Last week, I had the gift of spending time with my dear friend and CC mentor, Daniel Elliott of Stz’uminus First Nation. Dan is very special to me, and he carries so many gifts. He is an incredible artist, writer, poet, storyteller, cultural worker and medicine person. He carries an exuberance and excitement for life, and has endless ideas he wishes to dream into being. I have been to Dan’s sweats. I have seen how he bundles medicines to brush people off, and how he smudges, choosing what to...

Several years ago, a community member invited me for a coffee so we could get acquainted. As we sat in conversation at the Starbucks in Chapters, he shared with me how much he valued our recorded library, but that it was a lot to wade through when you are looking for guidance on one specific things: like what to consider when visiting a community for the first time, how to approach a land acknowledgement, or how to provide care in a culturally respectful way. It would be wonderful, he said,...

Uy skweyul siiye'yu (Good day friends), Over the next few months I am going to be weaving through Teachings Tuesday's that feature one of our incredible Mentors: who they are, how they came to share in this work, and a few of the reasons we love them so much. This week I'd like to introduce you to my dear friend, Daniel Elliott of Stz'uminus First Nation. And to do that, I have to go back quite a few years. In 2017 I had the amazing good fortune to meet an incredible man who would end up...