Inenimowin Circle

Inenimowin Circle: Small Group Training

• Inenimowin Circle training provides the needed skills and capacity to deal with personal abuse issues, and lead others through their own healing.
  
  
• Inenimowin is a Cree word for "the feelings we have in our heart".
  
  
• Inenimowin creates a safe place for people to talk about their experiences and feelings of abuse. During the 5-day workshop participants learn how to lead a support group for people who have suffered abuse or great disappointment. In effect, participants learn how to re-create an Inenimowin Circle in their own context.
  
  
• The hoped-for outcome is that people begin to emerge from the darkness of the past, that they come to a place in their healing to be able to say, "What others meant for evil, our Creator has used for good."
  
  
• Details: Participants experience the training material (manual included) as a participant and as a future leader of a small group. Large, then small group sessions are interspersed, first working through the concepts, then sharing experience. It is in the small groups that the learning is put into practice.
  
  
• The leaders bring a wealth of experience working among the First Peoples of North America and have all experienced healing within the circle and want to share it with others.

(Note: we find that leading a group with someone else who has taken the training works best, so we recommend at least two participants from each place.)