ADVISORY & CONSULTING
For Indigenous Communities
Trust has broken down between leadership and community. A team is carrying grief and still expected to deliver. A conversation has been avoided for years because no one knows how to begin.
As a Métis and Cree woman, Myrna is invited into these moments to walk alongside communities, leaders and professionals, in ways that honour relationship, lived experience and the realities we navigate every day.
We are not short on people willing to come into our communities and tell us what is wrong with us. That is not this work.
Myrna is invited in. She listens first, sits with what a community already knows, and helps name what has been difficult to say out loud. The direction comes from the community. So does the pace.
What stays afterward matters more than what happens in the room. A community keeps its own words for what it has been carrying, and its own plan for what comes next.
This work is part of Myrna McCallum’s Healing Imperative. It recognizes that leadership, 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 our people, families, and communities forward.
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-responsive education and reflection spaces
- Programs that support self-understanding, boundaries, and collective care
- Adapted versions of Myrna’s existing offerings for Indigenous leadership and communities
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
- Culturally grounded experiences rooted in story, relationship, and ceremony
- 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
Communities we have gathered with
LoveBack™ has been held in circle with communities across these lands. We are grateful for every community that has welcomed this work.
- Gitxaała
- Ahousaht
- Wei Wai Kum
- We Wai Kai
- Dehcho
- Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in
- Doig River First Nation
- Akwesasne
LoveBack™ has also been delivered in Iqaluit, Vancouver and Saskatoon.
“What an honour to learn from Myrna. The whole weekend felt like coming home.”
LoveBack™ participant“An Indigenous only event created a needed and uncommon safe space.”
LoveBack™ participant“The weekend was transformational. Coming together as Indigenous people in the spirit of healing was profound!”
LoveBack™ participant
LoveBack™ Retreat
A Strategic Emotional Intelligence & Leadership Development Retreat
Co-facilitated by Myrna McCallum and Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT, author of The Pain We Carry. Grounded in Myrna’s LoveBack™ methodology and Natalie’s work on complex trauma and ancestral wisdom, this retreat brings together two frameworks built for and with communities of colour, held at Kingfisher Pacific Resort & Spa.
This work is for you if:
- You are a leader, professional, or changemaker carrying your own history while caring for others
- You navigate the complex, emotionally demanding realities of leadership and community care
- You are ready to go deeper in your own growth and self-awareness
- You need space to step away, be held in community, and learn practical tools you can bring home
Together, we will explore
- Emotional regulation and the nervous system
- Boundaries, communication, and relational repair
- Navigating conflict without losing ourselves
- Sustainable leadership and the practice of receiving care
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 Myrna Works With
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities
- Indigenous leadership and governance bodies
- Indigenous women’s groups and community groups
- Indigenous professionals and community-serving staff
- Indigenous organizations, collectives, and teams
- Organizations seeking custom trauma-responsive and culturally grounded support
Ways to Work Together
- 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-responsive, relational, and grounded in Indigenous realities, this work is designed to meet that with care.