Myrna McCallum's Healing Imperative
Transformative Education

Our Work

Everything we offer is grounded in one conviction: healing is not optional — it is the only way forward.

Through Myrna McCallum’s Healing Imperative, we deliver programs rooted in humanity-centered practice — equipping leaders, legal actors, healthcare professionals, educators, frontline workers, advocates, and Indigenous communities to make decisions and take action that reflect a deep understanding of trauma, power, colonial harm, racial injustice, and institutional violence.

Whether you are here for personal transformation, professional development, or institutional change, every program is designed to help you respond with greater humanity, humility, boundaries, accountability, repair, and care.

The work always begins with us.

October 7-9, 2026

Whistler, BC

LoveBack™ Retreat

Indigenous Women’s Leadership, Healing & Emotional Intelligence

A 2.5‑day professional development gathering created for Indigenous women who serve as leaders and advocates. Rooted in Indigenous and Polynesian worldviews, this experience blends professional development, trauma‑responsive practices, and intergenerational healing—closing with an optional morning of rest and renewal at Scandinave Spa Whistler on Day 3.

This work is for you if:

  • You are an Indigenous woman in leadership, governance, advocacy, health, or community service
  • You navigate the complex, emotionally demanding realities of leadership and community care
  • You seek to lead from a place of wholeness, compassion, and cultural strength
  • You need time to step back, rest, and reconnect

What Myrna Actually Does

Alongside Resident Auntie Charmaine Parenteau and Polynesian Healer Moana Paulus, Myrna helps you:

  • Address patterns of shame and burnout
  • Regulate your nervous system safely
  • Rebuild trust in yourself and your community
  • Strengthen practices in love and leadership
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Spaces are strictly limited.

Coming Fall 2026

Indigenous Liberation and Racial Justice

An immersive, transformative experience for those ready to confront colonial harm and advance real justice. This program is a space for honest reflection, courageous learning, and collective action.

This work is for you if:

  • You are an Indigenous professional, person of colour, or committed ally
  • You are ready to courageously confront colonial harm and racism
  • You want to understand your own role in systemic dynamics
  • You are seeking actionable skills to drive real accountability

What Myrna Actually Does

Grounded in Indigenous worldviews, Myrna creates a space to:

  • Analyze how racism and colonial systems operate daily
  • Develop practical skills for driving systemic change
  • Facilitate honest reflection without performative allyship
  • Guide you toward realizing Indigenous rights and racial equity
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For Leaders & Professionals

Transform Your Practice Retreat

A three-day trauma-informed retreat designed to help you step off the treadmill, reset, and transform the way you lead, teach, and work—with greater focus, presence, and care.

This work is for you if:

  • You navigate a high-pressure, emotionally demanding profession
  • You want to understand how trauma shapes your thinking and leadership
  • You need practical tools for emotional intelligence and boundaries
  • You are ready to reconnect with your purpose and professional clarity

What Myrna Actually Does

Through immersive workshops and embodied practices, Myrna helps you:

  • Strengthen emotional intelligence and resilience
  • Communicate with compassion while setting firm boundaries
  • Recognize and manage trauma responses in yourself and your team
  • Transform the way you lead, teach, and work
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Institutional Care

Trauma-Informed Leadership, Risk Mitigation & Institutional Care

Myrna works with organizations, leaders, and institutions who understand that mishandling harm, conflict, and trauma carries real consequences—human, legal, reputational, and financial. Her role is to help you prevent damage before it becomes irreversible.

This work is for you if:

  • You hold responsibility for people, decisions, or systems
  • You are navigating conflict, complaints, harm, or high-stakes accountability
  • You understand that trauma—ignored or mishandled, destabilizes institutions
  • You need guidance that is clear, credible, and grounded in lived reality, not theory

What Myrna Actually Does

Myrna helps organizations stabilize, protect, and rebuild trust when:

  • Harm has occurred
  • Systems are under strain
  • Leadership credibility is at risk
  • People are burned out, fearful, or disengaged
  • There is pressure to “move on” without real repair
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Workplace & Leadership

LoveBack™

Navigating Trauma in the Workplace

A transformative three-day healing and leadership retreat for Indigenous professionals navigating colonial harm and the impacts of intergenerational, racial, and cultural trauma, as revealed in their workplaces.

