain a psychologically safe workplace. This session builds on the Mental Health in the Workplace session.

Respectful Workplace: Developing a caring, compassionate relationships using Traditional Aboriginal Teachings - Josie Bear (Elder, Counsellor, Instructor) Audience - Everyone

Josie was born in Peguis First Nation in 1943. She attended Residential School and had 6 children. She has 30 years of knowledge gathered in all areas. She has had training in a variety of counseling areas and has been an instructor for Aboriginal counseling programs at the U of M. She has delivered a variety of workshops throughout many communities and she believes that we all need to find our way back to "Spirit."

This session will explore ways of improving our communication and interpersonal skills. We will explore ways of building caring compassionate relationships and look at ways to better deal with conflict among students, colleagues, and in our personal relationships.

Bullying in the Workplace: Lateral Violence – Kevin Kipling (Mental Health Promotion Liaison Officer) Audience -Everyone

The objective of this 1/2 day workshop is to have a diverse conversation and exploration of a complex issue like bullying or Lateral Violence (bullying in the workplace). Bullying if untreated can lead to PTSD, Depression, and in some cases, Suicide. Some of the key elements to address this complex issue are: Prevention, Education, and Reaction.

Discussion on why children bully, what it feels like, what it looks like etc. Help staff recognize the signs of lateral violence and the history of the issue. Conflict resolution techniques and how to dealing with the parents will be addressed. We will look at lateral violence in the work place and the effect on the First Nation Community

as a whole. (video) We will discuss how children are being diagnosed with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,

and Depression.

One of the newest and more effective ways of bullying today is cyberbullying, and will be included in the workshop.

Non-Violent Crisis Intervention - Getrude Sanderson (MFNERC Special Education Specialist) Audience – Everyone (Note: Certification requires workshop to begin promptly at 9 am. Please note there is a Maximum limit of 30 participants)

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Workshop - The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training includes: Unit 1: The Crisis Development Model identifies the behavior levels that contribute to the development of a crisis and the ability to choose an appropriate staff intervention for each level. Unit 2&3: Nonverbal and Para-verbal Communication identifies useful nonverbal techniques which can help to prevent acting-out behavior. Unit 4: Verbal Intervention identifies verbal techniques to de-escalate behavior. Unit 5: Integrated Experience, Precipitating Factors, and Rational Detachment identifies factors in which staff have little or no control over and to have the ability to not take acting-out behavior personally. Unit 6: Staff Fear and Anxiety identifies the productive and unproductive ways staff responds to fear. Unit 7: CPI's Personal Safety Techniques demonstrates principles of personal safety to avoid injury if behavior escalates to a physical level. Concludes with Unit 10: Post-vention identifies the COPING Model for students and staff for Therapeutic Rapport.

Mental Health

Stress: What is the big deal? – John Hawranik (IERHA Mental Health Worker) Audience: Everyone

Stress is a word we hear a lot about. Do you recognize how much stress you have in your life? Today's presentation will be about when stress is helpful, when it isn't and the problems that it can lead to. You will have an opportunity to evaluate how much stress you are dealing with and what you can do about it.

Understanding Anxiety Disorders - Elsa Sydorko (Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba) Audience – Everyone

What are anxiety disorders? Symptoms, causes, treatment, medication, and lifestyle choices will be discussed.

Adolescent Depression – Orysia Klymkiw (Mental Health Promotions Facilitator IERHA) Audience – everyone working with adolescents

This workshop will provide an overview of the signs and symptoms and causes of depression in adolescents. It will explore how we can work with youth with depression to support them inside and outside the school system.

Balance and Wellness: Creating harmony within yourself through Traditional Aboriginal Teachings - Josie Bear (Elder, Counsellor, Instructor) Audience - Everyone

Josie was born in Peguis First Nation in 1943. She attended Residential School and had 6 children. She has 30 years of knowledge gathered in all areas. She has had training in a variety of counseling areas and has been an instructor for Aboriginal counseling programs at the U of M. She has delivered a variety of workshops throughout many communities and she believes that we all need to find our way back to "Spirit."

This 1/2 day session will explore the four dimensions of the medicine wheel and have the participants reflect on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual parts of their being and develop a plan to regain balance and harmony in their lives.

Stress Management - Darrell Bear (Counsellor, Instructor) Audience - Everyone

Darrell was born in Peguis First Nation and he is the eldest child of Josephine and Wallace Bear. He has 2 children. He has his Counseling skills certificate from the U of M. He has had a variety of training in other counseling areas and taught courses of Aboriginal counseling programs. He has delivered programs and workshops in many areas including anger management and stress management. This session will explore what causes stress and how to effectively deal with it using Traditional Aboriginal approaches.

