Ktaqmukuk Women in Trades 2025 Cohort THREE - Week Three Training Schedule

Week Three - Day 1: May 12, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM: Checking In (PJILITA’Q)
- Action: Send a text to the group with a meme, photo, or image to say good morning and to let everyone know you are ready to start the program for today.
- Practice using the word "pjilita'q" in your messages. This is the morning CHECK IN.
Mi’kmaq Language Lesson
- Source: Mi’kmaq Online
- Action: Go online to Mi'kmaq Online.org and add any five words you wish into your dictionary in both Mi’kmaq and English.
- Note: Do NOT MEMORIZE these words. It is just about getting more familiar with the language.
9:45 AM: Zoom Meeting
- Topic: Mi’kmaq History & Cultural Learning with Dr. Elder Calvin White
- Action One: Please read up to and include Chapter Five of Elder White’s Book.
- Action Two: Pamela Bennett-McLeod is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Click to Join Zoom Meeting

Lunch

12:00 noon
- Action: Eat, drink, relax, and do some self-care.

Afternoon

1:00 PM: Workplace Incident Investigation
- Course Description: Teaches how to predict, prevent, and respond to workplace incidents, as recommended by Canadian Standards Association Z1005-17: Incident Investigation.
- Skills learned can identify and eliminate hazards leading to less serious incidents.
- Action One: Go to your email from Worksite Safety regarding your Workplace Incident Investigation course.
  1. Click the link in that email and use your assigned password and login details to start your course.
  2. If you cannot access the login page, try clicking here: Log In | Worksite Safety

End of Day

Before 3:30 PM: Daily Progress Report
- Email Pamela Bennett-McLeod at pambennettmcleod.flatbayband@gmail.com
- Action: Send a brief email only to Pam stating: What did you learn today that stands out the most?

Week Three - Day 2: May 13, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM: Checking In - Morning Meme/Chuckle
- Share a meme/image/GIF to our group text that shows the way you like to eat your eggs. Weird right?
Mi’kmaq Language Lesson
- Source: Mi’kmaq Online
- Actions:
  1. Go online to Mi'kmaq Online.org
  2. Find any ten words you wish to add to your dictionary. Add them in both Mi’kmaq and English.
  3. Click on this link to read the article about young people trying to revitalize the Mi’Kmaw language 'Kwe' Ni'n Teluisi': Learning Mi'kmaq online from the Native Council of P.E.I. | CBC News
  4. Click on the video in the centre of the article to hear the women say words in Mi’Kmaw.
  5. Click the link below to hear a young Mi’kmaw woman from PEI share a story through song: Mi’kmaw singer gets golden buzzer on Canada’s Got Talent - APTN News
10:30 AM – Noon: Zoom Meeting
- With Laura White- Knowledge Keeper and All Participants
- Topic: Cultural Teaching & Discussion
- Action: Click to Join Zoom with Knowledge Keeper- Laura White

Lunch

12:00 noon
- Action: Eat, drink, relax, and do some self-care.

Afternoon

1:00 PM: Mi’kmaq History Lesson
- Video: The Mi'kmaq Community Reclaiming Land and Identity
  - The Mi'kmaq community of Miawpukek was forced away from the coasts where it once resided and suffered the oppression and erasure of its rites and language for centuries. Today, led by the Chief Misel Joe, the Mi'kmaq fights to preserve its identity.
- Action One: Click on the blue word to watch the video, The Mi'kmaq community reclaiming land and identity
  - Answer the following questions:
    1. What are land protectors?
    2. Do we as Mi’kmaw people have the responsibility to protect the land?
    3. How do we take small steps to protect our natural environment and Mother Earth?
- Listen to the Mi’kmaw Song
  - Action One:
    1. Click to listen to this Mi’kmaw song – it is one of my favourites and it is very powerful to hear it sung and drummed.
    2. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and deeply
  - Our Awakening Or Our Gathering Song connects me to my People, our People: Our Awakening/Gathering Song (Sing-Along)
  - Action Two: Answer the following questions:
    1. Do you have a favourite Mi’kmaw song or story?
    2. If yes, what is the song or what is the story?

