Native Workshops Workshops for Native American and First Nations People Author Laura Ramirez offers two workshops: A Return to Child Stewardship and Healing the Wounds of Conquest

Audience participants at a recent workshop in Canada

In A Return to Child Stewardship, which is a 2-day interactive workshop, author and
speaker, Laura Ramirez, teaches parents, elders and child care professionals how to:

• Understand the Gulf Between Native and Mainstream Culture
• Reclaim Native Parenting Practices that Are Nurturing & Humane
• Use Mother Nature to Teach Kids the Basics of Human Psychology
• Raise Kids to Cultivate Inner Strengths
• Teach Children to Make Good Choices without Shame or Blame
  
• Show Kids How to Navigate Both Cultures
  
• Create a Family Code
• Raise Children with a Strong Vision for their Future
  
• Use Parenting as a Path of Personal Growth
• Take Good Care of Yourself
  

In this transformative 2-day multi-media Native workshop which includes a series of
exercises and also encourages audience members to share their stories, parents will
take away new skills and understandings that they can apply right away with their
children. Using these strategies, parents can raise a generation of children who are
strong, centered in their values and use their strengths to create meaningful lives
and a better world for all of us.

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Here is what audience members have said about the workshop:

This workshop was eye-opening for me. I had many aha moments. I learned a lot and will definitely
be more conscious of my parenting skills. I appreciate how Laura puts parenting into an
understandable, spiritual perspective. Laura really knows and understands Native people.
I am grateful to have crossed paths with her. Thank you, Laura, for your knowledge,
expertise and personal life experiences!

The workshop was insightful and a good reminder for me. It provided tools for self-reflection
and showed me how to be a more intentional parent. Next time, we should invite elders from
our own nations to show how we can walk together through life.

Tremendous workshop. Teaches so much about life, not only about parenting, but about the
parents' lives too. This gave me a better understanding of myself and others. I learned many
ways of dealing with different situations. Loved the speaker's stories.

I learned so much about how to change and enhance my own parenting skills as well as to
inform my partner so we can strengthen our family. I feel like this information is very useful
to bring back to our families, community and friends. I like that our traditions are being
shared by non-native people through Ms. Ramirez' work. Cultural awareness is good.

I found this program to be unique and insightul. Mrs. Ramirez' understanding of child
stewardship shows a special way of raising our children. Much respect to you for coming,
Laura. This helped round out my understanding of what it means to be a mother. I will
definitely recommend this workshop to everyone on my life's journey.

Laura is warm and knowledgable. She really listens to what other's have to say. She is
helpful in a mentoring way, rather than judgmental. She let others have time to speak
and tell their stories. I would like to come back to another workshop just like this again.

I have taken a lot of programs on parenting and this was better than all of them put
together. This is important information both for native and non-native parents.

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Healing the Wounds of Conquest

"Many Native and First Nations people are still suffering from a conquered mentality. Although
the damage caused by the genocide that occurred on this continent has been horrific and extensive,
Native people can emerge from this stronger and wiser than before." It is with this intention that
Laura offers a 2-day intensive workshop to help Native American and First Nations people begin
to heal.

Here is the process that audience members participate in:

• Understanding What Really Happened on this Continent
• The Clash Between Mainstream & Native Beliefs
• Assimilation & the Deepening Spiritual Void
• Honoring the Suffering of Our Ancestors
• Sharing Stories & Healing
• Reclaiming Self, Ways & Spiritual Beliefs
• Rising Above the Past
• Walking the Path of Healing & Inviting Others to Do the Same

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