DAY TWO — RECLAMATION & RETURNING TO SELF

8:00 – 9:00 AM — Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 AM — Reflection

Prompt: “What does success and survival require from me?”

9:30 – 10:45 AM — The Masks We Wear: Code-Switching & Emotional Regulation

• The toll of code-switching and emotional performance

• Trauma responses: fawn, freeze, flight, fight

• The difference between suppression and self-regulation

• Naming boundary collapse as false professionalism

10:45 – 11:00 AM — Break

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM — Choosing Authenticity in Spaces That Demand Assimilation

This session explores:

• How assimilation is subtly enforced in workplace culture

• Stories of choosing truth, resistance, and visibility

• Expanding spaces where authenticity is possible

• Showing up with integrity v. performance Participants will reflect on when and why they compromise authenticity — and how they can reclaim it with strategy and support.

12:15 – 1:15 PM — Lunch

1:15 – 3:15 PM — Cultural Session: Medicine Bag Workshop with Vanessa Peckford

Participants craft medicine bags while reflecting on what they are reclaiming and protecting. A space of ceremony, silence, story, and stillness.

3:15 – 3:30 PM — Break

3:30 – 4:15 PM — Small Group Exercises

• What am I reclaiming?

• What needs to be protected?

• What am I unlearning?

4:15 PM onward — Restoration Time Spa

| Massage | Counselling | Land | Solitude

• One-on-one counselling with Debbi

• Massage with Sherry Lynn

• Healing Session with Moana

• Time in the spa, forest, or quiet reflection