Indigenous Cultural Sensitivity Workshops

The Blanket Exercise is an experience, a workshop educational tool, that is used to revisit Canada’s history through an Indigenous lens.

It is a history lesson, a demonstration, that invites participants from all cultural backgrounds to experience the history of Canada’s indigenous and non-indigenous relationship.

Trained facilitators introduce participants to the timeline of historical Canadian events that span from before the European colonizers arrived to today. This is the story of the shared history of the indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of Canada.

​The Blanket Exercise was first developed by KAIROS Canada in 1997; a product of a collaborative effort between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.