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Spirit Storycatching Network is an Indigenous-led Mobile Cultural Wellness and Teaching Team that works alongside First Nations communities to support youth leadership, cultural healing, and local helper development through land-based learning and mentorship.
Spirit Storycatching Network is a mobile cultural wellness and teaching team that works in invited partnership with First Nations, schools, and organizations seeking to strengthen community wellness through land-based teaching, relational mentorship, and culturally-guided programming.
Our work is grounded in Indigenous knowledge, lived experience, and relationship-based approaches that honour culture, land, and story, and is carried out alongside existing local leadership, cultural helpers, and community supports.
We support youth, families, helpers, and staff through peer mentorship pathways, grief and addiction supports, youth leadership programming, land-based cultural gatherings, conflict transformation and restorative processes, leadership retreats, and Storycatching-informed community toolkits — all shaped by community priorities, values, and local context.
Meet the Storycatcher Team
Edlanet’e! Kwey, Tansi, Oki! Hello - we are a team of community helpers with a broad skillset of Traditional Indigenous approaches and knowledge and experience in western approaches. Our team has a combined education of over 50 years with combined experience of work over 230 years. We are grandparents and parents with various belief systems that we use to support communities we work with.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to work in invited partnership with Indigenous communities to strengthen cultural wellness through land-based teaching, relational mentorship, and community-guided pathways for healing, learning, and leadership.
This work is carried by Kelley Bird-Naytowhow, BISW, MISW, an Indigenous Mental Health Therapist from Montreal Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, and Cindy Deschênes, BHSc, MRSW (PhD Candidate), a Registered Social Worker from the Kitigan Zibi and Kitiganik Algonquin communities in Quebec. In Indigenous ways of working, naming where we come from reflects our relationships to land, culture, and responsibility, and reminds us that this work is carried alongside the families, communities, and Nations that have taught us.
Through Spirit Storycatching Network, we walk alongside youth, families, local cultural helpers, educators, and leadership to support culturally-guided wellness in ways that honour land, story, and community priorities. Our work may take place across school settings, seasonal land-based gatherings, and community-based supports, with a focus on strengthening mentorship pathways, leadership development, grief and addiction supports, and continuity of care.
Rather than delivering pre-designed programs, our role is to support pathways that emerge through relationship — creating space for intergenerational learning, youth mentorship, and the strengthening of local capacity over time. Each partnership is guided by invitation, community leadership, and local protocols, with the understanding that culture, wellness, and leadership are held within community and supported through collective responsibility.
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The experience was truly life-changing, helping me reconnect with my roots.
