7:00–8:00 – Check-in, Registration & Breakfast

8:00–8:30 – Welcome by Myrna McCallum & Opening Prayer | Words by Shain Jackson Indigenous Story Booth | Stanley Park Ballroom

8:30–8:55 – Opening Keynote

• ➜ The Emotional Architecture of Justice: Trauma, Healing, and the Work of Collective Liberation – Myrna McCallum | Stanley Park Ballroom | Cree-Métis lawyer and Summit host Myrna McCallum, unpacks how trauma affects individuals, communities, and justice systems. This opening keynote offers a framework that prioritizes humanity, cultural responsiveness, and relational healing for collective liberation.

9:00–10:30 – Integration Workshops

• ➜ Justice System Professionals: Radical Hope for the Future Us – Anna Trbovich, Jason Balgopal & Robert Kozak
  Jason Balgopal (Osgoode Hall, called 1999), Assistant Crown Attorney and Mental Wellness Peer Support founder, lives with depression/anxiety amid murder prosecutions. Anna Trbovich, former Toronto Crown now Court of Appeal, lives with depression raising a disabled child. Robert Kozak (30+ years criminal justice) teaches trauma-informed practice at Bora Laskin Law. 
  They share burnout/vicarious trauma stories, healing moments, resilience strategies, and visions for professionals to thrive. 
  

• ➜ Healing in the Heart of Bureaucracy: An Ombuds Perspective – Dr. Nadia Ferrara

• Dr. Nadia Ferrara, Ombuds at Indigenous Services Canada and the Privy Council Office, draws on her background as an art therapist, anthropologist, and public servant to explore hope as a relational practice grounded in humility, compassion, and deep listening. This session introduces Radical Hope as the courage to move forward despite uncertainty, integrating trauma informed principles to honour experiences of harm while imagining new pathways for dignity and fairness within bureaucratic systems. Dr. Ferrara emphasizes that humanizing institutions strengthens psychological safety and ethical commitment. Hope is presented as an organizational necessity, offering stability, care, and empowerment during periods of change and disruption.
  

• ➜ Hope After Silence: Ending NDAs in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse – Sherri Thomson & Susan MacRae

• Susan MacRae and Sherri Thomson, co-founders of survivor-led The Restitution Project(TRP), breached their 30 year NDAs, to advocate ending NDA misuse via policy, education and survivor voices. In relationship with Jaime L. Montour, this session will combine legal change through a wholistic approach to restorative justice grounded in healing and radical hope. 
  
  They highlight 2025 breakthroughs (Trey’s Law Texas/Missouri, UK Employment ghts Bill), NDA trauma, legal innovations, anCanadian advocacy paths
  

• ➜ Speaking Hope: A Nonviolent Communication Approach to Language as Liberation – Leonie Smith | Cypress Room
  P. Leonie Smith, first-generation Jamaican-Canadian Black femme Nonviolent Communication expert and founder of The Thoughtful Workplace (Vancouver), uses relational skill-building for coaching/training/mediation over 20 years in senior management. Informed by NVC and Sociocracy. 
   
  We often struggle to speak our truth, unsure if we can express ourselves with clarity and care. Our voice when walled in by fear can dash hope and can create disconnection  from the people and communities that we contribute to and care for. Join us as we learn how to find our voice, find our words, and express them in ways that honour our greatest values and foster connection. 

10:30–10:45 – Coffee Break

10:45–11:45 – Healing Workshops

• ➜ Polynesian Practices: Healing Tools for Clearing, Restoring & Protecting Self – Moana Paulus

• Polynesian Healer, Moana Paulus, supports hundreds of people a year in her private practice, as a bodyworker assisting guests at First Nations Trauma, Grief and Loss retreats with the Ligwilda‘xw Health Society and travelling with Tsow Tun Le Lum’s Cultural Support team. 
   
  Fusing techniques from Maori Romiromi (birthright) and Hawaiian Lomilomi (w. permission) lineages, Moana helps release trauma at a cellular level without retraumatization, gently reconnecting body, mind and spirit for balance. Find tips for clearing energetic residue. restoring alignment and protecting power. 
  

• ➜ Honouring the Four Directions: A Medicine Wheel Approach to Self-Care – Ally Hrbachek

• Polynesian Healer, Moana Paulus, supports hundreds of people a year in her private practice, as a bodyworker assisting guests at First Nations Trauma, Grief and Loss retreats with the Ligwilda‘xw Health Society and travelling with Tsow Tun Le Lum’s Cultural Support team. 
   
  Fusing techniques from Maori Romiromi (birthright) and Hawaiian Lomilomi (w. permission) lineages, Moana helps release trauma at a cellular level without retraumatization, gently reconnecting body, mind and spirit for balance. Find tips for clearing energetic residue. restoring alignment and protecting power. 
  

