Poet. Storyteller. Educator
WORKSHOPS
Kahsenniyo offers interactive workshops that combine spoken word poetry, storytelling, and Indigenous teachings to explore complex social, cultural, and personal topics. Each workshop begins with poetry and narrative drawn from lived experience, creating an entry point for deeper conversation, reflection, and collective learning.
Participants are invited to engage with one another through dialogue, imagination, and shared exploration. These workshops are designed to create space for honesty, connection, and community while addressing topics such as identity, colonization, intergenerational trauma, resilience, and self-perception.
Kahsenniyo’s workshops are engaging, participatory, and adaptable for youth, community groups, educational institutions, and conferences.
Tending to Our Baskets
This workshop includes a spoken word poetry performance and draws on Haudenosaunee basket teachings to explore intergenerational trauma and the impacts of colonization.
Participants will collectively examine how the legacy of residential schools continues to affect our communities, nations, and ourselves today. Through guided discussion and reflection, the workshop creates space for participants to feel heard, supported, and more connected to one another while exploring pathways toward healing and understanding.
The Ancestors Have Prayed For You
In this workshop, Kahsenniyo combines poetry performance with storytelling drawn from her own life experiences and perseverance.
Participants are invited to bring to life and contextualize the power and strength of 7 generations teachings.
reflecting on the idea that we have been thought of, prayed for, and envisioned by our ancestors long before we arrived here. This workshop participants to consider their place within this continuum and the responsibilities we carry for future generations.
Coloniza Virus
This interactive workshop uses imagination, play, and creativity to explore complex issues affecting Indigenous communities. Participants are introduced to a scenario in which a “coloniza virus” spreads through communities like a zombie apocalypse.
Through this imaginative framework, participants examine real issues such as the justice system, land claims, education, child welfare, residential school legacy, family violence, governance, substance use, climate change, and lateral violence.
Working together, participants develop creative strategies and solutions to address these challenges. This workshop is especially effective for youth leadership development and community dialogue.