Restoring The Balance

Restoring the Balance is a trauma-informed program founded on traditional Indigenous values, teachings, and ways of healing to provide holistic support.

To request more information, contact:

Jolene Wilson (she/her), Knowledge Keeper
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 204-774-8975 ext. 221

Access to Medicine & Medicine Picking

To help support our community with their spiritual needs, we try to have on hand the four sacred medicines:

- Tobacco
- Sage
- Cedar
- Sweet Grass

Teachings & medicine picking trips happen throughout spring, summer & fall.

Four women smiling at the camera sitting on the ground holding sage they just picked.

Beading

*Currently on hold*

Drop-in program open to all women and gender-diverse people

Ceremonies

Full Moon Ceremony

Women and gender-diverse people’s Ceremony
Monthly, with Melvin Moar as Fire Keeper
If you’re able to, bring your own skirt & food to share at the feast
Yellow cloth & tobacco will be provided for your prayers. If you have, please bring your own.

Seasonal Ceremonies
Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, Winter Solstice

These seasonal Ceremonies are a way of obtaining and maintaining harmony with the natural world. And typically involve pipe, prayer and feast. For humans to live in health, happiness, and harmony, they must be in tune with the continually changing world around them.

Check the calendar of events to find out when the next Ceremony will be.
We also plan trips to the sweat lodge and will occasionally help with vigils and letting go.

Elder and Knowledge Keeper supports

While we are not counsellors, we do have great listening ears and are always honoured to pray with our community. And if we can’t help, we can certainly find you someone that can.

Family Violence Prevention

Through Red Road to Healing and Men’s Circle we hope to help families heal from family violence and prevent violence before it happens.

These programs have been developed to educate folks to identify and deal with violent behaviours in a better and safe way. Through recognizing the signs of abuse, stress and anger management, how to make a safety plan for yourself and your loved ones, how to recognize what your feeling and communicate in a good way. As well as what and how to get safe if you find yourself in a bad situation. These things are all done with an Indigenous lens through ceremony and teachings.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People

Restoring the Balance stands with and supports the community women, gender-diverse people and MMIWG2S+ families. We do our best to be at all events to show support as well as offer education and knowledge sharing to help keep each other safe and raise awareness. We are committed to implementing the Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into MMIWG. You can read our statement on the National Inquiry for more information.

Truth & Reconciliation

We do our best to hold ourselves and our organization accountable to our TRC commitments and make sure that the community we work with is knowledgeable and practices to the best of their ability to implement the TRC is a good way. Read our latest report back on our TRC commitments.