Kenkenem Consulting

Facilitator and Instructor KBE and VKBE
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION – KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator & National Instructor
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE)is an experiential teaching tool based on participatory popular education methodology and the major themes and findings of the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Participants step onto blankets representing the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. Facilitators read the script and assume the role of Narrator and European explorers and settlers.

The exercise builds awareness and understanding of our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by having participants literally walk through situations that include pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Elders and survivors share their journey in a sharing circle.