What We offer?

Cultural Brokers Workshops & Training are locally rooted learning spaces that bring together:

Cultural Brokers
Settlement service providers
Community partners

The workshops support shared learning, collaboration, and innovation at the local and regional level. Each session is shaped by the specific needs, priorities, and context of participating organizations and communities.

The Curriculum: Building Bridges

At the core of the workshops is Building Bridges, a curriculum developed collaboratively by Cultural Brokers across Canada.

The curriculum:

Provides a clear, shared understanding of Cultural Brokering
Introduces key concepts and shared language
Offers practical tools and guiding principles
Supports reflection and real-world application within organizations

Introduces cultural brokering as a relational, transformative practice rooted in empathy and equity, while exploring its historical roots and relevance in Canada’s multicultural and Indigenous context.
Explores how cultural differences create misunderstandings and barriers, offering tools like the iceberg model and case studies to help brokers bridge cultural gaps.
Examines how systemic inequities affect marginalized communities and how cultural brokers can advocate for change through critical analysis and relational practice.
Introduces a layered model to understand clients’ lived experiences, encouraging holistic assessment and contextual understanding in brokering work.
Defines the multifaceted role of cultural brokers, emphasizing their work with families and systems while including client and systems perspectives and reflections on practice.

Connects global colonial history to current inequities and migration, framing cultural brokering as a response to historical harm and a path toward healing.
Offers foundational learning about Indigenous cultures, emphasizing relational values, teachings like the Seven Sacred Laws, and the importance of land and language.
Details Canada’s colonial policies and their impacts on Indigenous communities, highlighting the importance of reconciliation and understanding historical trauma.
Synthesizes previous chapters to envision cultural brokering as a practice of reconciliation and community-building, encouraging intercultural dialogue and shared identity.

How It’s Delivered

Online

In-Person

Hybrid

Who This Is For

These workshops are designed for:

Employers and organizations in the settlement sector
Managers, supervisors, and team leads supporting Cultural Brokers
Organizations seeking to strengthen inclusive and culturally responsive practices