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Seattle Trainings

Seattle Workshops

YOUR WORK = OUR WORKSHOP

You work on special subjects with special Tribes in special places. Whether you feel like it or not, this work makes you a Tribal Relations Practitioner, using special skills, insights, and approaches not found in conventional professional settings. Your work deserves specialized, transformative attention in a safe, relaxed, reflective environment with other like-minded professionals.

Join professionals from different fields from all over the U.S. looking to ehnance their relationships with Tribes in a positive environment. You’ll build confidence and accelerate your vital work in this real-world, hands-on setting. Choose one or more workshops focused on the most critical Tribal Relations subjects facing practitioners just like you.

WORKSHOPS

These dynamic, interactive courses unfold in two distinct parts. Engaging morning lectures deliver transformative approaches to each subject, mixed with focused reflection, research, and individualized assessment. After lunch, afternoon sessions immerse you in real-world scenarios to apply and adapt proven approaches in your own way in either collaborative or solo role-play situations. Opportunities for professional cross-pollination, shared experience, and safe risk-free decision-making are often profound for participants. This series covers the following courses (see link to full descriptions below):

  • Authentic LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT—The 5R Approach (Oct. 21)

  • Tribe-Specific CULTURAL AWARENESS (Oct. 22)

  • TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT 101—Transforming Relationships (Oct. 23)

  • TRIBAL CONSULTATION—The Relational Approach Beyond Rules & Regs (Oct. 24)

  • NEGOTIATING WITH TRIBES—Sovereignty & The Interest-Based Approach (Nov. Oct. 25)

COSTS: $446 per course (Please email training@seventhsovereign.com for group/multi-course discounts)

COURSE TIMES: 9 AM - 5 PM (Local Time)

LEAD INSTRUCTOR: Robert Harper, JD, MA, MA (BIO).

FULL COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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REGISTER (HERE)

ISSAQUAH VENUE—The Watershed Science Center

Enjoy a relaxed, informal, collaborative atmosphere just 45 minutes from Seattle, off I-90: the gateway to the Cascade Mountains.

The Watershed Science Center is a facility at the forefront of Salmon population recovery efforts on the cutting edge of Fisheries management and state-Tribal collaboration in the United States. Check out the location, driving directions from SEATAC, and nearby hotels using linked maps below. Feel free to call us anytime with other questions about the venue.

  • WATERSHED SCIENCE CENTER: @ Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery—(FISH)

  • LOCATION: 125 W Sunset Way, Issaquah WA 98027 (MAP)

  • HOTELS: In/Near Issaquah (MAP)

  • DRIVING DIRECTIONS: From SEATAC Airport (MAP)

LIMITED SPACE

Our mission is to reach people who are trying to build better relationships with Tribes. If these workshops are helpful to your important work, please contact us quickly, as our August workshops filled-up unexpectedly and this venue is limited. If you have procurement-related time delays, please contact us in advance to reserve space: training@seventhsovereign.com