About The Workshop

This workshop shows you how to approach your work through Two-Eyed Seeing: looking at challenges, decisions, and systems using both Indigenous knowledge and Western ways of knowing at the same time.

This is not about replacing your methods or adding entirely new frameworks. It’s about adjusting how you approach your work so your decisions, processes, and outcomes are more grounded, ethical, and effective in real‑world contexts.

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What Two-Eyed Seeing Means

Indigenous knowledge and Western approaches each offer valuable ways to understand systems, solve problems, and make decisions. Two-Eyed Seeing uses both—together—so you see more, not less.

In professional practice, that might mean:

• Considering systems impacts alongside technical or operational requirements

• Weighing efficiency and outcomes alongside relationships to people and place

• Balancing short-term goals with long-term sustainability and responsibility

Professionals who work with both perspectives make better-informed, more resilient decisions.

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Who Should Attend

This workshop is for professionals in any field, including (but not limited to):

• Trades, construction, and technical fields

• Science, research, and applied innovation

• Business, management, and entrepreneurship

• Social services, and community work

• Policy, governance, and organizational leadership

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Format

Hour 1: Understand the Two-Eyed Seeing framework and why it matters in real-world work

Hour 2: Map Two-Eyed Seeing onto something you already do—identify gaps, tensions, and opportunities

Hour 3: Design one small, usable change to a process, decision, or practice. Get feedback from peers and refine it

Hour 4: Build your action plan, Identify supports and resources, and Connect with others integrating Indigenous perspectives into their work

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What You Walk Out With

• A practical adjustment ready to use
• A clear understanding of Two-Eyed Seeing in action
• Connections to others doing similar work
• A realistic plan for next steps (if you want them)

 

Deliverables:

• A clear framework for integrating Indigenous perspectives into workforce program design and on-the-ground delivery in Canadian projects
• Practical tools and templates to support community-led engagement, training delivery, and long-term workforce development
• A worked example or action plan demonstrating how to apply these approaches to an active or planned project, including defined next steps and roles

4 hours. One practical change.

You’ll leave with a practical change you can apply immediately - tested, refined with peers, and built from your existing work.