Anger Management - Darrell Bear (Counsellor, Instructor) Audience - Everyone

Darrell was born in Peguis First Nation and he is the eldest child of Josephine and Wallace Bear. He has 2 children. He has his Counseling skills certificate from the U of M. He has had a variety of training in other counseling areas and taught courses of Aboriginal counseling programs. He has delivered programs and workshops in many areas including anger management and stress management. This session will explore what causes stress and how to effectively deal with it using Traditional Aboriginal approaches. This session will explore what is beneath one's anger and provide skills to deal with issues in a more positive way.

Social Media and Cyberbullying - Linda Dorie & Josh Laforte (Wellness Centre) Audience: Everyone

This session will focus on social media and cyberbullying and its effects using videos. Handouts will be provided.

Addictions – Linda Fontaine (NNADAP worker, Wellness Centre) Audience: Everyone

This 75 min session will briefly look at: What is an addiction? What kind of addictions are there? How do substance addictions affect the brain? What are the roots to an addiction? What are some self assessment tools we can use to identify problem use? What are some resources available? We will also look at healthy coping skills.

Cultural & Spiritual Wellness

Diversity of Gender Identities – Linda Dorie & Josh Laforte (Wellness Centre) Audience: Everyone

We will explore gender identities (LGBTTQQ*) and differences. What is the Canadian and Traditional history of gender evolution? What are our biases and beliefs and how that affects individuals who identify with LGBTTQQ*. How can you support a safe environment for individuals to express their gender identity?

Bear Lodge Sweat & Teachings – Dylan Courchene & Cheryl Edwards (IRS Cultural Support Workers) Audience –Everyone

We will be sharing the Traditional teaching component of the Sweat Lodge to understanding Traditional medicines, use, protocols, offering of tobacco and offering prayers, spiritual beliefs. Our medicines are highly valued and respected and invite you to learn more about our traditional knowledge. Join us for a ½ day where you will learn about our traditional teachings, how to handle the medicines and take part in a sweat lodge ceremony. (Please come prepared: Basic ceremonial protocol applies – Bring a change of clothes. Women wear a long night gown or long skirts/Tshirts that cover your arms/chest, men bring shorts. Women cannot be on their moon time (menstrual cycle). If you want further prayers bring a meter of cloth and extra tobacco offering.

Traditional Medicines – Harold Fontaine, Linda Fontaine, Earl Twoheart (Wellness Centre) Audience – Everyone

We will look at the natural world and discover the gifts that mother earth provided for preventative means and wellness for human health. We will discuss our four sacred medicines and traditional protocols when gathering and using traditional medicines. Finally, we will share some ways our ancestors used plants for medicines and food to enhance their way of life.

Traditional Storytelling – Jody Gaskin (Storytelling) Audience: Everyone

Jody is from Sault Ste. Marie. He is a recording artist and released four albums with sunshine records from Winnipeg, the world's largest distributer of native music. He has been nominated for an Aboriginal music award and a prairie music award and a former singer for the two time Juno award winning band Eagle and Hawk. He has been performing in schools all over the world for the past thirty years.

In this session he will discuss the importance of traditional storytelling. He will share about a presentation that he performs in schools entitled "winter story time" where he tells ancient stories from his people while dressed in full pow wow regalia. Each story teaches an important lesson like respect, humility and caring for each other. There is also a strong anti-bullying message and during the telling of these stories he will have the kids repeat words in his language, Anishinabemowin. He then takes out a traditional hand drum and speaks of how all humans have drums. He then shares the teachings of the Ojibway drum, peace, community and getting along. He then takes out a traditional Ojibway flute and explains how all humans have flutes. He shares the teachings of the Ojibway flute, loving our family and not taking or family for granted. He then takes out his 25 hoops and invites several kids and maybe even a teacher to participate in the dance who then decides on the best dancer. Then he performs the entire hoop dance by himself. The hoop dance teaches us about the proper use of tobacco. It is used as a healing medicine and not meant to be smoked twenty times a day. Giving the kids an anti smoking message. It is a fun musical and educational experience for all! (He will be doing a performance at our Banquet & Entertainment evening on March 25th)

Personal Health & Wellness

Stress and Healthy Food Tips for the Person on the Go: The effects of Stress on our bodies and how food choices may help to us to manage it better. The Indigenous traditional diet and how we can use some of these methods today! - Trevor Forkheim, RD, CDE, Connie Kuzdak, RN, BN,

CDE, Darlene Hope, CHR Audience - Teachers, TA’s, Anyone who is feels stressed and needs tips for planning healthy snacks/meals!

