We can make this a better place together.
Indigenous-led and owned, and open to any nation or organization ready to learn these approaches to complex trauma. Four pathways, one purpose: restoring wholeness.
IFOTT Training
Level 1 Practitioner Certification and Level 2 Train the Trainers, 7 modules, supervised clinical practice, and certification delivered by one of the few certified IFOT coordinators in Canada.
IFOTT programLand-Based Detox
We help communities develop their own land-based detox programs and train their staff to facilitate them. The land is medicine, and it belongs to the community.
Program developmentCulture & Ceremony
Sundance ceremonies, winter fasting ceremonies, and cultural revitalization. The spiritual dimension of healing that no clinical setting alone can provide.
Cultural programsWorkshops
Custom workshops for communities, health authorities, and frontline teams, from intergenerational trauma awareness to community crisis response planning.
Workshop topicsWe go beneath the symptoms, to the felt sense.
An ancient, body-based knowing of self that colonization and intergenerational trauma buried beneath layers of pain. Healing begins where the original wound lives, not at the surface.
- The Four Directions framework, from the child in the East to the elder in the North
- The Trauma Awareness Wheel, locating where a person sits in relation to their felt sense
- Ceremony and land, the dimensions of healing no clinical setting alone provides
Two levels. One ripple of healing.
Delivered in-person in Timmins, ON by Jules Inishinapay-Tapas (I.C.C., I.F.O.T.T.), with 25+ years of practice and training experience.
Become an IFOTT practitioner
For counsellors, therapists, community workers, and helpers ready to bring IFOTT into one-on-one practice.
- Experiential therapies, complex trauma, and the six movements of Focusing
- Supervised clinical practice with Jules Inishinapay-Tapas
- Certification + eligibility for Level 2
Multiply the healing
For Level 1 graduates ready to develop and deliver their own IFOTT training to their community, organization, or workplace.
- All 7 modules through a trainer's lens + curriculum development
- Mentoring, live demonstrations, and supervised facilitation
- Two certifications, including Partnership Proficiency in Focusing
Because healing shouldn't have to travel far from home.
Niwakomakanak was created to break the cycle, training people to become certified healers, trainers, and leaders, so that trauma knowledge stays in the community, taught by those who understand the land, the history, and the people.
Let's bring healing back home.
Book a training, request intake for your community, or ask us anything. Charlene Gunner coordinates all registrations and inquiries.
Charlene Gunner, registration & inquiries
IFOTT@niwakomakanak.ca
Moose Factory, ON P0L 1W0