The outsider insider perspective- how a KBE changed me
I am a settler in Canada and having immigrated from India about a year ago, I felt a longing need not just to belong here, but also to be able…
Why a blanket exercise made me disappointed, uncomfortable and angry
Shining a harsh light on the impacts of colonization On a cloudy, fall afternoon at NAIT Main Campus, a circle of chairs are arranged around five patterned blankets laid flat…
Senpaqcin school uses KAIROS blanket exercise to explore systems of governance
The intermediate students and teachers at Senpaqcin school recent hosted the KAIROS blanket exercise as part of their inquiry into how systems of governance shape the lives of people. The…
Communities coming together for Reconciliation
Reflections on the Blanket Exercise On June 9th, 2018, Vancouver Monthly Meeting gathered with the Vancouver Unitarian community on unceded Musqueam and Coast Salish territory in a beautiful intergenerational Blanket…
Christians working on global issues can be a thankless job
Finding pathways to truth and reconciliation has become the latest focus for Christian activists in Canada. The nation’s churches and church members have been active on social justice issues over…
KAIROS Blanket Exercise a sad journey into Indigenous history
It was like gazing at a map of the world, but one turned upside-down. The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a two-hour journey through 400 years of tragedy, and it evokes…
Needs Improvement: Educators make progress on Indigenous curriculum, but more work to do
In the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to include more study on Indigenous issues in school curriculum, it appears educators across the country are taking the recommendations…
“We’re definitely not the best nation in the world,” school children learn about colonialism
“Getting to the truth was hard, but getting to reconciliation will be harder. It requires that the paternalistic and racist foundations of the residential school system be rejected as the…
At University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, leaders take part in KAIROS Blanket Exercise that teaches Indigenous history and trauma
Photo by Liam Mitchell: Department chairs and senior leaders in the Faculty of Medicine participate in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. Dr. Lisa Richardson, co-lead of Indigenous Medical Education in…
800 students learn to “combat racism and ignorance” through the KAIROS blanket exercise
The blankets represent land in Canada and the participants are the Indigenous people or European settlers Photo: Students were placed into groups and were asked to pick and sit on a…