Good afternoon everyone.

Chris Aucoin - ED of the AIDS Coalition of NS

Kwe Nitaptut...N'in na John R.

Greetings! Christine J Long from Nova Scotia Works in Yarmouth!

Hi Everyone, I'm Devbani Raha. I'm an epidemiologist with the Nova Scotia Health, Cancer Care Program.

Hi everyone! Programming & Community Engagement Manager with Halifax Public Libraries.

Hello all. I’m Robyn. United Church Campus Minister with Dalhousie’s Multifaith Services office.

hi everyone I am Wendy McVeigh with Nova Scotia Health Continuing Care.

Hi Everyone, Kerry Copeland with the Healthy Tomorrow Foundation

Hi Everyone. I am so pleased to be present for this session. Thank you for the opportunity. My name is Pauline MacIntosh.

Hello! Tanika Seabrook from NS Works in Yarmouth :)

Good day! Meagan MacDonald from Community Links.

Hi all! Hailey Mosher, Autism Skills Worker and Social Work Student with Nova Scotia Health. Happy to be able to join you all!

Hi all! I'm the Phoenix Employment Support Worker at PLEC

Lisa Gleave, from the Atlantic Presenters Association. I’m located close to E'se'katik, colonist name Lunenburg.

Hello! Curriculum Consultant in STEM with Labour and Advanced Education

Hello Sandy here from Halifax Public Libraries,; I am a regional coordinator

Hey all, Geoff Tobin, Communications Officer with RMHC Atlantic

Hi there! Dawn Gordon from Dept. of Labour and Advanced Education

HI I am Deborah Bonnar from Island Employment

Hello! Brittany Colburn, Indigenous Relations Representative for the Labourers Union Local 615

Good Afternoon. I am Heather Morse, Chair of the Western Kings Community Health Board in the Annapolis Valley.

Hello everyone, this is Ambuj from UnitedWay Halifax. Pleased to be here.

Hello, I'm Liane Khoury (she/her). Mental Health Promoter at NSHA.

Hello. Erica Baker. Human Resources Consultant with Nova Scotia Health out of Antigonish!

Vicki Goodwin - Program Assistant, Employment of Nova Scotia LAE

Tracey Purdy-Oickle - hi to all - I work with Digital Health Department of Health & Wellness

Hell All! Ann-Marie Mathieu, Chief Executive Officer with the Annapolis Valley Regional Library

Hi Everyone! Coordinator of the Learn & Explore At Phoenix program (LE@P) in Halifax

Hello, I'm Miguelle - Executive Staff Officer of Professional Learning at the NSTU & Dartmouth Community Health Board member.

Hey all!! Lindsey from Mental Health in Middleton, child team :)

Bert Thompson. Counsellor at NSCC Truro Campus. Pleased to be here.

Hello all - Heather Smith (she/her) NS Health Social Worker in Primary Health.

Hi, Kim Barlow from Music In Communities Co-op in Canning

Lisa Lowthers - Coach, trainer and Learning Manager with Common Good Solutions in the Annapolis Valley.

Tracy Wilson, Coordinator of Community Support, from Cape Breton Regional Library

Kwe/hello everyone. Anna-Lee with the Gaia Project (NB). Really happy to be here :)

Ebenezer Annan, NS Apprenticeship Agency

Hi all, I'm Japna Sidhu-Brar (she/her), Atlantic Racial Justice Liaison with Unifor Canada

Caitlin O'Neill (she/they) - Project Lead in Cancer Care at Nova Scotia Health

Hello all, Leigh Heide here, Provincial Coordinator for Sexual Health NS

Hi everyone, I'm Janet Dyson and I'm the Alumni and Donor Relations Officer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University.

Cat Shears (They/Them) Adolescent Outreach worker with Nova Scotia Health

Hi all! Renee Meuse BIshara here from N Yarmouth Regional Hospital where I work as a Manager

Kwe/Hello there - Sarah Blades (she/her) from IWK Health here today. Thank you for this opportunity today.

Hi Marie Sophie Aucoin, Island Employment Association, Cheticamp

Chris James - Manager of Labour Market Programs from LAE

Hi Everyone! Melissa from CECNB, Youth Partnership Coordinator for the Annapolis Valley.

Hi everyone! I'm Kassondra, a librarian from Halifax Public Libraries.

Hi Everyone. Travis DeCoste, Case Manager/Workshop Facilitator with Nova Scotia Works - Island Employment in Port Hawkesbury, NS.

Good afternoon - Stephanie Patriquin (She/her), Adult Education Coordinator, Northern Region, LAE

Kwe', teluisi Lydia. I work for NS Health

Hello, Evelyn Headley-Boutilier -Island Employment Sydney Office

HI, I’m Jane the Human Resource Coordinator at L’Arche Cape Breton, where people with and without developmental disabilities share life together.

Hello , Claire Halpern (she/her), executive director, Shubenacadie Canal Commission

Hi all! I'm Naomi Samela (she/her), Office Administrator at The North Grove

Hello! Amanda MacDonald (she/her) here from United Way Halifax

Hi everyone, this is Emily from Office to Advance Women Apprentices.

