Fairbanks Native Association

Native Wellness Institute

Native Youth Leadership Training

Agenda

May 21, 2018

8:30amOpening

Welcome, Prayer, Introductions, Why We’re Here, I2SP, Ice-breaker

9:00am Building Team

10:00amBreak

10:15amNative Wellness

NoonLunch

1:00pmTraditional Values

2:30pmBreak

2:45pmNative Leadership

4:30pmClosing

5:00pmAdjourn

May 22, 2018

8:30amOpening (Welcome, Prayer, Review, Check-in, Ice-breaker)

9:00amBuilding Team

10:00amBreak

10:15amBetter Understanding Unhealthy Behavior

NoonLunch

1:00pmHealing and Moving Forward

2:30pmBreak

2:45pmNative Leadership

4:30pmClosing

5:00pmAdjourn

May 23, 2018

8:30pmOpening (Welcome, Prayer, Review, Check-in, Ice-breaker)

9:00amBuilding Team

10:00amBreak

10:15amCulture and Spirituality

NoonLunch

1:00pmPower of Positive Thinking

2:30pmBreak

2:45pmI2SP

4:30pmClosing

5:00pmAdjourn

Facilitators:

From the Native Wellness Institute’s Indigenous 20-Something Project (I2SP), the two facilitators will be Jordan Cocker and Josh Cocker.

Jordan Cocker (Kiowa/Tongan)

Jordan is from the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma on the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservation and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has a master’s degree of Museum and Heritage Practice from Victoria University of Wellington as well as a Bachelor of Design from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Jordan is a wellness trainer, an artist, culture bearer and advocate for Native women. Over the years, her artwork and research have navigated the intersections between Native people and social, political and historic climates through a female lens. Jordan’s artwork has been exhibited at local, national and international institutions including the Auckland Art Museum, New Zealand Architecture Week, The Jacobson House and the Prague Quadrennial. She is a Project Coordinator for the Native Wellness Institute and co-leads the Indigenous 20 Something Project. Jordan has traveled to numerous tribal communities providing facilitation on Native youth leadership, healing, wellness and more.

Josh Cocker (Kiowa/Tongan)

Josh is from the Kiowa, or Ka’igwa people in Oklahoma and the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. He is a certified outdoor instructor and facilitator with an associate’s degree from Whitireia Polytechnic in Wellington, New Zealand. He has traveled extensively in the South Pacific for work and service including Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Australia. Most recently he has worked in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona as a trail walker, coordinator and trainer for an outdoor behavioral health foundation. From the age of 14, Josh was given a position in a military society of his tribe and trained as a youth leader to preserve and share traditional knowledge with his generation. He seeks to honor and share that knowledge with everyone. “My hope is that I can help reintroduce people from all walks of life to our first Mother in al her wisdom and beauty. I hope to inspire healing, harmony and connection through the use of passing of traditional skill in the outdoors.”