ADVISORY & CONSULTING
For Indigenous Communities
Grounded support for Indigenous communities, leaders, and organizations.
This work is part of Myrna McCallum’s Healing Imperative. It is grounded in the understanding that healing is not optional — and that for Indigenous communities, healing has always been relational, collective, and rooted in the wisdom that was never lost, only suppressed. Humanity-centered practice is how that understanding becomes action.
Myrna works with Indigenous communities, Indigenous leadership, and Indigenous professionals in ways that honour relationship, lived experience, and the realities communities are navigating every day.
This work recognizes that leadership, healing, conflict, burnout, grief, and community responsibility do not exist in isolation. They are shaped by histories of colonial harm, intergenerational trauma, systemic pressure, and the ongoing work of carrying people, families, and communities forward.
Myrna offers support that is trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and relational. Her role is not to impose solutions from the outside, but to create space for clearer understanding, stronger leadership, deeper reflection, and more grounded ways of moving through difficulty together.
Bringing Indigenous knowledge, trauma-informed practice, and deep respect for community realities into spaces that need care, clarity, and support.
Core Services
Community-Centred Advisory & Support
Support for communities, leadership, and organizations navigating complexity, strain, and change.
- Advisory for Indigenous leadership and community-serving organizations
- Support in navigating internal conflict, leadership pressures, and community strain
- Guidance where trust has been impacted or difficult conversations need to happen carefully
- Community-responsive support shaped by context, relationships, and lived realities
Custom Programs for Indigenous Communities
Programs designed with community realities in mind, not delivered as one-size-fits-all training.
- Custom workshops and gatherings
- Indigenous leadership development
- Trauma-informed education and reflection spaces
- Programs that support healing, self-understanding, boundaries, and collective care
- Adapted versions of Myrna’s existing offerings for Indigenous leadership and communities
Healing, Leadership & Relational Practice
Support for the human side of leadership and community life.
- Understanding how trauma, grief, and intergenerational burdens show up in leadership and relationships
- Strengthening self-awareness, emotional steadiness, and relational responsibility
- Restoring clarity, trust, and connection where people are carrying too much for too long
- Creating space for reflection, regulation, and more grounded ways of leading and relating
Retreats, Gatherings & Facilitated Spaces
Spaces for restoration, courageous learning, and deeper community conversation.
- Community-based retreats and facilitated gatherings
- Healing-centred and culturally grounded experiences
- Spaces that support collective reflection, connection, and renewal
- Facilitation that honours both individual experience and shared community responsibility
Indigenous Liberation, Justice & Systems Awareness
Support for communities and organizations engaging questions of colonial harm, racial justice, and liberation.
- Programs that explore how colonial systems continue to shape lived experience
- Reflection on power, harm, accountability, and collective responsibility
- Education grounded in Indigenous worldviews and justice
- Support for communities, Indigenous professionals, and organizations seeking deeper understanding and meaningful action
LoveBackâ„¢ Retreat
LoveBackâ„¢ Indigenous Women’s Leadership, Healing & Emotional Intelligence
LoveBackâ„¢ is Myrna’s signature methodology for Indigenous communities. A 2.5-day leadership and healing retreat. Grounded in Indigenous and Polynesian wisdom, this experience bridges trauma-responsive professional development with intergenerational healing—closing with an optional morning of rest at Scandinave Spa.
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 a supportive space to step back, rest, and learn practical tools for emotional regulation
What Myrna Actually Does
Myrna blends Indigenous knowledge with practical trauma healing to help you:
- Explore how colonial and racial trauma impacts your leadership journey
- Develop emotional intelligence and regulate your nervous system safely
- Navigate leadership challenges with empathy via embodied somatic practices
- Deepen connections and rebuild trust through storytelling, movement, and ceremony
A different kind of support
Myrna’s work with Indigenous communities is grounded in the understanding that people are often carrying much more than what is visible on the surface.
This work creates room to slow down, understand what is happening more clearly, and respond in ways that do not cause further harm.
It is not about quick fixes. It is about supporting people and communities with greater care, honesty, steadiness, and dignity.
What may be happening beneath the surface:
- Burnout may be connected to grief.
- Conflict may be connected to pain, pressure, or unresolved harm.
- Leadership may be shaped by both responsibility and exhaustion.
- Community dynamics may hold layers of history, survival, love, and strain all at once.
Who I Work With
- Indigenous communities and Nations
- Indigenous leadership and governance bodies
- Indigenous women’s groups and community groups
- Indigenous professionals and community-serving staff
- Indigenous organizations, collectives, and teams
- Communities and organizations seeking custom trauma-informed and culturally grounded support
Engagement Models
- Community-based advisory and consultation
- Custom workshops and programs
- Facilitated gatherings and retreats
- Leadership support
- Speaking engagements and community education
- Adapted delivery of existing Myrna McCallum programs for Indigenous communities
Outcomes
- Stronger and more grounded leadership
- Greater clarity around conflict, strain, and relational challenges
- More trauma-aware and culturally responsive community support
- Space for healing, reflection, and renewal
- Deeper understanding of how colonial harm and intergenerational trauma continue to shape present realities
- Support that strengthens both individuals and the wider community around them
Ready to Start a Conversation?
If your community, leadership team, or organization is looking for support that is trauma-informed, relational, and grounded in Indigenous realities, this work is designed to meet that with care.