She:kon (Welcome in the Mohawk Language)

Please use this website as a source of information about workshops, articles and books offered by Four Winds Wellness and Jann Derrick.

Onen Kiwahi (May you Go Well)

Jann has been in practice as a Registered Family Therapist since 1978.

She is passionate about children and their return to the center of our families and communities. Jann is of Mohawk, Irish and English ancestry and specializes in working with families, parents and communities in order that children can once again be safe, know their identity and where they belong.  She is skilled in working with Indigenous Historical Trauma, Residential School trauma, and its intergenerational effects in families and communities.

Jann closed the clinical part of her practice in March 2013 in order to devote her time to mentoring and teaching frontline workers and professionals, supporting service delivery to Indigenous communities, and writing.

Her PhD research focused on Indigenous families and is freely available on the WorldShare academic network ~  KAHWÀ:TSIRE:  INDIGENOUS FAMILIES IN A FAMILY THERAPY PRACTICE WITH THE INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEW AS THE FOUNDATION.

Jann did pioneering therapy work with residential school survivors in Lytton, B.C. in the 1980′s. She has worked at Round Lake Treatment Centre as a clinical supervisor, a trainer of Drug and Alcohol counselors, and as therapist in the Centre’s innovative Trauma Recovery Program for Native Trauma. She facilitated a National Aboriginal Focus Group that created a Code of Ethics for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.

As a Registered Family Therapist, Jann is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in both the Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association.

She has presented workshops and trainings throughout Canada and internationally in the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Jann is the mother of three children and the Dotah (grandmother) of nine.

This is an informational 1 or 2 day workshop designed for professionals, employers, agency employees, community members who want to know more about the inter-generational impacts from the residential school experience.  This workshop applies a trauma-informed lens combined with attachment and grief information to show the four traumatized generations created by the forced removal of children from their families.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has named the schools as cultural genocide.

The workshop is both experiential and didactic, and full of historical information.  It offers tools for shifting relationships in the workplace and community to one of mutual reconciliation.

EMDR BASIC TRAINING    KAMLOOPS BC…..

THE DATES HAVE CHANGED…THE NEW DATES ARE:

SESSION ONE:  NOVEMBER 2, 3,4  2018

SESSION TWO:  FEBRUARY 1,2,3  2019

TRAINER IS DR. MARSHALL WILENSKY

CLICK HERE FOR TRAINING INFORMATION: Marshall Wilensky Training (4)

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM: EMDR REGISTRATION FORM 3

For information contact Jann Derrick  PhD  fourwinds@telus.net or 250 374 7709

NEXT WORKSHOP:   SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2018                                           9 AM – 3 PM

#112  1861 WELCH STREET   NORTH VANCOUVER BC  V7P 1B7

This one day workshop is for those who meet the protocols around the exercise and who wish to strengthen their work with Indigenous people. It is a spiritually centered day that includes the story of how the exercise was created, tools for facilitating the exercise, suggestions for creatively using it, and insightful information that can be included when delivering it.  The day closes in ceremony.

The Circle – Box exercise is used by healing facilitators, educators, social workers and lawyers in colonized countries around the world.

 This is the exercise that inspired Kathi Camilleri’s ‘The Village’. 

Protocols:  

• personal knowledge of the two worldviews:  Indigenous and Euro-Canadian/mainstream

• willing to practice Indigenous protocol in naming the teacher and preserving its spiritual centre

• to be shared orally and never written down

• strong facilitation skills which include providing group safety, being comfortable and attuned with emotional responses, and having a knowledge of self regulation tools. 

Cost; $160.00

To Register click here  –REGISTRATION-FORM- Vancouver          REGISTRATION-FORM- Vanc 11.24.18– 

For further information contact Jann at fourwinds@telus.net or call 250 374 7709

Indigenous families come from a spiritual tradition of relationship, kindness, nurturance and accountability.  Over the years of colonization and genocide, trauma and loss were introduced and the roles of children and adults were reversed.  This 3 day workshop examines the traditional family, the traumatized family, and now the healing family. Trauma impacts on the brain are taught.  It offers essential information for any professional person working with Indigenous families, including the practice of cultural safety.  It is presented in both experiential and didactic format.

In the Indigenous circle there are five key values:  Kindness, Gentleness, Honesty, Accountability and Humour.  Together these values create Respect. One of the Haudensaunee teachings is that we are here on earth to have fun!

An Elder, Barney Williams from Nuu-chah-nulth has asked that we focus ourselves now on being Kind to one another.

This is a one day workshop for staff and management that provides fun, laughter, insight, and tools for turning relationships to kindness and overall respect.