The program is ideal for:

• new and practicing facilitators teaching in adult education environment with particular focus on Indigenous facilitators working at the community-based level; and
• racialized and White facilitators, particularly those working alongside Indigenous facilitators in an interracial co-facilitation setting, who may be dealing with anti-Indigenous racism in their teaching/facilitation.

A wide variety of instructional strategies is used in the program. Instructional strategies may include interactive lectures, story/scenario-based discussions, small-group and large-group in-class activities, guided self-reflection, case studies, role playing, and micro-facilitation and feedback cycles.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

• Design and deliver lessons that guide learners through the experiential learning cycle, demonstrating effective lesson design, teaching, and facilitation skills.
• Identify and analyze the different ways learner resistance may manifest in response to discussions on colonial history and other Indigenous-related content.
• Develop self-awareness on what may trigger facilitators and learners in the face of anti-Indigenous racism and resistance.
• Use self-awareness as a tool for managing triggers in self and others when addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
• Demonstrate effective anti-racist facilitation, inter-racial facilitation, and co-facilitation skills in dealing with a range of facilitation scenarios.