This Learning Circles session focuses on Indigenous culturally safer terminology and the role language and behaviour play in creating culturally and psychologically safer workplaces.
You’ll learn practical guidance for respectful terminology, avoiding possessive language, and reflecting on how everyday communication can impact safety and belonging in tourism and hospitality workplaces.
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Learning Circles: Culturally Safer Terminology is part of a video series exploring Indigenous perspectives on psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Created to support employers and workers across BC’s tourism and hospitality industry, this series is a partnership between Len Pierre Consulting, go2HR, and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).
In this session, we focus on culturally safer terminology and the role language and behaviour play in creating culturally and psychologically safer workplaces.
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What This Learning Circle Covers
Following people’s leadership on how they wish to be identified
Using respectful and accurate terminology
Capitalizing Indigenous and using Peoples to reflect diversity
Avoiding possessive language and understanding power dynamics
When terms like Native and Indian may or may not be appropriate, depending on context
Participants are encouraged to regularly reflect on their language and behaviours when working with Indigenous colleagues, communities, and partners.
This video is part of a multi-part Learning Circles series. Each session offers practical tools to help build more inclusive, culturally safe, and psychologically healthy workplaces.
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