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Indigenous Cultural Competency Certificate
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Indigenous Cultural Competency Certificate

Source: https://allard.ubc.ca/indigenous-legal-studies/indigenous-cultural-competency-certificate Parent: https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/careers-allard-law

This certificate allows participants to engage with teachings about Indigenous peoples and communities, Indigenous perspectives on law, and Indigenous legal systems and to draw on cross-cultural learning opportunities to help develop skills based cultural competencies, such as listening, reflecting, and witnessing. All Allard students, staff and faculty are welcome to register.

Participants must complete all seven modules. Participation in a module includes completing readings for and attending the experiential learning opportunity or guest lecture, as well as the corresponding educational Talking Circle on for that module.

The Talking Circle component of each module offers participants the opportunity to discuss and reflect on the initial experience through both small group discussions and a talking circle.

Participants must also complete a self-reflective journal after each module in order to theorize how to put into practice skills based cultural competencies they are learning. Participants are also encouraged to engage online with discussion and event communications via the Canvas course page.

Certificate Objectives

The ICCC is an eight-month non-credit certificate course that assists participants in developing better understandings of colonial assumptions, beliefs, and biases that form the foundation of the Canadian legal system, the history of colonial practices and policies in Canada, Indigenous perspectives on law, and what decolonization means for the practice of law. Through the program participants will learn about implicit bias, anti-racism, histories of Indigenous-Crown relations, including colonial policies and practices enacted through law, Indigenous perspectives on legal issues, and Indigenous law.

An important part of any professional practice is the ability to be self-reflective. Building the capacity to be self-reflective in both life and work is a key part of developing cultural competence. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own identity by thinking about how they are situated in relation and relationship to Indigenous peoples and communities, Indigenous legal systems, and one another as participants in the program.

A key outcome is to allow participants to engage with broad conceptual thinking and develop skills central to a strong professional practice, namely listening, reflecting, and witnessing.

Read our interview regarding the certificate program.

Evaluation

Participation

Participants must participate in all seven modules offered throughout the year. Attendance will be taken.

Talking Circle

Conducted with talking stick in circle format, each circle with be facilitated by Lee Schmidt, the ILS Associate Director and staff lead for the ICCC.

Reflection Module

Participants will submit a journal component through the Canvas site after each Talking Circle. This is not graded and it fulfills the self-reflection component, which is an essential experiential learning piece of pedagogy. Only the administrators of the ICCC will read these confidential entries. The Canvas site is also where announcements will be made, and discussion and event threads are curated. Be sure to set notifications to 'ON' when you self-enrol with the link which will be sent to those registered.

Assessment

Participants who attend all seven modules will be presented with a Certificate at the closing event, which will include a communal feast, closing talking circle and presentation of certificates.

2022-2023 Schedule

Modules are offered monthly (Excluding December). The experiential learning opportunities will be held on a Tuesday from 12:30-2:00pm, and the corresponding Talking Circle will occur in the same week on the Thursday from 12:30-2:00pm in the Indigenous Classroom (room 123) unless otherwise posted.

Module One

Module Two

Module Three

Module Four

Module Five

Module Six

Module Seven

Registration

Registration for the 2022-23 Indigenous Cultural Competency Certificate (ICCC) is now closed. The ICCC is open to all of the Allard community: JD & Graduate students, staff and faculty. Staff and faculty may complete the certificate over two years.

If you have any questions about the content or format of the certificate, please email ILS Associate Director, Lee Schmidt at lschmidt@allard.ubc.ca or ils@allard.ubc.ca.

Fee

There is a $60 program fee due by September 9. Please email your completed registration form to Cherry Chiu to secure your seat, and bring in or mail your cheque or money order to the address listed on the form.

You are also able to bring in your form and registration in cash if you coordinate with Cherry Chiu in advance.