Re-storying and Humanizing Research and Practice to Mobilize Reconciliation in Health Care
Wednesday, February 26th at 12 pm (CST/SK)
Join us for the next Inspired Breathing webinar in our Indigenous Health Series. Guests Dr. Sarah Oosman and Dënë Cheecham-Uhrich will talk about re-storying and humanizing research and practice to mobilize reconciliation in health care.
Presentation Objectives
- Provide narratives that highlight how the presenters worked collaboratively to intersect Indigenous and western science and knowledge (in the spirit of reconciliation in research);
- Demonstrate the importance of relationship and relational approaches, and what this could look like, to re-story who we are, individually and collectively, in the act of re-concili-action; and
- Emphasize the need to be present in the ‘process of’ reconciliation, where the process is the outcome.
About the Presenters
Dr. Sarah Oosman BSc, BScPT, MSc, PhD
Dr. Sarah Oosman is a physical therapist and an Associate Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science, University of Saskatchewan. She is deeply committed to Indigenous community driven action research that leads to the development and implementation of culture-based, meaningful health promoting interventions across the lifespan. Dr. Oosman brings a team science approach to her research focusing on community perspectives of healthy aging within, between, and across generations, connecting seniors to youth in ways that are strongly grounded in Indigenous worldview.
Dënë Cheecham-Uhrich
Dënë Cheecham-Uhrich is from Dënësułinë Treaty 8 Territory, Clearwater River Dënë Nation - a Dënë and Métis community in the Northern Saskatchewan boreal forest. Dënë has a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Studies with master level experience in advanced hydrology and planetary health. She works towards creating a new generation of decolonial earth leaders and re-establishing Indigenous communities as equal treaty, inherent and local partners in Turtle Island. Dënë has expertise in generating community driven protocol and is passionate in building relationships and partnership that allow Indigenous and interdisciplinary science to be more transformative and efficient in developing community lead planetary solutions by exploring a new way of navigating divers knowledge systems with Indigenous communities and researchers from all disciplines.
This webinar is proudly sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.