This work is for you if:

  • You are an Indigenous professional navigating colonial harm at work
  • You are experiencing the impacts of racial and cultural trauma in your career
  • You want to reclaim your authentic self and inner safety
  • You are ready to lead and create with renewed purpose

What Myrna Actually Does

Through circle time, storytelling, and somatic experiences, Myrna helps you:

  • Explore how systemic harm shows up in your body and mind
  • Restore what has been taken and strengthen what remains
  • Reclaim courage and clarity for your professional life
  • Navigate workplace trauma with confidence and resilience

Myrna also offers a customized version of this program for Indigenous leadership and Indigenous communities.

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Additional Services

In addition to our customized programs for leaders, lawyers and Indigenous community members, Myrna offers several additional services.

Myrna works directly with leaders, regulatory bodies, law societies, law enforcement, boards, legal professionals, and senior teams to:

  • Assess risk related to trauma, conflict, and organizational harm
  • Identify where systems are unintentionally causing damage
  • Provide clear, grounded guidance for high-stakes decision-making
  • Support leaders through moments where silence, delay, or missteps can escalate harm

Myrna designs and delivers trauma-responsive training that is:

  • Practical, not performative
  • Grounded in real cases and consequences
  • Designed to change behaviour—not just language

Training topics include:

  • Trauma-responsive leadership and governance
  • Handling complaints, disclosures, and conflict responsibly
  • Vicarious trauma, burnout, and moral injury
  • Duty of care and institutional accountability
  • Recognizing and responding to racial trauma, intergenerational trauma & organizational trauma
  • What happens when harm is mishandled—and how to prevent it

Myrna convenes leaders, practitioners, and decision-makers who need to build real-world skill in addressing harm, conflict, and trauma—not outsource it, avoid it, or mishandle it. These events are designed to strengthen participants’ ability to:

  • Respond to harm with emotional intelligence and humanity, even under pressure
  • Navigate difficult conversations without escalating conflict or retraumatizing others
  • Hold accountability while preserving dignity
  • Make decisions that are both ethically grounded and operationally sound
  • Intervene early—before issues harden into crises

This is not passive learning. Participants leave with language, judgment, and practical capacity they can apply immediately inside their own roles and institutions. These are not feel-good events. They are skill-building spaces for people who cannot afford to get this wrong.

Myrna works with lawyers, legal teams, and law or justice-adjacent professionals who are immersed in files involving trauma, abuse, and profound human suffering. This includes:

  • Consulting with lawyers handling high-impact litigation where exposure to traumatic material is ongoing
  • Supporting legal professionals navigating the emotional and ethical weight of abuse, violence, and systemic harm
  • Helping practitioners maintain clarity, judgment, and humanity without becoming overwhelmed, detached, or impaired by the work
  • Offering a culturally responsive & trauma-informed perspective that supports sound legal strategy without sacrificing human dignity

This work recognizes a reality the legal profession often minimizes: prolonged exposure to trauma changes how people think, decide, and carry responsibility.

Myrna’s role is to help legal professionals remain steady, ethical, engaged, and aware while doing this work.

How This Work Is Different

Myrna brings:

  • Lived experience alongside professional expertise
  • An understanding of trauma inside systems, not just individuals
  • The ability to name what others avoid, calmly, clearly, and without spectacle

“Clients work with Myrna because they need someone who can hold complexity without collapsing.”

Why This Matters

When trauma is ignored:

  • People disengage or leave and complaints escalate
  • Trust erodes
  • Legal and reputational risk increases

When trauma is mishandled:

  • Harm multiplies
  • Leaders lose credibility and institutions destabilize

This work exists to prevent that.

Engagements

Retainers & Advisory Relationships

Project-based Consultations

Custom Trainings & Keynotes

Conferences & Multi-day Gatherings

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