Indigenous Co-management Course

This 60 minute introductory course is designed to introduce working professionals to the concept of co-management with Indigenous Peoples. The course may act as a starting point in your journey to do this work in a thoughtful and purposeful way. By actively finishing this course, you are showing your commitment to Indigenous reconciliation. 

Program Topics

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Introduction to Co-Management

The introductory module on co-management provides an overview of the discipline's different aspects and its importance. It includes lectures, guest speakers, and examples of various co-management systems in Canada.

Positionality in Co-Management

This module of the course explores the importance of positionality and the practice of keeping an updated positionality statement so you can situate yourself in your research and career, and understand the impact you may have on a co-management scenario.

Cultural Competence in Co-Management

In this module you are encouraged to work on being more culturally competence, to practice cultural humility, and there are practical suggestions offered to where you may start in this area of your work in co-management.

Science, Research and Responsibility

This section of our co-management course will explore the responsibilities of natural scientists in the age of reconciliation and there will be special guest to challenge you on decolonizing your science, and offer practical ideas of how to implement in co-management.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems

This module is considered advanced because most learners are still trying to understand and appreciate Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous science, and concepts like two-eyed seeing, and three-eyed seeing, and other practices and ways of life that are inseparable with co-management.

Co-Management-Led Research

This course introduced co-management led research and situates it along other methodological approaches to research in community and with Indigenous Peoples. 

Co-Management and Indigenous Well-Being

This module is designed to illustrate how your work in co-management is directly interlinked with Indigenous health and wellbeing and the actions taken in fish and wildlife management need to consider this dimension.

Dealing with the emotions of ecological loss

This module provides learners the space needed to express emotions related to the loss of biodiversity. People in community, researchers, and scientists and others are grieving and struggling with the rate of change, and how can we harness that for positive change in co-management?

Co-Management and the law

It is reasonable to believe that diverse co-management partners can implement positive actions without the need for intervention by the courts. What have we learned so far from the courts and are the courts the way forward?

Co-Management and consensus

Most co-management settings today are operating in consensus environments and this style of doing our practice of co-management comes with its unique challenges and our reflective in this area is needed for progress. 

Adaptive Co-Management

This module covers the topic of adaptive co-management and how we learning from our decisions and how co-managements can reflect and adjust to new situations and challenges that may arise. 

Course Objectives

Discovery

Discover the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of co-management.    

Build

Build confidence and pathways to improve professional skill sets in this area of work.

Connect

Connect with professionals working in this area. 

Course Facilitator

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Jamie Snook, PhD
Educator, Researcher, Leader, Catalyst
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Jamie has been a co-management executive director for 15 years in an Inuit context, and has over 20 years working in Northern and Indigenous public policy and governance. Jamie brings a mix of relevant research, education, and professional and lived experiences to facilitating this course. Jamie created the Co-management Commons resource and hosts a dedicated co-management podcast. He is joined by many of the leading scholars in Canada in the delivery of this program.
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