AUTHENTIC LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - Adapting The 5Rs® (May 15)
We all struggle to make Land Acknolwedgement more meaningful and inclusive. If you’re like many professionals, your efforts must navigate complex cultural and historical factors, and may be criticized by surprise—so we must often change our approach to align with evolving best-practices. GOOD NEWS: Multi-Tribal perspectives and real-world examples highlight an adaptable approach to transform this process. The rewards of more authentic, relationship-based Land Acknowledgement will be unique for everyone, but often go far beyond simply drafting a ‘correct’ statement.
“[Our agency] previously drafted language to revise and disseminate a formal land acknowledgement,” wrote a 2023 participant. “The course helped us re-engineer that initial process. We now see this as a relationship, and not just a statement. It’s led us in a different and better direction, one in which we hope to build a broader ongoing interaction with Tribes individually.”
Morning Lectures: We’ll revisit the challenging process of Land Acknowledgement by adapting the 5R® approach to your unique work. These hands-on efforts begin with a location significant to your work and relationships with Tribes. We’ll progress through a three-phase process harnessing free, open-source research tools enriched by a variety of multi-Tribal perspectives. Through interactive lecture and progressive research and reflection, we’ll expand our awareness of Tribal and Ancestral connections to place and space. Along the way, we’ll hear common criticisms from Tribal advocates as well as Indigenous views on evolving best practices to better understand what Land Acknowledgement should and should not look like. This will evolve our approach. It will help us identify and address special sensitivities in collaboration with Tribal partners. By day’s end, we’ll transform our draft Land Acknowledgements into a broader, organic platform of relationship-development unique to each person and Tribe.
Afternoon Scenarios: You’ll either join a collaborative team, or go solo (whichever you prefer) to work through real-world scenarios applying the frameworks and tools honed during the morning lectures and exercises. We’ll all gain enriching insights from discussion and reflection among other professionals through a series of exercises and dialogue. These scenarios encourage interactive engagement, collaborative learning, and a safe forum for questions about sensitive topics.
WHERE: Contact training@seventhsovereign.com WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM WHO: Instructor Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA
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CULTURAL AWARENESS - Tribe-Specific Insight, Understanding & Communication (May 16)
You may be overwhelmed at all there is to learn about a specific Tribe you’re working with. It’s a common challenge! Our efforts to better understand a Tribe’s history and identity should change how we learn, listen, and communicate. A simple, adaptive process will focus and transform your efforts, laying the foundations for more meaningful, authentic relationships with Tribes.
“I would highly recommend the class to any colleague interested in learning more about the nuances associated with tribal communities,” wrote a 2019 participant. “I deeply appreciated learning to think from a totally different perspective about these issues.”
Morning Lectures: Our challenge: Build a body of Tribally-sourced, systematically-researched understandings and insights to enrich our engagement with a specific Tribe—all in a day! These efforts begin by discovering a framework of understanding that is both universal, and adaptable to the distinctive histories, identities, and perspectives of specific Tribes. Through interactive lecture and a progressive series of easy, hands-on research, you’ll evolve your awareness of a specific Tribe (of your choice). You’ll apply and adapt a qualitative formula resulting in a completely different experience for everyone in the Course. We’ll then begin relational transformation, discussing how to harness your growing insights and understandings within your real-time relationships with Tribal Counterparts.
Afternoon Scenarios: You’ll either join a collaborative team, or go solo (whichever you prefer). You’ll apply tools and concepts from the morning exercises to real-world scenarios in an interdisciplinary, supportive, team-based learning environment. You’ll get to practice and take away step-by-step approaches for assessment and immersion applicable to any Native American setting. You’ll use reflection, dialogue, and discussion to develop and compare insights and approaches for real world application. Scenarios encourage interactive engagement, collaborative learning, and a safe forum for questions about sensitive topics.
WHERE: Contact training@seventhsovereign.com WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM WHO: Instructor Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA
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TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT 101 - Transforming Relationships with Tribes (May 17)
We all try to cultivate meaningful interactions with Tribes, often challenged by unique interpersonal and group dynamics. GREAT NEWS: Our efforts toward more authentic communication can rely on a proven, adaptable approach responsive to our unique personalities and cross-cultural circumstances. Over time, this transformative process enriches our interactions, resulting in trust and reciprocity—the halmarks of quality collaboration.
“Authenticity, strategies to build trust, and long-term relationships … If you work with tribes, this training is a must,” wrote a 2020 participant.
Morning Lectures: The most common Tribal Engagement challenges arise in interpersonal and organizational interactions. So, our efforts start there. BAD NEWS: There is no checklist or cookie-cutter approach to Tribal Engagement (although we will cover general do’s and dont’s). GREAT NEWS: There ARE universal principles to transform this process in a positive way. A variety of multi-Tribal perspectives and real-world examples point us to specific communication principles that change our interactions. You’ll discover great potential, or realize and build upon great things you’re already doing! We’ll adapt the qualitative AIET® formula to give you insights and tools to cultivate more authentic, mutually-enriching interactions with Tribes. You’ll then shift focus to actual relationships, and apply an accelerating approach to expand quality relationships with Tribal counterparts.
