Sweetgrass Road
Experiential learning grounded in Indigenous worldview and education. Cultural teachings, harvesting activities, storytelling, and reflection support identity, confidence, responsibility, and a sense of purpose.
Mino Wahkotowin Indigenous Development Corporation
Our Work
Strengthen leadership.
Turn purpose into practice.
MWIDC brings Indigenous knowledge into the work of leading people, developing organizations, advancing reconciliation, and educating the next generation.
We shape engagements around your people, priorities, and context—from a focused learning experience to an ongoing leadership series or strategic organizational engagement.
Executive & organizational work
Executive Leadership & Organizational Development
Shared purpose. Clearer roles. Responsible decisions.
For executives, boards, and leadership teams examining how their organization leads, works together, and carries responsibility.
Indigenous teachings, facilitated dialogue, experiential learning, and reflection create space to explore the principles behind your decisions—and how those principles shape everyday organizational life.
What we can work on
- Shared purpose and guiding leadership principles
- Roles, relationships, and organizational structure
- Judgment, decision-making, and collective responsibility
- Applying Indigenous knowledge to leadership practice
Formats: Leadership series, board and executive sessions, facilitated retreats, and organizational development engagements.
Discuss Leadership DevelopmentStrategy & institutional action
Reconciliation Strategy & Institutional Action
Turn commitments into priorities, responsibilities, and a plan for action.
For institutions and organizations seeking a practical approach to reconciliation that connects leadership commitments with organizational decisions and everyday practice.
We work with your leadership to understand the context, identify priorities, and develop an approach suited to your organization’s responsibilities and relationships with Indigenous people and communities.
The scope can include organizational assessment, Indigenous engagement, strategy development, implementation planning, and measures of progress.
Staff & professional learning
Staff & Professional Development
Connect what people learn with how they work.
For educators, frontline professionals, managers, and teams in health, social services, business, education, and public institutions.
Sessions bring Indigenous histories, worldviews, and teachings into practical questions about relationships, professional judgment, responsibility, and the people your organization serves.
- Purpose, accountability, and teamwork
- Understanding Indigenous perspectives and lived experience
- Relationships and effective support for youth or adults
- Applying learning to professional roles and daily decisions
Completed staff learning includes sessions with Youville, The Link’s COACH team, and Manitoba Blue Cross’s business-development staff.
Formats: Workshops, full-day learning experiences, multi-session series, and land-based learning where it supports the engagement’s purpose.
Plan Professional Learning
Schools, youth & communities
Youth Leadership & Land-Based Education
Identity, practical skills, and responsibility through real experience.
Our programs bring together cultural teachings, stories, hands-on work, and guided reflection. Young people have opportunities to develop skills, contribute to shared work, and connect learning with their own lives.
For schools, youth-serving organizations, and community partners. Programs and seasonal learning experiences are shaped around the participants, setting, and goals.
The Warrior’s Path
Leadership and personal development for young men. Culture, mentorship, practical challenges, and reflection explore identity, discipline, emotional resilience, brotherhood, and cultural responsibility.
Way of the Land
Learning through work on the land. Harvesting, food preparation, outdoor skills, and shared tasks connect practical capability with teachings about care, relationships, and responsibility.
Wahkotowin Modules
Focused seasonal experiences shaped by partner needs. Modules can combine cultural teachings, harvesting, food preparation, practical skills, reflection, and connections to classroom learning.
Keynotes & speaking
Open a deeper conversation.
Indigenous knowledge brought into the questions your audience is facing.
Invite Demian Lawrenchuk, a Swampy Cree educator, founder, and leader, to speak with your organization, professional audience, or conference.
Stories, lived experience, and Indigenous perspectives invite people to examine how they lead, learn, and carry responsibility. The focus and format are shaped around your audience and event.
Formats: Keynotes, conference sessions, and facilitated conversations.
Discuss a Speaking EngagementWorking together
Built around your people and priorities.
1. Understand the context.
Clarify who the work is for, what you want to strengthen, and the organizational or community context.
2. Agree on the approach.
Develop the focus, format, scope, and timing around your priorities and the purpose of the engagement.
3. Deliver and reflect.
Carry out the agreed work, connect it with practice, and review learning or progress using feedback and measures suited to the engagement.
Explore a partnership
What do you want to strengthen?
Tell us about your organization or community, the people involved, and your priorities. We’ll explore the right approach for your leadership, strategy, professional learning, youth programming, or speaking needs.
Prefer email? info@minowahkotowin.ca