Indigenous Empowerment & Resilience Training

What is it?

The National Indian Education Association partnered with KAIROS Canada to become certified facilitators of the Kairos Blanket Healing Exercise (KBE). NIEA participated in the Facilitator Training so that we would be able to provide and implement the blanket healing exercise in our own local communities, both Native and non-Native.

Now rebranded as the NIEA Indigenous Empowerment & Resilience Training, the KAIROS Blanket Exercise program is a unique, participatory history lesson — developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers and educators — that fosters truth, understanding, respect and reconciliation among Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

To request the Blanket Exercise in your own community, please contact Caitlin Baker, cbaker@niea.org.