Sharing Family Medicine through Storytelling

Course description

Led by renowned Tłı̨chǫ Dene author and storyteller Richard Van Camp, this course will explore topics in Indigenous storytelling techniques through our responsibilities in reclaiming and sharing family medicines through storytelling.

We will practice engaging in storytelling in a good way that will engage and inspire our audience. This course is a journey to identify the medicines we deserve in our lives and to engage in various sharing techniques that offer storytelling as an invitation to explore “the Great Mystery” of life together.

In this course,

• we will learn about interviewing techniques and protocol to engage with Elders and Knowledge Keepers
• we will hear from guest speakers about the power of miracle stories to share family and community-based medicine
• we will honour our ancestors while considering the stories we wish to share as we become good ancestors and
• we will foster a student-centred learning journey that holds space for the development of students’ stories reclaiming life lessons, family recipes, forgotten histories, and buried remedies.

As non-credit registrants, you will join the online lectures of this credit class and have access to the online materials and activities, but will not submit assignments or receive grades. This course is open to everyone.