The Indigenous Education Network is hosting a presentation by Dr. Cindy Baskin on Aboriginal world views in the helping professions. The presentation will take place on Monday, March 26 from 10am to 12pm in room 5260 at 252 Bloor St. W. in Toronto. Dr. Baskin will discuss how Aboriginal ways of knowing can inform helping professionals by challenging Eurocentric views and exploring principles like interconnectedness, wholeness, and reciprocity.

1. The Indigenous Education Network Presents:
Aboriginal World Views in the Helping Professions
Who: Dr. Cindy Baskin, Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University
Where: 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON, OISE Room 5260
When: Monday, March 26 from 10: a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Abstract: This presentation will centre Aboriginal world views and ways of
knowing and seeing the world as they apply to those who do the work of
"helping." Dominant Eurocentric world views in the helping professions and
relationships of colonization will be challenged while principles such as
interconnectedness, wholeness and reciprocity will be explored.
Bio: Cyndy Baskin, PhD, is of Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent, originally from NB,
who has been living in Toronto for many years. Her clan is the fish and her
spirit name translates as something like “The Woman Who Passes On The
Teachings.” She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Social
Work at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Her teaching and research
interests involve working with Aboriginal communities - especially on how
Aboriginal world views can inform social work education, spirituality in social
work practice, anti-racist inclusive schooling, post-colonial theories and
practices, healing justice and decolonizing research methodologies. She is also
a prolific writer with her latest book, entitled Strong helpers’ teachings: The
value of Indigenous knowledges in the helping professions, published in the
fall of 2011. Cyndy is the Chair of Ryerson University’s Aboriginal Education
Council, the Chair of Ryerson University’s School of Social Work Aboriginal
Advisory Committee and the Chair of the Toronto District School Board’s
Aboriginal Community Education Council.
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