Red Road to Recovery - Virtual
2025-08-27 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
Good Day,
We will be hosting a 10-week Red Road to Recovery session open to all community members over zoom. Please contact Roxanne to register for the series. Feel free to share with those who would benefit from attending this series.
Miigwetch!

Indigenous Arts-Based Mindfulness (IAM) Series
2025-08-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-04 13:00 - 15:00 | 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia (Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Match Hub), 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 4T8, Canada
We’re pleased to announce a new Indigenous Arts-Based Mindfulness (IAM) 12-week series starting June 19, 2025

When: Thursdays from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: 110 Matchedash St N, Orillia
Please Register at the website link below

This culturally rooted series supports emotional regulation, self-awareness, and healing through mindfulness and creative expression. Participants will engage in activities such as drawing, storytelling, and guided imagery to promote holistic wellness.

The IAM series is open to Indigenous adults who have previously attended recovery groups with Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin or other organizations. Eligible participants must not be engaged in active substance use that interferes with their daily coping strategies and ability to participate.

Space is limited—please register early to secure your spot.

Miigwetch,
Lorie & Jonathan

Sweetgrass Gathering Circle - Aftercare Peer Support
2025-08-28 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-04 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-11 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-09-18 17:00 - 18:30 | ON
Location: 110 Matchedash St N, OrilliaTime: Thursdays – Join in person at 5:00 PM for food and connection, or join virtually at 5:30 PM
The Sweetgrass Gathering Circle is a weekly hybrid peer support group for Indigenous adults actively engaged in recovery. Each session opens in a good way—with smudging, food, and community—and offers a safe, supportive space to build wellness, identity, and resilience.
Through a mix of cultural teachings, creative expression, group discussion, and meaningful connection, participants explore topics such as the Seven Grandfathers Teachings, Miikaans (Stages of Life), emotional awareness, gratitude, healthy boundaries, and cultural crafting.
Whether you’ve been part of WMS, ASEC, AA, or other recovery programs, this circle offers a space to stay grounded in recovery through culture and community.

Quilling for Beginners
2025-08-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-05 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-12 10:00 - 12:00 | ON
**NOTICE: DATE CHANGE from August 15th to August 22nd**
Join Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin’s Community Health Team to learn how to harvest porcupine quills, clean, prep & dye quills and learn basic quilling stitches with Chris Warner!
We will meet every Friday for 4-weeks starting August 22, 2025 from 10:00am-12:00pm in Orillia.
Location will be shared after registration!
Click here to register: https://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50382956/Quilling-for-Beginners-Workshop
If you have any questions, please email Courtney at cthomas@banac.on.ca

Naakshik Aniibiishaaboo
2025-09-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-23 18:00 - 20:00 | 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia (Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Match Hub), 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 4T8, Canada
Join us for a 6-Week Herbal Tea Workshop where we explore the healing art of plant medicine. This 2 hour series is aimed at educating participants on the natural healing properties of herbs through the preparation and use of medicinal teas.

Starts: August 19th Day and Time: Tuesdays @ 6 PM Location: Orillia
WEEK ONE: Sleep, Relaxation & Stress Relief
WEEK TWO: Immune Support & Cold/Flu Relief
WEEK THREE: Anti-Inflammatory & Pain Relief
WEEK FOUR: Digestive Health & Bloating Relief
WEEK FIVE: Heart & Circulatory Health
WEEK SIX: Detox, Liver & Kidney Support
Each week, you’ll: Learn about traditional + medicinal herbs Blend and brew your own herbal teas Take home samples and DIY recipes!
Please click on this link to register. Naakshik Aniibiishaaboo Evening Tea
Thanks a bunch!

Ongoing Red Road to Recovery Peer Support Group
2025-09-02 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-09-16 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-09-23 18:30 - 20:30 | ON
If you have attended Red Road to Recovery series in the past and are looking for continued connection.
This ongoing peer support group meets weekly over zoom, Tuesdays from 630-830pm.
A peer support group is a safe space where community members with similar experiences can connect, share, and support each other.
This peer support group can help you feel less alone in your recovery, learn from others, and maintain hope.
Register by emailing Steve for zoom access.

Every Child Matters (Orange Shirt Day) Flag Raising Ceremony
2025-09-03 13:00 - 14:00 | 70 Collier St, Barrie ON, Canada
Everyone is welcome, please share broadly 🙂
No registration required.
In the courtyard at City Hall in Barrie.

Red Road to Recovery at GBNFC
2025-09-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre, 175 Yonge St., Midland, Ontario, Canada
A 10-week program that uses the Medicine Wheel as a teaching tool and our Indigenous approach to healing to address the Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual aspects of addiction and mental health recovery.

