We recently had a community story project, a residential school project that we conducted in Kugaaruk, Nunavut. One of the things we based it on was that we build resilience through expression through art and culture. We heal through expressing ourselves in different ways.
What I've taken away from that particular experience is that people are far more likely to be involved if it's fun, even if it's a difficult topic. Healing can be very painful, but helping each other should be a fun activity.
So anything we try to do is done through a lens of building resilience and also of healing through levity. It's one of the only ways that we survive—and continue to do our work every day, too.
Thank you.