Our Team
Harley Eagle
Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility Consultant & Facilitator
Harley is of the Dakota and Ojibway Indigenous ancestry and member of the Whitecap Dakota First Nations Reserve, in Saskatchewan, Canada. He currently lives away from his homelands, residing in the beautiful K’omoks Territory on Vancouver Island, BC. Harley holds a master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Management.
Harley facilitates workshops and sessions that explore and build a foundation of understanding that includes an Indigenous perspective on Colonization, addressing Systemic Racism & Trauma-Informed Practice which are major components of Indigenous Cultural Safety. In addition, he consults with several organizations and companies in support of their Cultural Safety & Humility, decolonizing, and truth and reconciliation journeys.
Through interactive whole-group and small-group discussions and introspective exercises, his workshops build on the foundational Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility understandings so that participants together surface what is meaningful to an individual’s service delivery practice and what might be relevant to their unique organizational setting and its desire to understand and address systemic racism including Truth and Reconciliation efforts.
Sue Eagle
Anti-Racist & Decolonizing Support of White & White-identifying Peoples
Sue identifies as a White Settler of Russian Mennonite descent. She strives to remain respectful of the land and the People who are the original caretakers wherever she lives and visits. A Registered Social Worker (RSW) with 30 years of experience, her work and life have opened opportunities for her to learn about, develop and delve into tools for dismantling racist oppression and unpacking White privilege. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Abolitionism, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems therapy have been strong influences in her practice. Sue lives in Courtenay, British Columbia, on unceded K’omoks territory, which includes the Puntledge, Ieeksun, Sahtloot and Sasitla, with her husband, Harley. They are parents to three adult children and three grandchildren.
She has experience in Indigenous and White Anti-Racist social justice education, workshop creation and facilitation, institutional change, international policy analysis and advocacy, and social justice organizing, based in what is colonially referred to as Canada and the United States. Her current work includes a focus on deconstructing Whiteness in individuals, systems, and organizations using a Critical Race Theory-based analysis and a focus on Somatics.
Sue is committed to lifelong learning as she works to dismantle racism and Whiteness in her own life through an ongoing process of learning, unlearning, practice and action, reflection, and accountability. She is a member of several intentional White/Anti-racist/Decolonizing groups or communities of practice for mutual support and accountability in her work and life. She values and acknowledges that she has learned, either directly or indirectly, from many Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) throughout her lifetime and holds herself accountable to them.
Sarah Jean
Coordinator
Sarah Jean is a member of the Lake Babine First Nation in Interior BC on her mom’s side, and European on her dad’s side.
Being very aware and grateful for the reality of working and raising her three boys and pets as an uninvited guest on the stunning traditional, unceded, ancestral K’omoks territories; which includes the Pentlatch, Eiksan, Sahtloot, and Sasitla peoples on Vancouver Island. Connecting in with the forests, ocean, and rivers are an important part of her own healing, and adds fuel to the motivation of using her voice for the earth and community members.
Sarah is a natural community builder and empathic soul who brings a wealth of experience in supporting and organizing humans. Her past years include extensive experience in creating and connecting to make projects move forward successfully. She holds her heart with confidence in being a mom or auntie to everyone, and loved all the younger years of emergency medical training, event production and fundraising in community.
Some of her passion projects are towards the local food movement, catering, environmental, vulnerable and marginalized community advocacy, decolonizing, decolonizing, decolonizing!
She is a brilliant communicator who is committed to using her voice for Indigenous Cultural Safety, connecting community together, and speaking truths about Colonization, capitalism, and societies white supremacy culture.