Come and join us for some fun while incorporating some healthy snacks & meal ideas to make the most out of the foods we eat, or should be eating! This session will also explore how stress affects the body’s blood sugar levels, immune system, and digestion. Further discussion will

include some of the “how to” strategies to planning for nutritious meals with a food demonstration! To conclude, there will be information on the traditional aboriginal diet and how we can use this information from our history to think about what we need to change today for the future health of generations to come.

Self-Care for the Educational Caregiver - Donna Prince, Don Shackel (MFNERC Specialists) Audience: Everyone

This fun and invigorating session will address the stressors of working in the education system. We will identify signs of job stress and emotional burnout. Looking inwards through self-reflection and hands on activities, participants will explore impact of emotional health and wellness in dealing with challenges inherent in educating today’s youth. Participants will create a Personal Wellness Plan to build and promote self and student resilience.

Progressive Relaxation – Don Shackel Audience - Everyone Progressive relaxation is a technique used to health the body mind and spirit. Participants will have an opportunity to experiences a progressive relaxation exercise which can be incorporated into daily life of the busy professional. Wear loose clothes and just a warning--- you might fall asleep. Be prepared to leave refreshed, rejuvenated with skills you can incorporate into your ongoing personal wellness and self-care plan.

Social and Physical Environments

Classroom Climate

Creating a Positive and an Engaging Classroom Climate: It’s been a looong winter! Come alive with activities that appeal to the natural desires of children to move, laugh, and have fun while learning - Arlene Flatfoot & Sylvia Wastesicoot (MFNERC Early Years Specialists) Audience

- Daycare, Head-start, Nursery, Early & Middle years.

Come alive with activities that appeal to the natural desires of children to move, laugh and have fun while learning. Movement improves brain function and frees the brain for other tasks such as reading, writing, memory, problem solving and even confidence. Learn about strategies that will reinforce pro-social behavior, reduce toxic influences, limit problematic behaviors, and increase psychological flexibility (not to act on impulse). The strategies used will also help students develop important life skills such as initiative, attention and concentration,

persistence, frustration tolerance and self-control. These skills have a great bearing on success in life and mino-pimatiziwin.

Physical Health

Physical Literacy: Teaching Fundamental movements through play - Michelle Johnson and Sheldon

Reynolds (Sport MB) Audience - Parents, teachers, daycare workers, rec leaders whoever.

The workshop will discuss physical literacy and its importance in everyday life. It will explore the basic fundamentals of movement and how to do a basic assessment of them. It will involve games that develop the fundamentals of movement, show people how to work with children to improve their movement skills in a fun and effective way and give opportunity for sharing of ideas and experience.

Teaching and Learning

Inclusive Education

Behaviour Intervention Planning – Getrude Sanderson (MFNERC Special Education Specialist) Audience – Everyone

Behaviour Intervention Process: 1) Discuss Student Name, Date, Grade, Target Behavior, Student Responsibility, Staff Responsibility, Parent Responsibility; 2)Proactive Strategy and Reactive Strategy, and Signatures; 3) behavior frequency checklist; 4) anecdotal behavior summary report; 5) student behavior profile; 6) behavior intervention strategies checklist; 7)behavior supports checklist; 8) sample behavior checklist/profile/report; 9)behavior intervention plan procedure; 10) discuss target behaviors, plan participants; 11) discuss student, school, and caregiver responsibility; 12) discuss proactive and reactive strategies for target behavior; 13) review sample BIP's

Strategies for Success: Classroom Teacher/Educational Assistant Relationship - Paula Parisien

& Sylvia Sinclair (MFNERC Training Initiatives Instructors) Audience - Classroom Teachers, Educational Assistants

Many educators have received little or no training to assist them in effectively directing the work of the educational assistant. The purpose of this workshop is to provide basic knowledge and skills to manage and direct the work of the Educational Assistant. They will develop skills in: 1. Establish a CT/EA working relationship 2. Use constructive feedback to improve communication. The CT and EA are working together to meet the diverse needs of the students.