TH Esstin Mcleod Session's (Medicine Healer)
2025-09-15 09:00 - 16:00 | ON
Traditional Healing Session with Esstin Mcleod in Mamaway Wiidokdaadwins Match Hub Barrie (in-person)
Please contact our clinic closest to you to make a referral
Barrie Clinic Location
125 Bell Farm Rd, Suite 200
Hours: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Phone: 705-721-9554
Fax: 855-941-2529
Orillia Clinic Location
210 Memorial Ave, Unit 112A&B
Hours: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Phone: 705-259-9520
Fax: 855-941-2531
A little more about Esstin;
Esstin (Niganobe), Anishinaabe Kwe of the Mississaugi First Nations in Mid-Northern Ontario, is a Healer / Medicine Practitioner. Esstin provides spiritual consultation and remedies to Native Health Care Centers in northern Ontario.
As Medicine Practitioner, Esstin provides plant-based remedies and instruction. As a Healer, Esstin works with spiritual energies and is influenced by ceremonial practices and Anishinaabe Elders and teachers. Throughout her 30 years of study and experience, Esstin developed a “Anishinaabe Wisdom Healing,” workshop series. Esstin facilitates Anishinaabe Women’s retreats and healing workshops utilizing the Medicine Wheel as an approach to holistic health and healing.
Please prepare your tobacco ahead of time to provide to Esstin Mcleod at your session.
Due to high demand, we ask that you please call if you have to cancel your appointment so others on the waitlist can see Esstin. Miigwech for your understanding.

TH Esstin Mcleod Session's (Medicine Healer)
2025-09-16 09:00 - 16:00 | ON
Traditional Healing Session with Esstin Mcleod in Mamaway Wiidokdaadwins Match Hub Orillia (in-person)
Please contact our clinic closest to you to make a referral
Barrie Clinic Location
125 Bell Farm Rd, Suite 200
Hours: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Phone: 705-721-9554
Fax: 855-941-2529
Orillia Clinic Location
210 Memorial Ave, Unit 112A&B
Hours: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Phone: 705-259-9520
Fax: 855-941-2531
A little more about Esstin;
Esstin (Niganobe), Anishinaabe Kwe of the Mississaugi First Nations in Mid-Northern Ontario, is a Healer / Medicine Practitioner. Esstin provides spiritual consultation and remedies to Native Health Care Centers in northern Ontario.
As Medicine Practitioner, Esstin provides plant-based remedies and instruction. As a Healer, Esstin works with spiritual energies and is influenced by ceremonial practices and Anishinaabe Elders and teachers. Throughout her 30 years of study and experience, Esstin developed a “Anishinaabe Wisdom Healing,” workshop series. Esstin facilitates Anishinaabe Women’s retreats and healing workshops utilizing the Medicine Wheel as an approach to holistic health and healing.
Please prepare your tobacco ahead of time to provide to Esstin Mcleod at your session.
Due to high demand, we ask that you please call if you have to cancel your appointment so others on the waitlist can see Esstin. Miigwech for your understanding.

Moon Lodge with Grandmother Renee & Sarah Connors
2025-09-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Microsoft Teams
Monthly virtual Moon Lodge is shifting gears a little bit this fiscal.
It will still be a safe place for women to come together to share their life experiences and embrace the teachings offered by Grandmother Renee and the knowledge shared by Sarah Connors, Naturopath & Indigenous Doula. And it will continue to occur the Third Tuesday of every month, 1-3pm.
Next year, we will be aligning our Moon Teachings with some life cycle wheel teachings. What this means is, we will focus on different age groups each month (some for 2 months because there has been a lot of requests for support in some topics discussed previously in those age groups). This will provide an opportunity for all ages to join us and learn more about some ways they can incorporate these tools and teachings to live the good life in all stages along our journey.
Grandmother Renee calls this “Life Stages Through the Moon Cycles”.
Ongoing until Dec 2025
We meet monthly over Microsoft Teams, email Lianne to receive the link.
Please fill in the registration link below:
Moon Lodge Registration 2025

FULL-Mino Miijim "Good Food" Roots of Wellness Series
2025-09-17 13:00 - 15:00 | 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia (Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Match Hub), 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 4T8, Canada
Mino Miijim “Good Food” Roots of Wellness Series:
This session with provide information about living with diabetes/ preventing diabetes, and how to nourish the body through food. Each session will focus on a specific topic, followed by a cooking session where you will prepare food to take home and enjoy.
Part 2:
Topic: Importance of Cardiovascular health and preparing heart-healthy foods
Registration is recommended to allow for the planning needed in purchasing food
Scan the QR code in poster above or follow link below or at the bottom of this page under (website) to register
https://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50373133/Mino-Miijim-Roots-of-wellness-series
(This is a four part series and you can attend any of the sessions. Each session date will need to be registered individually. Part 3 and 4 will be held in October and November with registration to come at a later date)
If you have any questions, please email Christal at cchampagne@banac.on.ca

Mens Ribbon Shirt Workshop Sept 18th 2025 Midland
2025-09-18 10:00 - 17:00 | ON
Hello all. We are having a ribbon shirt workshop Thursday September 18th at 10:00 am in Midland.

Please register for this by clicking on this registration link: Mens Ribbon Shirt Workshops Sept 18 2025

Space is limited.

If you have any questions please email me at belliott@banac.on.ca

Thanks a bunch!

Womans Ribbon Skirt Workshop Sept 24
2025-09-24 09:30 - 17:00 | 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia (Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Match Hub), 110 Matchedash Street N, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 4T8, Canada
Hello all. We are having a ribbon skirt workshop on Wednesday September 24th at 9:30 A.M. in Orillia.
Please register for this event by clicking on this link: Ribbon Skirt Workshop Sept 24
Space is limited
If you have any questions please email Courtney at cthomas@banac.on.ca
