Caretaking Earthside

Registration Information

Name

First

Last

Job title

Email

Confirm Email

Phone

Emergency Contact

First

Last

Relationship

Emergency Contact Phone

Event Information

This is an Indigenous-specific conference for Indigenous birth workers. Non-Indigenous birth workers may attend with an invitation from an Indigenous community or organization.

I am Indigenous
I am not Indigenous

Who invited you to this event?

Please share the name of the Indigenous community or organization that invited you to attend.

Your experience.

I am a birth worker
I am not a birth worker

Are you registered with the DAFGP as doula/birthworker?

Yes
No

Do you plan to request travel reimbursement?

Yes
No

Use this form to submit a travel estimate. Include your total mileage. Include transportation costs (e.g., plane or ferry; submit receipts with final travel claim).

Please note: we cannot cover the costs of meals or rental cars.

Please select the dates you plan to attend.

Monday, October 21st
Tuesday, October 22nd

Please let us know who, other than yourself, will be staying with you including children and youth (and how many).

Please include pets you may be travelling with.

Are you bringing a pet companion?

Yes
No

If yes, please arrange with the hotel ahead of time. Additional pet fees will need to be covered by the owner of the pet.

Please list any allergies or dietary restrictions.

Do you have accessibility needs that you would like to share with us?

Please list your accessibility needs and our Safety and Accessibility Coordinator will follow up with you.

If you represent an organization, please let us know which one.

What health region will you be travelling from?

Are you willing to share a room with another birth worker?

Do you have any accessibility requirements regarding you accommodations?

What is your legal name on your ID (if different from the name above).

We need to use the name on your ID to book a room for you.

Please share what knowledge you would like to learn at this conference.

Caretaking Earthside: Community Agreements

Arrive Gently
We acknowledge and uphold the protocols of our host, the Sts'ailes, and thank them for allowing us to gather together in a good way. Together, we commit to nourishing the space we collectively create. We recognize that each of us arrives at our roles and responsibilities as birth workers and community members by our own unique path, histories, and teachings. We celebrate one another for both our individual and shared experiences and perspectives. We honour the land and waters, our ancestors, Elders, those yet to come, and each other.

Honour Ourselves, Honour Each Other
We respect both our individual and collective physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness while sharing space together. We take breaks when we need to, check in with ourselves and each other, and share the labour of creating a safe and welcoming environment. We embrace harm reduction and do not tolerate violence.

We Celebrate Our Kin
We welcome and honour all members of our community, across various identities such as, but not limited to, our Two spirit/Queer/Trans kin; Elders, parents, pregnant folks, caregivers and children; disabled, chronically ill, mentally ill, and neurodivergent folks; our Afro-Indigenous, Black Native, POC-mixed, and darkskinned kin; our Nothern, rural, and remote kin; folks who use substances; etc. We acknowledge that we all have different needs regarding safety and accessibility and work collectively to fulfill those needs with integrity, care, and respect.

Listen to Understand
We listen to one another to understand and connect, not respond. We practice active, full body listening. We hold one another’s words with care.

Uphold Consent, Self Determination, and Autonomy while Sharing Knowledge
We explicitly protect each other, ourselves, and our communities from knowledge extraction. We speak from experience when we share our stories, teachings, and knowledge. When sharing stories, teachings, and knowledge that did not originate with us, we only do so with the explicit consent of the original knowledge keeper/s, and/or community/ies, and name the original keepers and lineage of the story, teaching, and/or knowledge. We uphold each other’s stories, teachings and knowledge by only sharing them outside of the space with explicit consent to do so. We do this in order to care for the health and integrity of each other, our communities, and future generations.

Safety vs. Discomfort and Community Process Surrounding Harm
We collectively commit to creating a safe space for folks to connect, nourish both themselves and one another, as we lean into giving and receiving care. We recognize that conflict is not always harmful, and thus invite folks to reflect on what is safety and what is discomfort. In the event of harm being done, both our gathering’s advisory circle’s Elders and our “safety and accessibility coordinator” would be happy to support you.

Community Agreements

I have read and understood the Caretaking Earthside: Community Agreements form and will follow this agreement for the duration of the conference.

Caretaking Earthside