Technology Planning

Ipads in the Classroom – Kevin Biggar (SLP/AT) Audience: Classroom Teachers

Ipads are now in most classrooms but how do we effectively use them with our students. This session will be a lecture style with opportunities for participants to try specific apps. It will cover basic iPad Features and Settings, Where to find Resources, and How these Apps can be used in the classroom. 8 iPads will be available for participants to share during this session. (Participants are also welcome to bring their own ipads.)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Classroom: Online resources to supplement classroom instruction - Ernest Kuch (A private course developer for Wapaskwa Virtual School and a consultant to Parkland Learning Zone. Ernest has experience in ICT as a school coordinator for Winnipeg School Improvement Program and as a MFNERC School Improvement Project specialist. He is the principle developer of www.plzone.net) Audience - Grade 1-8 educators – teachers, resource personal, teacher assistants

This workshop will look at available online resources that may be used by teachers and students. Participants will use computers to look at some of the best websites available on the World Wide Web (www.) The presenter will use the + 1000 websites found in Parkland Zone Directory www.plzone.net to illustrate websites that maybe used as teacher information, student interactive activities, printable worksheets and subject related tests and quizzes. Teachers are encouraged to bring their flash drives to save information that they might prepare using sites such as SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator.

Literacy Planning

Helping Kids Write from K-12 (Donna Prince, Literacy Specialist & Wayne Grafton, Student Transition Specialist) Audience: Everyone

This workshop invites teachers to explore and share ideas about how kids develop as writers. We will look at samples of the continuum of writing from beginners to capable writers and look at how the provincial writing assessment models and the Writing Process are used by teachers.

Math Planning

Mathematics and the Medicine Wheel: Using the Medicine Wheel to enhance student engagement - Margaret Hart & Georgina Moody (MFNERC Numeracy Specialists) Audience: K-8

The Medicine Wheel was placed on Turtle Island by people thousands of years ago. The circle of the Medicine Wheel is continuous, with no beginning and no end. Everything in life is sacred – the earth, animals, plants … everything affects one another. The Medicine Wheel is a tool which can be used in the classroom to help increase student engagement and retain material when presented in a hands on inquiry based environment. Participants will engage in activities connected to the Medicine Wheel. Mental Math Strategies Gr. 1-4 – Virginia Birch (MFNERC Numeracy Specialist) Audience – Kindergarten to Gr. 4 The focus of this workshop is to demonstrate and practice the mental math strategies for Grades 1 to 4 math outcomes in a secure, supportive classroom environment in which the students learn to be risk-takers and value making mistakes as an opportunity to learn.Early Childhood Education

Developmentally Appropriate Practice – Susy Komishin (MFNERC Early Years Literacy Specialist) Audience – Early Years Teachers.

Developmentally appropriate practice, often shortened to DAP, is an approach to teaching grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children’s optimal learning and development. DAP involves teachers meeting young children where they are (by stage of development), both as individuals and as part of a group; and helping each child meet challenging and achievable learning goals. This workshop will provide an opportunity for early years’ teachers to gain awareness of the developmental continuum and how to tie it to their teaching practices.

Self-Regulation – Susy Komishin (MFNERC Early Years Literacy Specialist) Audience – Early Years Teachers

How well students do in school can be determined by how well they are able to focus and attend to a lesson. Self-regulation is essential for enabling children to respond efficiently and effectively to the everyday challenges they face in and out of school. The development of self-regulation happens in the early years and it lays the foundation for higher cognitive functions. We can foster the development of self-regulation in the early years and assist children in developing their executive functions.

Partnerships and Services

Sagkeeng Program Partnerships

Youth Taking Action: Environmental Contamination; Anicinabe Foods and Harvesting Areas - Tim Stevenson (Food Matters) Audience - Educators, Community Health Resource, Community Members, Researchers

Youth Taking Action engaged junior high students from Sagkeeng First Nation and Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, to learn about Anicinabe foods and harvesting practices. This workshop will share experiences from Food Matters Manitoba on how we have engaged youth to be a part of community research that focused on learning about the threats to Anicinabe food and harvesting practices. The workshop will focus on the role of community partners in meeting project objectives, including transfer of knowledge from community harvesters and engaging youth. We will share highlights from the research, and provide an overview of tools and methods used in the project. We will facilitate a discussion about using partnerships to promote transfer of traditional harvesting knowledge through outdoor education.

The Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program: An Interactive Glance at the Mentorship Program - Jon McGavock, Pinar Eskicioglu, and Laura Kathler Audience - Teachers

Type 2 Diabetes is becoming more prevalent in Manitoba, specifically among Aboriginal youth. Very few programs exist that effectively promote healthy living for youth at risk for Type 2 Diabetes. We have piloted an after-school mentorship program that takes a wholistic approach to healthy living. This program is developed and delivered by local high school mentors for elementary students. We will present pilot data from our Aboriginal Youth Mentorship Program. In addition to the presentation, guests will be invited to join us in gaining hands on experience with some activities commonly played during the program.

