Truth, Reconciliation & Leadership: Building Culturally Responsive Organizations

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
This course takes a deeper dive into the kind of leadership authentic reconciliation work truly demands, broadening concepts of responsibility, relationships, and the real, ongoing work of structural systems change. Designed for emerging and experienced leaders who have already begun their journey with Truth and Reconciliation, this program offers the next step: moving from awareness into action.
Participants will explore how to embed reconciliation into the very architecture of their institutions, governance models, policies, and organizational culture using two-eyed seeing. Grounded in "Seven Wise Practices and Right Relations", and guided by Indigenous knowledge holders, this immersive experience offers a space to reflect, reimagine, and rebuild.
Participants will be offered practical tools to support long-term transformation rooted in humility, accountability, and institutional courage. This is a space for brave questions, honest conversations, and collective learning. Sessions will be held in community, on the land, and in dialogue with those who have been leading this work for generations.
Program highlights
Deepen Leadership Capacity for Reconciliation
Apply Two-Eyed Seeing in Institutional Change
Embed Reconciliation into Structural Systems
Engage in land-based and community learning
Strategies for long term transformation
Foster brave conversations and collective learning
Insights from the field: Meet CEOs
The program is designed to cater to arts and culture professionals working in organizations of any size and across any art form (visual arts, galleries, museums, theatre, dance, opera, film, music and literature).