Afternoon Scenarios: You’ll either join a collaborative team, or go solo (whichever you prefer). You’ll get to apply these concepts to real-world scenarios in an interdisciplinary, supportive, team-based learning environment. Content emphasizes interactive scenarios and materials. You’ll develop your own unique, creative responses and approaches. There are no right or wrong approaches, and the choices your make are rich opportunities to identify best-practices. Along the way, a series of reflective discussions, dialogue, and informal fedback cultivates comparative insights and positive take-aways for real-world application. Scenarios encourage interactive engagement, collaborative learning, and a safe forum for questions about sensitive topics.
WHERE: Contact training@seventhsovereign.com WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM WHO: Instructor Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA
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TRIBAL CONSULTATION - The Relational Approach to Rules & Regs (May 18)
If you struggle to build quality relationships with Tribes while navigating complex consultation laws, you are not alone. BAD NEWS: Consultation rules naturally create barriers to our collaborative efforts, and this is unlikely to change. GOOD NEWS: Three proven communication strategies transform this dynamic. Easy changes help build quality partnerships with Tribes that go above and beyond mandated requirements.
“An excellent training opportunity that I would highly recommend,” wrote a 2022 participant. “It includes interactive lectures and scenario-based exercises that are highly relevant to local topics. A great opportunity to network with other professionals in this highly specialized field.”
Morning Lectures: Your biggest consultation challenge is getting beyond the law. That’s where we start. It’s so easy for our efforts to get bogged-down in mechanical details of rules and regulations that we lose sight of what matters most: Relationships with Tribes. You’ll observe how these rules shape and constrain the very relationships they require. GREAT NEWS: You’ll rise from the mire of legalese to place yourself within three broad categories of consultation, and an expanded awareness of the specific relational barriers they create. But we don’t stop there. These barriers—and Tribal responses to them, point us to easy, flexible, and adaptable solutions grounded in communication. We’ll adapt the qualitative INOIN® formula, using three essential dimensions of relational approaches to transform the consultation process. A variety of multi-Tribal perspectives, real-world examples, and live tools will give you invaluable insights and options to transform your relationships.
Afternoon Scenarios: You’ll either join a collaborative team, or go solo (whichever you prefer) to apply formulas and tools from the morning lectures. These emphasize the basic steps of an integrated tribal engagement and consultation planning process in a collaborative, real-world context. Content features issues from real-world scenarios. Along the way, a series of reflective discussions, dialogue, and informal fedback cultivates comparative insights and positive take-aways for real-world application. Scenarios encourage interactive engagement, collaborative learning, and a safe forum for questions about sensitive topics.
WHERE: Contact training@seventhsovereign.com WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM WHO: Instructor Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA
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NEGOTIATING WITH TRIBES: The Interest-Based Approach to Sovereignty (May 19)
Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or brand-new to negotiating with Tribes, we all struggle with factors arising from our own style, the circumstances of our work, and the cultural environment unique to each Tribe. Our efforts must evolve beyond a positional mindset, and redefine how we view the negotiation process—a big challenge! GREAT NEWS: We can transform the negotiation process using a proven, adaptable system. The results go far beyond achieving a ‘win,’ and toward multi-faceted, mutually-beneficial partnerships with Tribes.
“This was a rare opportunity for cross-disciplinary teams to train with — so much fun!” wrote a 2019 participant. “An incredible amount of experiential knowledge… and encouragement to experiment in scenarios.”
Morning Lectures: Your biggest negotiation challenges with Tribes arise from style and circumstance. So we begin our efforts acknowledging there is neither an ideal negotiation style, nor a standard set of circumstances we find negotiating with Tribes. This uncomfortable, but exciting reality frees us from conventional, competitive, linear approaches to positional bargaining. Instead, our efforts evolve by adapting the interest-based approach, emphasizing a multi-dimensional view of Tribal Sovereignty (sounds fancy, but it’s not!). We change how we see the negotiation process, and realize a world of tools to enhance our negotiation interactions through rapport, trust, and mutual understanding. We arrive at this realization through interactive lecture, reflective and research execises, and a variety of multi-Tribal perspectives and real-world examples (as well as some helpful do’s and don’ts). This fundamental shift unlocks expansive possibilities, creates unexpected options, and lays the groundwork for multi-faceted negotiated relationships. Whether you’re resolving conflict, formalizing partnerships, or somewhere in-between, you’ll find these tools transformative.
Afternoon Scenarios: You’ll either join a collaborative team, or go solo (whichever you prefer) to navigate real-world scenarios involving team-based assessment, planning, and negotiation mapping. Exercises apply concepts from the morning lectures to common, real-time circumstances. These add both introductory and advanced themes. You’ll get to practice and take-away innovative step-by-step approaches to interest-based negotiations with Tribes. You’ll also have materials and planning models useful for your own work.
WHERE: Contact training@seventhsovereign.com WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM WHO: Instructor Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA
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COST, DISCOUNTS & REGISTRATION
REGIONAL RATES
EARLY RATES THROUGH APRIL 21st
SINGLE COURSE: Early discount rate $395 (Standard rate = $425).
MULTI-COURSE (Early/Standard): 2 Courses $780/$840; 3 = $1160/$1250; 4 = $1530/$1650, 5 = $1795/$1845
TRIBAL RATES: 1 day $245; 2 days $395; 3 days $495; 4 days $595, all 5 $695.