When harmful gossip comes back to us, it can feel deeply personal and unsettling — but it can also become an invitation to pause, reflect, and strengthen our relationship with ourselves and others.

Rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, relational practice recognizes that healing, wellness, and growth happen through connection — with family, community, culture, land, and one another.

Join the UBC Learning Circle for an exciting dialogue with Denise on what has happened over the past 10 years and what new and exciting developments are unfolding. What does post-contact “Lateral Kindness” rooted and cultivated in each Indigenous Community look like?

The Gathering Our Medicine, Dr Denise Findlay team has had an extraordinarily busy and inspiring fall. We feel grateful and blessed for the opportunity to build meaningful relationships and share knowledge across Turtle Island. Throughout the year, the GOM team has reflected, nurtured, and strengthened our work together, and this

In this profound conversation, Denise and Charles delve into the sacred nature of existence, drawing deeply from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh worldview and the insights of philosopher Iain McGilchrist. The discussion centers on the idea of attunement with the sacred—not as something set apart, but as an existential condition woven into the

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Denise Findlay has earned her PhD in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU)!

Denise Findlay shares Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Indigenous philosophy and contemplative education as ethical pathways to healing and reconciliation in higher education through the process of becoming the imperfect friend in a world ethos of death by a thousand cuts. This is a response to the violence of colonialism perpetuated in academia.

Denise Findlay and others share their perspective about a program organized with Simon Fraser University, called ‘Moving Together in the Ways of the People‘ that has brought together staff, grad students, and indigenous perspectives into a unique blend of healing and relationship building. Listen as individuals talk about ways to

In this episode of IDEAS podcast, Denise Findlay, a PhD candidate in Education at SFU and SSHRC winner revisits her experiences of learning from distinct Indigenous communities, learning from elders and weaving the collective knowledge through dreaming as a methodology into her research.   She discusses the need to acknowledge

Join us as we explore the primacy of relationship and connection—with humans and the more-than-human world—as the essential source of medicine, healing, and growth. Denise shares insights from her academic and lived journey, highlighting how whole-person development and tapping into our vast human potential is born from the right relational