11:45–12:45 – Lunch

12:45–2:15 – Plenary

• ➜Indigenous Women Shaping Justice, Truth, and Change: A Conversation on Leadership & Legacy– Sgt. Charmaine Parenteau, Angela Sterritt, Rhianna Millman & Saskatchewan Provincial Court Judge Lua Gibb | Moderated by Myrna McCallum | Stanley Park Ballroom

• This plenary convenes Indigenous women leaders for dialogue on leadership, legacy, and transforming justice through truth-telling and relational change amid colonial impacts, offering frameworks for collective liberation and radical hope.

2:15–2:30 – Break

2:30–3:00 – Spotlight Speaker Series

• ➜Truth & Transformation: Confronting Hard Histories & Building Pathways to Change – Angela Sterritt

• Angela Sterritt (Gitxsan) is an award-winning investigative journalist, national bestselling author, and speaker centering Indigenous truths, breaking stereotypes, and fostering hope for Indigenous women and communities. Her storytelling weaves lived experience with advocacy for healing and reconciliation. 
   
  Angela shares insights on resilience and truth-telling: “Story has power—not just to educate, but to awaken, to unsettle, and to move people into action.” 
  

• ➜Breaking the Cycle: Holistic Defense Against Family Separation – Roshell Amezcua, Esq.

• Roshell Amezcua is Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Loyola Law School, leading holistic models bridging legal advocacy, social work, and community partnerships. Formerly at The Bronx Defenders, she critiques family/youth courts perpetuating harm and offers community-rooted approaches honoring youth voices and strengthening families to interrupt generational trauma.

• ➜Conscious Contracts: TI Legal Practice for Relational Healing – Fernanda Guerra, Esq.

• Fernanda Guerra, Esq., Latin America's first certified in Conscious Contracts®, has 25+ years as a lawyer in mediation, dialogue facilitation, and Plain Language. Founder of Casa 20 and Fernanda Guerra Advocacia, she teaches at Rio de Janeiro's School of Magistracy (EMERJ) and Instituto Mediare, and co-authored Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Practicing Lawyers (2023). 
   
  She shows how contracts become mirrors for relational healing via trauma-informed practices like active listening, family constellations, and restorative justice, as in prenups and child support cases surfacing traumas and rebuilding trust. 
  

• ➜International Justice Mechanisms: From Rhetoric to Practice in Trauma-Responsive Strategies – Danya Chaikel | Cypress Room

• Danya Chaikel is the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Representative to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, specializing in victims’ rights, trauma-responsive accountability, and practitioner well-being.  
   
  She advances humane approaches to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide investigations and prosecutions, including conflict-related sexual violence. She shares emerging strategies from the Global Initiative Against Impunity, the Institute for International Criminal Investigations, the Eurojust Genocide Prosecution Network, and MHPSS initiatives bridging survivors lived realities with institutional justice processes to advance healing-centered international justice.

3:00–4:30 – Strategy Workshops

• ➜Rethinking Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence: a Systemic Investigation – Dr. Benjamin Roebuck, Hoori Hamboyan & Mariam Musse

• This session shares results from a national systemic investigation with nearly 3000 voices: survivors, service providers, police, counsel, and judges. Findings touch on R. v. Jordan, myths and stereotypes, therapy records, cross-examination, rights, and legal advice. Participants collaborate on strategies to transform justice responses to sexual violence. 
  

• ➜True Narratives: What Must We Believe Before an Abolitionist Future – Sarah Katz, Esq. & Corey Best | Cypress Room

• Sarah Katz is Clinical Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law and directs the Family Justice Clinic advancing abolition, anti-racist, trauma-aware family law. 
   
  Corey Best, Black father and organizer, founded Mining For Gold for racial justice and collective healing, co-designing with impacted communities to reimagine child/family systems. 
  

• ➜Effective Approaches to Conscious Contracts – Fernanda Guerra, Esq.

• Fernanda Guerra, Esq., Latin America's first certified in Conscious Contracts®, has 25+ years as a lawyer in mediation, dialogue facilitation, and Plain Language. Founder of Casa 20 and Fernanda Guerra Advocacia, she teaches at Rio de Janeiro's School of Magistracy (EMERJ) and Instituto Mediare, and co-authored Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Practicing Lawyers (2023). 
   
  She shows how contracts become mirrors for relational healing via trauma-informed practices like active listening, family constellations, and restorative justice, as in prenups and child support cases surfacing traumas and rebuilding trust. 

• ➜Building Trauma-Responsive International Justice Institutions – Danya Chaikel | Cypress Room

  How do we move from institutional commitments to implementation? 
   
  Danya Chaikel explores concrete strategies for embedding trauma-responsive safeguards across international justice processes so investigations and trials avoid re-traumatisation, protect dignity, and better serve victims and affected communities. 

4:30 – End of Day 2