Registration

Activity 1
Virtual Dementia Tour by Alzheimer Society Manitoba
Facilitator: Liz McLeod

The Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT) is a hands-on activity which attempts to simulate a few of the physical and cognitive changes in people with dementia. With each participant “garbed” and the room set up, a pair of participants will go through different tasks and debriefing for a period of 15 minutes. This tour had been proven to increase the understanding of the needs of people with dementia.
Activity 2
The Blanket Exercise
Facilitator: Debby Dandy, KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator; Erica Brown, KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator; Susie McPherson, Cree Knowledge Keeper

The Blanket Exercise is based on participatory popular education methodology and the goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Everyone is actively involved as they step onto blankets that represent the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy.
Activity 3
Forced Migration Simulation
Facilitator: Westman Immigrant Services

The Forced Migration Simulation aims to create awareness of what it is like for many thousands of people around the world who have been forced to migrate from their home country to another. Participants will be grouped into “families” and provided with resource cards such as food and health. Together they must make decisions about how to navigate their difficult situation, including whether to flee their home without important documents, bribe the military at checkpoints or try to sneak around them in the night, and whether to settle in a refugee camp or carry on to another country in the hopes of finding refuge. In the end, the simulation will help participants to understand some of the situations and emotions a refugee goes through.
Activity 4
Poverty Simulation by United Way
Facilitator: Janis Evans

During the Poverty Simulation, you will take on the identity of someone living in poverty. You will work together with your family to live a month in poverty. Your simulated “community” is a large room. You and your neighbors’ “homes” are chairs in the center. The services you need like banks, schools and grocery stores are tables that line the perimeter of the room.

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Wednesday, April 29