Hi, I'm Lisa - Community Health Board Coordinator with NS Health

Hi Everyone, Amy here from the Atlantic Canada Opportunies Agency.

Hello :) I'm Nena, a consultant with Dept of LAE. Wela'lin for this session

Hi All! Olivia Corkum here and I am a Junior Policy Analyst with ACOA :)

Kwe/Hello everyone! Hannah joining from CECNB's Youth Partnership Initiative.

Hello, all. I’m Elizabeth, comms advisor with the Healthy Tomorrow Foundation

Hello! The MacPhee Centre team is here watching together. Happy to be here.

Hi everyone! Michelle Christmas and Kim Rinaldo here from Direction 180, Opioid Treatment Program in Halifax

Hello everyone! I am Kim Kilfoil with the Department of Labour and Advanced Education.

two identities

fluidity

Hi all Lynn Aylward of Acadia. I think about identity

Having connection to both sides of your self.

gender fluidity

Open mind

Combination of male/female attributes in any combination

non-binary gender identity / inclusion

Hi everyone, Loretta Littlejohn CCDP from YMCA of Cape Breton Nova Scotia Works in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Also work as an Assessor with the NSCDA

pan-Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+

mind soul connection

fluid identities

a more rounded identity

Two identities in one body

two identities

A place of respect in indigenous culture

Female/male duality

gender non-binary

I am not well versed with the term, and I want to know more.

I don't know what that means.

Authentic self

two perspectives

Uniquely indigenous identity involving combination of identity

I think of indigenous people who have male and female characteristics

Open with self to explore identity

connections, respect

two spirits / one body

gender duality

First nations persons with a shared identity of male and female

can feel and understand both a “male” and “female” perspective

Outside the colonial gender and sexual understanding

two identities

Indigenous identity that sometimes concerns gender, sometimes sexuality, oftentimes spirituality, sometimes all of those!

freedom, fluidity in roles, continuous and growing identity

male and female identity in harmony

identifies with both male and female spirts

encompassing multiple identities and seeing multiple perspectives

Third gender, non binary

embracing both the feminine and masculine genders in ourselves

Hello Michelle Thomason with Labour and Advanced Education

Hi All. Derrick Brooks, Manager Sector Initiatives with NS Dept of Labour and Advanced Education

Hi Everyone!! I'm Jennifer MacIntosh with NS Works in Shelburne NS.

yes

we do

The library does!

yes

yes

Not yet- too new

AVRL Yes

yes

Some of my clients do :)

UCC Chaplaincy at Dal does

we do

nope

Yes

Yes, essential or we cannot function

Yes! I have a good friend who is a teacher in Bella Bella. The return to traditional ways has been so beneficial for the entire community, but especially the youth.

Video from Ikea Canada that John mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=god6umRaAak

Thank you!

Question: What does Nekm mean? Is it the Mi'kmaw word for Two Spirit? Thank you!

Wela'lin, John. Thank you for your wisdom and experiences

Link to Pride Flag Raising from John R. Sylliboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypx-af7ZOXY

Heather: Nekm is a pronoun like he or she

Please pardon my lack of knowledge, I want to know more about "Two-Eyed Seeing".

Wela'lioq to all organizers today - many thanks everyone!

thank you so much for sharing your journey and the impact you have had to influence change. You have given me renewed energy to become a stronger champion on this front. Unfortunately, i need join a call at 2 so need to log off.

many thanks

Check out “Telling Our Twisted Histories” podcast.

Great Podcast!

wela lin

Thank you so much for this John!

Link to session about Two-Eyed Seeing with Elder Albert Marshall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypx-af7ZOXY

This was a great presentation.

Wela'lin John and organizers.

Thank you so much for Sharing!

Thank you for sharing with us today.

Thank you so much for sharing.

Always appreciate learning with you John - looking forward to the next time <3 Wela’lin

wela’lioq! This was great

There's a quote from Nelson Mandela that says we are born knowing how to love; we have to be taught how to hate.

Thank you so much for this awesome presentation John. Nice to see you again. I remember you speaking at the NSCDA conference a few years ago!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful learning.

wela’lioq

Thank you Mr. Sylliboy for sharing your knowledge today!

Thank you John for sharing your story. Perfect not just because it is June 21st but also because this is exactly what is needed in our communities right now. Thank you!

Wela’lin John, for sharing with us!

Thanks very much.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us John.

Thank you

Thank you, John! I have to "run" to another meeting!

Thank you so much!

Wela'loqi!!!

Thanks!

Wela'lin nitap!

Thank John and everyone

Thank you for your time, John!

Thank you!

Wela'lin/Thank you, John for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.

Wela'lin, John!

Wela’lioq. Much gratitude to John and all of you for sharing.

Much appreciated!

Wela'lin / thank you so much :)

Thank you!

Wel'alin

Thank you!

Thank you John!!

Thank you! Welalioq

Thanks John !