Training that gets you certified, sessions that put culture back in the room, walks out on the land, and the patrols that go out every week whatever the weather. Most of it is free to the people who come.
These run whether or not anybody signs up. Two of them are run by SAGE Clan, not by us.
Every SundayEvenings
Hosted by Lethbridge SAGE ClanVolunteers walk Lethbridge every Sunday evening, carrying water, food, warm clothes and naloxone, and checking on people who are out. Birchbark supports the patrol. SAGE Clan runs it.
Lethbridge
Volunteers are welcome. Speak to SAGE Clan directly.
We support this patrol. We do not take registrations for it.
Every Saturday
Hosted by Lethbridge SAGE ClanA weekly patrol run by and for women, walking the same streets with the same purpose. Also SAGE-affiliated, also not ours to sign you up for.
Lethbridge
Day and time being confirmed. Ask SAGE Clan.
We support this patrol. We do not take registrations for it.
These run when there are enough people, or when a community asks for one. Getting on a list is how they get scheduled.
Date to be announced
Birchbark is sponsoring a full bison for the community. The harvest is a teaching as much as it is food: how the animal is taken, how it is handled, how nothing is wasted, and who it goes to afterward. Come for any part of the day.
Southern Alberta, exact location shared with those who register
Date being confirmed. Register and we will tell you first.
Date to be announced
Full certification, taught in a room where nobody is going to make you feel stupid for not knowing something. We run these as cohorts, so the next one goes ahead when the list is long enough.
Lethbridge
Next cohort forming now.
Date to be announced
How to recognise an overdose, how to respond, and how to use a kit. Takes under an hour. You leave with a kit and with the confidence to open it. More than two thousand kits have gone out this way.
Lethbridge and Blood Tribe communities
Run regularly, and on request for your group.
Date to be announced
Led by an infectious disease physician, taught train-the-trainer so what you learn does not stop with you. Practical care for wounds that are not getting looked at anywhere else.
Lethbridge
Scheduled around our clinicians. Get on the list.
Date to be announced
What to do when someone is in crisis and you are the person who is there. Certification course, run in cohorts.
Lethbridge
Next cohort forming.
Date to be announced
A session on smudging: what the medicines are, how they are kept, and how a smudge is offered. Open to community members and to people who work alongside our communities and want to understand what they are being invited into.
Lethbridge
Held through the year.
Date to be announced
Out on the land with people who know it, learning to recognise the medicines, when they are ready, and what they are confused with. The medicine finder on this site is a starting point for these walks, not a replacement for them.
Coulees and river bottoms around Lethbridge
Seasonal, mostly late spring through autumn.
Look through the medicine finder →
Date to be announced
Sessions on the Beaver Bundle are held with the people who carry it. What is shared, and with whom, is theirs to decide, not ours, and not this website’s.
Speak with us in person or by phone. There is no form for this one.
We travel. If you can get a room and a group together, we will bring the training to you, and we will bring the kits.
Ask us to come →Our medicine finder covers what grows here, when it is ready, and what it is confused with.
Open the medicine finder →