Adesuwa Ero

Training Description:

It is common for people to struggle and experience ambivalence when considering making a change or when others may be expecting them to make one. When helpers encounter this ambivalence with their clients, it is often interpreted as resistance, and they may feel unable to respond in an effective way.

Motivational interviewing can help because it is a communication style and way of being with clients that helps them find their internal motivation for solving problems. By exploring the framework and strategies of motivational interviewing, you will learn new ways to facilitate the change process in the people you support. You will gain practical strategies that start from a place of empathy and draw on the client’s personal motivation to create their own goals for change.

Schedule: Friday, June 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Format: In Person

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

• Explain the guiding philosophy and essential elements of motivational interviewing
• Describe and apply the four processes that structure a motivational interview
• Demonstrate and practice motivational interviewing skills
• Analyze the role of ambivalence in the change process
• Identify and elicit change talk

Training Focus:

• Motivational Interviewing Principles
• Understanding your Client’s Motivation
• Listening to your Client
• Foundational Skills: OARS (Open Questions, Affirming, Reflecting, Summarizing)
• Recognizing and Supporting Change Talk
• Four Processes of MI (Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning)
• Common Traps to Avoid
• Reflective Listening
• Roadblocks to Listening
• Approaching Ambivalence and Resistance
• When to use Motivational Interviewing
• Readiness to Change

Who Should Attend?

This is an introductory-intermediate level workshop for social service and health care professionals, social workers, school personnel, and anyone supporting people.

Trainer: Danielle Peebles

Trainer Bio:

Danielle is Ojibwe and a member of the Keeseekoowenin First Nation with family connections to Sagkeeng First Nation and Peguis First Nation. She currently lives in the North End of Winnipeg on Treaty One Territory with her husband and three children.

Danielle is a Registered Social Worker and holds a Master of Social Work based in Indigenous Knowledge degree from the University of Manitoba. She has over 15 years of experience working in the social services field and uses experiential therapy methods to provide care. As a therapist, Danielle works from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, harm reduction, trauma-informed, and person-centered approach to walking with people on their healing journey.

Danielle has engaged in consulting, facilitation, and training work with First Nation communities. Additionally, she is an instructor with Yellowquill University College, and walks with adults and youth who are impacted by mental health, addictions, trauma, and intergenerational trauma. She is dedicated to continuous learning, personal growth, and to sitting with and walking alongside people in ways that are respectful and supportive. As a fourth-generation residential school survivor, Danielle is committed to embracing and practicing her traditional way of life, while also being present for others in a good way.

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero:

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088

Workshop Description:

Our body and mind are closely connected, and even small, intentional changes can have a powerful effect on how we feel each day. Physical health plays a crucial role in supporting mental and emotional well-being, influencing energy levels, mood, focus, and overall resilience.

This session explores the ways habits like balanced nutrition, proper hydration, regular movement, and rest can positively impact both body and mind. Participants will discover practical, realistic strategies to incorporate these habits into daily life. This session aims to empower participants to take manageable steps that enhance energy, support emotional balance, and strengthen overall health, helping them feel more confident and resilient in everyday life.

Schedule: Monday, June 29, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Format: Virtual

Who Should Attend?

Anyone interested in learning about practical tools to support mental well-being

Trainer: Rahma Shahin, Youth Mental Health Promotion Coordinator, Canadian Mental Health Association, Manitoba and Winnipeg

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero:

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088

Title: Harm Reduction & Examining How Systems Create Harm

Training Description:

Rather than focus on individual behaviour, our approach to harm reduction focuses on how systems create and exacerbate harms to people who use drugs and other oppressed groups, often by design and with intent. This session will be an introduction to Harm Reduction; definition, principals and examples.
In this session, we will also look at how racism and colonialism are built into our institutions, our own roles in these systems, and how best to serve people today while working for systemic change. We know that it is not enough to be non-racist, but that we must be actively anti-racist every day.

Schedule: Tuesday, July 7, 2026, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Format: In Person

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training, participants will have

• Increased knowledge of Harm Reduction: definition, examples, principles
  Challenge the concept of ‘non-judgmental care’ & how values and beliefs contextualize our work
• Increased knowledge of risk-taking & why we engage in behaviours that we know could harm us
• Apply the CARES model (Person-Centered Care, Advocacy, Referrals, Education, Supply Distribution)
• Increased knowledge of how social structures, systems, policies, and practices make substance use harmful including prohibition and colonization
• Increased knowledge of how social structures impact our substance use decisions

Who Should Attend?

• Community members interested in improving their capacity to work with people impacted by substance use and misuse
• People who use drugs and other substances 
• Service providers who work with people who use drugs including: Physicians, EMS, Primary Health Care Staff, Public Health Staff, Acute Care Staff, Mental Health Workers, Home Care Staff, Community Outreach Workers, Addictions Workers, Social Workers, Corrections & Probations
• Government & community service workers, outside of health, that work with people who use drugs including: EIA workers, CFS workers, Town employees, Educators, etc.