Land based programming

Sturgeon in the schools: Land based Sturgeon Education – Allan Courchene (Cultural Education Coordinator) Audience- Teachers, administrators. The workshop will discuss how we are engaging youth in our sturgeon project. The workshop will inform the audience about how we tag and measure sturgeon and also give information on the up keep of sturgeon in the schools. The audience will have an opportunity for sharing of ideas and experience about how we can improve involving more youth in our outdoor education programs.

Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Chickens and Gardens- what’s the connection? – Leon Simard (Manitoba First Nations Food Security Coordinator) Audience – Educators, Health, Community

The Manitoba First Nations Food Security Program is completing its third year. Funding is provided through Health Canada to facilitate dialog in the area of Food Security between Federal, provincial governments, non- government organizations and First Nation communities throughout Manitoba. The main objective of the program is to establish and maintain opportunities for Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative workers to promote food security efforts through local food production.

This workshop will share some of the projects involving the raising of chickens for both meat and eggs as well as highlight some community garden projects which have been supported by the program. For the upcoming year, the First Nations Food Security program envisions an increase in participations rates of First Nations schools in current federal and provincial school health programs and services.

Flexible Sessions for Areas of Interest

Science

Portable Planetarium - Wilfred Buck (Science Specialist). Audience: Everyone. Flexible Time Sessions Available: If you are interested you can sign up for sessions throughout the day.

MFNERC has helped create a Portable Planetarium program that is taken all over the province to teach First Nations students traditional stories about the sky, stars and constellations. “Mahtootisan (The Sweat Lodge) can be found approximately two hand spans from the end of the handle of the Big Dipper. On star charts, Mahtootisan is known as Corona Borealis.

Mahtootisan is part of the constellations that talk about Assini Awasis (Stonechild) and the history of how the sweat lodge came to the people.”

This is just one example of a traditional story that is told about constellations in the Portable Planetarium. The Planetarium itself is a large, inflatable dome-like structure that seats approximately 45 students. Images are projected onto the roof of the dome, as participants are immersed in the expanse of the Universe.

On Site Health & Wellness Services

Phillips Massage and Holistic Therapies - Jon Phillips, RMT, Dip Ac

Jon graduated from the Massage Therapy College of Manitoba in 2000. He has been practicing massage therapy in Pine Falls ever since. He has also worked in Selkirk and Lac du Bonnet. He has taken numerous training courses including, most recently, acupuncture training. He can provide chair massage, Chinese Massage (Yuina), and Ayurvedic Head Massage (including back, neck & shoulders). These services can be billed directly to Blue Cross or Great West Life should your plan include massage by an RMT. He can also provide Elemental Qi reading using an electronic sensor, He can then give you a chart after the treatment showing the imbalances in your meridian system. There is another option, that being Chinese massage which is performed on a table, however, the client remains fully clothed. This might be a good option for working in a more "open" environment. This allows me to chart your Qi energy with regard to the 5 elements of Chinese Traditional Medicine. It is also possible to provide Swedish Massage in a "private" location however that would reduce the number of people I could see in a day. Massage and Acupuncture services are available in Pine Falls at Through the Arbour for anyone wishing to book with me there.

Rates: 20 min chair or Ayurvedic Scalp Massage - $30.00

20 min Chinese Table Massage - $30.00 (recommended)

1/2 hour Swedish Massage - $45.00 (in a private setting)

Elemental Qi Reading - $40.00 (not billable)

Reflexology - Christine Phillips (Herbalist and IIR level III Reflexology) Christine has been a practicing herbalist in Pine Falls for over 10 years and has created medicinal teas, salves and other preparations. Part of her healing modalities has included completion of three of four levels with the Institute of Reflexology and has been practicing reflexology for the past six years.

There will be flexible sessions available for interested, which will include: 1) An introduction to reflexology; 2) Reflexes on the foot and hand; 3) Intro to techniques and self practice; 4) A sample session on the hands; and 5) A sample session on the feet. Participants will be provided with handouts

Aromatherapy - Bernice Phillips (Earth to Ocean - Dry Spa Technician) Berncie has taken many aromatherapy courses and classes at Ambrosia Apothecary as well as "The Royal Treatment" at Rae Dunphy of True Essence Essential Oils, also has Levels 1 & 2 of Aromatic Kinesiology with Robbi Zeck, ND. Audience -EveryoneThere will be flexible sessions available for those interested, which will include: 1) An introduction to essential oils; 2) Why essential oils are so special, usage, storage, and precautions; 3) Five most common essential oils and their properties; 4) Smelling session; 5) How to do blends, and recipes. Participants will be provided with handouts.