Indigenous Training Collective

05/21/2026

I’d like to ask my connections to share my name / business with your close connections and contacts who are interested in getting Debwewin “My Truth” E-Learning for Indigenous Cultural Competency and Safety Training for their employees.

One of my biggest goals with this e-learning was to see exponential growth in getting employees trained in Indigenous cultural competency and safety so I offer the best possible pricing for big companies to train all of their employees.

With exponential growth in Indigenous cultural competency and safety we can create safer spaces and places for Indigenous Peoples throughout Canada and educate employees about the historic and ongoing inequities, inequalities, and injustices that still exist and persist today.

Add value to your company by training your employees with this extremely important education that has been sorely lacking in our mainstream education system. This e-learning provides an effective way to gain insights and understanding in the most efficient and timely way possible.

Let’s work together and make a meaningful social impact by training all employees within some of the biggest companies in Canada. I look forward to hearing from you all and having meaningful conversations about how we can train all staff to increase Indigenous cultural competency and safety through my e-learning.

Please reach out to Warren Lewis and the Indigenous Training Collective Inc. to book e-learnings, virtual, in-person, or hybrid trainings for your whole company. I look forward to hearing from you all soon!

05/15/2026

I would like to thank Derek Cook, the Canadian Poverty Institute, and Ambrose University for hosting me in the City of Calgary for an in-person Debwewin “My Truth” Indigenous Cultural Competency and Safety Training session as part of the Canadian Poverty Institute’s kNOw Poverty: The Poverty Studies Summer Institute 2026: Creating Hope Together.

It was awesome to be in-person again with a great group of participants and I will also give a special shout out to the online participants as well as this was a hybrid event with both in-person and online participants. I want to thank all participants for their support and contributions to these important conversations raising awareness about the issues that continue to impact Indigenous Peoples.

For more information about in-person, virtual, hybrid, or e-learning with Debwewin “My Truth” Indigenous Cultural Competency and Safety Training reach out to Warren Lewis and the Indigenous Training Collective Inc. to book! Together we can contribute to greater awareness, understanding, and safety, while supporting a more equal, equitable, and just world for Indigenous Peoples.

05/06/2026

This story made me sick to my stomach this morning. The hatred and cruelty displayed here is unfathomable. When are people actually going to understand the severity of what is happening to First Nations Peoples all across this country, when are people actually going to fight for us, when are people actually going to demand better for us, what is it ever going to take for people to truly understand the ongoing plight of First Nations Peoples.

The Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies needs to educate their associated member employees, foster parents must be educated and highly vetted, foster homes must be checked more frequently and diligently, and any misbehaviour by employees and/or foster parents must be punished swiftly and harshly to prevent further horrific incidents such as this one. The sixties scoop and ongoing millennium scoop cannot be allowed to continue harming and traumatizing Indigenous children this way.

Indigenous cultural competency and safety training is so important and necessary in Canadian society in which the truth has been deliberately withheld from the Canadian population and we see the repercussions of these deliberate actions in this case and in the multitude of other less visible cases throughout the country.

Indigenous cultural competency and safety training should be mandated throughout the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments across the county and with every organization that has any interactions with Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous cultural competency and safety training should also be in every primary, secondary, and post secondary school throughout the country. The systemic inequalities, inequities, injustices, and abuses have to stop.

Canadians deserve better, Indigenous Peoples deserve better, we cannot wait for the government to act; organizations could and should take it upon themselves to act swiftly and decisively and do what is right and educate their employees to create safer spaces and places for Indigenous Peoples.

My heart goes out to the brothers who went through unthinkable harms for years at the hands of these perpetrators. May the older brother finally have peace and rest in peace, may the younger brother hopefully find peace and good people to care for him, may the birth parents find some solace knowing the perpetrators are paying for what they have done and that there is at least some justice for the boys. May these sickening actions never happen to another innocent Indigenous child ever.

Ontario Justice Clayton Conlan spoke for only a few minutes to give his clear decisions: Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney are guilty of murder and other charges involving two brothers in their care.

04/16/2026

Thank you MineConnect Ontario for the wonderful member spotlight. I look forward to working with many mining companies and suppliers to enhance meaningful reconciliation, partnerships, and collaborations with First Nations Peoples and communities.

https://mineconnect.com/article/member-spotlight-advancing-the-mining-industry-through-indigenous-cultural-education/?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)&mc_cid=011de15528

04/16/2026

Sending thanks, gratitude and appreciation for all of the good things and all of the good people in my life.

Sending positive thoughts, healing energy, kindness and love to all those who need it today and everyday.

When we help and support each other we make the world a better place simply by showing that we care.

When we understand that we are all connected we work to do better at taking care of each other and the world.

04/14/2026

Thanks to Derek Cook and the Canadian Poverty Institute for inviting me to deliver the Debwewin “My Truth” Training In-Person.

Learning Opportunity: Debwewin “My Truth” Indigenous Cultural Competency and Safety Training. May 13th 9:00 – 4:00

Join Warren Lewis for an interactive workshop where he shares his lived experience growing up on a First Nations reserve and his knowledge of the relationship between Canada and First Nations Peoples.

Through this workshop you will learn:
> to connect the dots between the numerous injustices endured throughout the years and the current state of First Nations Peoples.
> how intergenerational trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and the various types of poverty all contribute to the social determinants of health for First Nations Peoples.
> practical ways that government and businesses can give First Nations Peoples a hand up in creating a better situation for the peoples and their communities.

Part of the kNOw Poverty Summer Institute. For more information and to register, visit https://lnkd.in/gWTJ4Uwc



https://www.povertyinstitute.ca/knowpoverty

An overview of the annual kNOw Poverty Summer Institute with details of program workshops and courses.

04/09/2026

Thank you Timmins Chamber for the support, I hope to see some of your members at the event and hopefully work with some of the chamber members! Thanks also to the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce for hosting me and the Indigenous Training Collective at this important event!

Building cultural competency begins with understanding. On April 21, join Warren Lewis of Indigenous Training Collective for a virtual session that explores the history of First Nations Peoples in Canada and introduces key principles of Indigenous cultural competency and safety. Free for Chamber members. Register here: https://sudburychamber.ca/event-registration/ =1121&cid=165&wid=11601

04/02/2026

Happy to be facilitating this session for Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce members! I’m hoping to work with many of the members in the coming years by increasing Indigenous Cultural Competency and Safety amongst employees in various businesses and industries.

Building cultural competency begins with understanding. On April 21, join Warren Lewis of Indigenous Training Collective for a virtual session that explores the history of First Nations Peoples in Canada and introduces key principles of Indigenous cultural competency and safety. Free for Chamber members. Register here: https://sudburychamber.ca/event-registration/ =1121&cid=165&wid=11601