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Truth & Reconciliation
CBABC is committed to supporting BC’s legal community to work toward reconciliation through education and skills-based programming. Our annual Truth & Reconciliation Series dives deeper into how colonization shaped Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, and how lawyers can reframe their practice to move reconciliation forward.
Truth & Reconciliation Series: Working Together
This annual, three-part series aims to transform how lawyers use their Indigenous cultural training to develop strong, symbiotic relationships with Indigenous peoples. CBABC appreciates Clark Wilson’s sponsorship.
This session brought lawyers together to gain a practical understanding of how Indigenous laws, legal orders, and principles intersect with the everyday practice of law. Participants learned how to identify and engage with key resources and community networks to design a practice that recognizes and respects Indigenous laws and perspectives on key legal issues. Oct 13
Working with Indigenous Clients and Community in Practice | bit.ly/TRSeries2
Building trust with Indigenous clients and communities requires a step back to consider how our own attitudes, beliefs, and biases shape legal service delivery. Using practice-based scenarios, speakers will teach lawyers how to apply a trauma and culturally informed approach to practice to avoid retraumatizing and revictimizing Indigenous clients, witnesses, and communities. Oct 26
Building Business Relationships bit.ly/TRSeries3
Using case studies, presenters explore different governance and decision-making structures that apply to Bands, Band Councils, and Hereditary Chiefs. Participants will gain practice advice and strategies to build stronger business relationships with Indigenous communities.
CBABC’s On-Demand catalogue offers instant access to a host of valuable programming to expand your Indigenous cultural awareness in topics that range from Indigenous Rights & Title, an introduction to UNDRIP, creating a Reconciliation Response Plan, and what it means to have economic reconciliation. Gain industry-wide perspectives on what private and public sector lawyers need to move reconciliation forward!