Week Three - Day 3: May 14, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM: Check In Activity - How Do You Picture Nature?
- Share a meme or GIF or image with the texting group that captures nature. It can be one of your own photos.
Language Lesson
- Select any five (5) words in English that you would like to know in Mi’kmaw.
- Search up those five (5) words and add them to your personal English- Mi’kmaw dictionary.
- Listen to each word you choose and then practice saying it.
- DO NOT MEMORIZE these words. It is just about getting more familiar with the language.
- Listen to these songs and then write a line or two about how each one of these songs makes you feel:
  - Ko’jua https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xnpvxx0xyMU&si=fkA--aTcqqaiY_HV
  - Ancient Gathering Song of the Mi’Kmaw https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpX3a_LH90&si=WmlsbsGjgnY6LGMh
  - Forgiveness https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tru5xu4sTnA&si=3dHXOM18STSu07UV
  - Mi’Kmaw Honour Song (on flute) Mi'kmaq Honour Song - YouTube Music
10:00 – 11:30 AM: Zoom Meeting
- With Leah Morris and All Participants
- Discussion with Peer Support Facilitator
  - Follow Up Discussion Question from Last Week’s Session: What do safety and visibility mean to you as you move through training and into the workplace?
- Action: Click to Join Zoom

Lunch

12:00 noon
- Action: Eat, drink, relax, and do some self-care.

Afternoon

1:00 PM: Active Listening Skills
- Active Listening is a huge part of being a better communicator.
  - Action One: Complete the Are You a Good Listener Quiz by clicking the link: How Good Are Your Listening Skills? - Understanding Someone's Entire Message (mindtools.com)
  - Action Two: Watch the following videos:
    - How to be a Good Listener
    - 12 Ways to Improve Communication Skills Instantly
    - The Big Bang Theory Active Listening
    - The Art of Effective Communication
    - How to Become a Better Communicator
    - Active Listening Example
The Story Behind the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation | APTN News
- Trigger Warning: Graphic Abuse, Violence, Racism
- Action One: Watch the following video to learn about why Canada has a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: The Story Behind the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Video: Mi’kmaw Healing Song
- Action One: Listen to the Mi’kmaw Healing Song as performed by the Wind Spirit Drum group. Mi'kmaw Healing Song

Week Three - Day 4: May 15, 2025

Morning

9:45 AM: Checking In - Morning Meme/Chuckle
- Share a meme/image/GIFF to our group email that shows something you would like to share.
9:45 AM - NOON: Zoom Meeting
- With Dr S. MacNeil and All Participants
- Action: Click to Join Zoom

Lunch

12:00 noon
- Action: Eat, drink, relax, and do some self-care.

Afternoon

1:00 PM: Colonization of the Mi’kmaw People
- TRIGGER WARNING: This session is about the colonization of the Mi’kmaw people. Please note the content may be emotionally challenging.
- Action One:
  1. Read the article: Mi'kmaw Culture - Legends and Stories (muiniskw.org)
  2. Do you think it is important to preserve the Mi’kmaw culture? Why or why not?
  3. Do you think writing the stories of our people in books helps to ensure these stories are passed on to future generations?
  4. Find an example of a book written to ensure that the culture, traditions, history, or teachings of our people are documented so that others may learn through reading.
    - It can be a book written for children or adults.
  - Please write down the following:
    - a. Author
    - b. Name of book
    - c. Publisher
    - d. Where can it be purchased
    - e. Cost (approximately)
Smudging Teaching & Mi’kmaw Healing Song
- Let’s try to center ourselves after focusing on depression for most of the day. It has been a heavy topic, and we need to bring ourselves back to a more positive state of being.
- We will do a teaching on smudging (virtually) and then listen to a healing song.
- Action One: Please click on the links below and learn from Elders about why we smudge.
  - Why Do You Smudge?
  - Traditional Mi’kmaw Smudging
  - How to Smudge- Other Indigenous Peoples
- Action Two: Listen to the Mi’kmaw Healing Song as performed by the Wind Spirit Drum group. Mi'kmaw Healing Song

Week Three - Day 5: May 16, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM: What Was One of Your Hobbies When You Were a Teenager?
- In the group text/chat group, please share the hobby that you loved to do when you were a teen.
Lock Out and Tag Out (Lockout/Tagout or LOTO)
- This online Lock Out and Tag Out (Lockout/Tagout or LOTO) Course will guide you through all aspects of locking and tagging out machinery and energized equipment of different types.
- The course covers a variety of concepts including the basic procedures for lock out and tag out, describing worker, supervisor, and employer responsibilities, the sources and effects of hazardous energies, and training program requirements for LOTO.
- Action One: Go to your email from Worksite Safety regarding your Lock Out and Tag Out (Lockout/Tagout or LOTO) course.
  1. Click the link in that email and use your assigned password and login details to start your course.
  2. If you cannot access the login page, try clicking here: Log In | Worksite Safety

End of Day

Please Send Before 12:00 PM: Weekly Report
- Email Pamela Bennett-McLeod at pambennettmcleod.flatbayband@gmail.com
  - Action One: Weekly Report - Send your weekly report to Pam before 12:00 PM.
  - Action Two:
    1. When you send your weekly report write the following in your email each week please: “Hello, my name is… (add your name) in both English and Mi’kmaw.
    2. HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND!