Lecture with Marie Wilson, former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner

Join us for our inaugural lecture with Marie Wilson, former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner of Canada, on November 24 at 6PM titled “HUMILITY HOPE AND HEALING: An Examination of The Hidden Words in Truth and Reconciliation”.

The past decade has been a brutal awakening from widespread ignorance in Canada, a societal exposure to this country’s century-long hidden history of imposed residential schooling for Indigenous children. An unprecedented Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) concluded with a lengthy To Do List for governments and all sectors of society, to address the continuing legacy of multigenerational harms.

Universities generally, and professional schools specifically, have been challenged to reconsider their past and present practices. How can the exalted field of Medicine re-examine itself in the light of, to help or to harm?

Canadian residential school Survivors revealed much to the TRC about the enduring harms of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, as well as their own hopeful pathways to healing. Marie Wilson was a Commissioner who bore witness to what thousands of those former child Survivors presented. This lecture draws on reflections captured in her memoir, NORTH OF NOWHERE: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner. It contemplates the power of humility, community and spiritual ceremony as healing modalities for truth and reconciliation.

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