Trainer: Shohan Illsley

Trainer Bio:

Shohan Illsley was raised in Northern Manitoba; The Pas, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and Churchill. Her grandparents are settlers from Iceland, Scotland, and England. She is married to her high school sweetheart and is the mother of four children and grandmother to one grandchild. She resides with her family in Winnipeg. Shohan and her husband are raising their children with Indigenous knowledge and ceremony. They work everyday to incorporate the resistance of colonization and residential school into their children’s identity. 

Shohan is the Executive Director of the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and has worked in harm reduction since 2000. Her work experience has included working with people who use drugs that are impacted by structural and colonial violence. Shohan works from the foundation that people are experts in their own lives.

Shohan has been facilitating harm reduction training since 2007 and the training has evolved to be delivered through an anti-racism and anti-oppression lens. Focusing on system harms, this training looks at more than individuals’ substance use and is called “Harm Reduction 3.0, Beyond the Needle!”

Shohan completed a Master’s of Science at the University of Manitoba. She was the recipient of a CIHR grant which funded a community based research project titled “What goes around: How peers use their social networks to share STBBI education and information.” Shohan has since been the recipient of 2 additional CIHR grants.

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero:

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088

Training Description:

Helpers regularly encounter stories and symptoms of trauma in their roles. There is growing evidence that the impact of directly supporting others through experiences of trauma goes beyond burnout or fatigue. The toll of witnessing intense human experiences and emotions can contribute to a negative transformation of a helper’s own sense of safety, and of being competent and purposeful. This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to examine their own experiences and become aware of the signs of both vicarious trauma and vicarious growth. Participants will have the opportunity to develop a personalized plan to repair negative effects as well as accelerate their resilience.

Schedule: Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Format: In Person

Training Focus:

• Signs of Vicarious Trauma
• Anchor Points that Keep You Solid and Steady
• Empathy – A Vicarious Experience
• Building Self-Awareness of the Impact of Working with Trauma
• External Factors Impacting the Effects of Trauma Work
• Individual Factors Impacting the Effects of Trauma Work
• Recognize the Sound and Feel of Your Alarm
• Strategies for Building Empathic Resilience
• Practicing Vicarious Resilience
• Building a Personalized Plan

Who Should Attend?

This is an introductory-intermediate level workshop for social service and health care professionals, counsellors, social workers, school personnel, and anyone working in the helping profession.

Trainer: Danielle Peebles

Trainer Bio:

Danielle is Ojibwe and a member of the Keeseekoowenin First Nation with family connections to Sagkeeng First Nation and Peguis First Nation. She currently lives in the North End of Winnipeg on Treaty One Territory with her husband and three children.

Danielle is a Registered Social Worker and holds a Master of Social Work based in Indigenous Knowledge degree from the University of Manitoba. She has over 15 years of experience working in the social services field and uses experiential therapy methods to provide care. As a therapist, Danielle works from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, harm reduction, trauma-informed, and person-centered approach to walking with people on their healing journey.

Danielle has engaged in consulting, facilitation, and training work with First Nation communities. Additionally, she is an instructor with Yellowquill University College, and walks with adults and youth who are impacted by mental health, addictions, trauma, and intergenerational trauma. She is dedicated to continuous learning, personal growth, and to sitting with and walking alongside people in ways that are respectful and supportive. As a fourth-generation residential school survivor, Danielle is committed to embracing and practicing her traditional way of life, while also being present for others in a good way.

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088

Topic: Case Note Writing: Ethical Practices from an Indigenous Lens

Training Description:

This customized full day workshop is designed to support social service employees in documenting case notes that can be seamlessly integrated into their work, guided by an Indigenous lens.

Schedule: Thursday July 30, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Format: In Person

Learning Objectives:

The session will focus on the following key areas:

• Employing a strengths-based approach
• Language to use in the documentation
• Writing in a factual, concise, and accurate manner
• Acknowledging the impacts of colonization, racism, and intergenerational trauma
• Promoting transparency and accountability in documentation
• Identifying and addressing unconscious bias, and embracing constructive feedback

Who Should Attend?

• Mental health professionals
• Social services and community‑based professionals
• First responders and emergency services
• Health care workers and support staff
• School and post‑secondary personnel
• Leaders, managers, and supervisors
• Human resources and people operations teams
• Employees in corporate or business settings
• Anyone working in people‑centred or support roles

Trainer: Danielle Peebles, MSW-IK, RSW

Trainer Bio:

Danielle is Ojibwe and a member of the Keeseekoowenin First Nation with family connections to Sagkeeng First Nation and Peguis First Nation. She currently lives in the North End of Winnipeg on Treaty One Territory with her husband and three children.

Danielle is a Registered Social Worker and holds a Master of Social Work based in Indigenous Knowledge degree from the University of Manitoba. She has over 15 years of experience working in the social services field and uses experiential therapy methods to provide care. As a therapist, Danielle works from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, harm reduction, trauma-informed, and person-centered approach to walking with people on their healing journey.

Danielle has engaged in consulting, facilitation, and training work with First Nation communities. Additionally, she is an instructor with Yellowquill University College, and walks with adults and youth who are impacted by mental health, addictions, trauma, and intergenerational trauma. She is dedicated to continuous learning, personal growth, and to sitting with and walking alongside people in ways that are respectful and supportive. As a fourth-generation residential school survivor, Danielle is committed to embracing and practicing her traditional way of life, while also being present for others in a good way.

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero:

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088