Truth, Reconciliation & Leadership: Building Culturally Responsive Organizations
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Program Dates: February 22 – 27, 2026
Application Deadline: November 18, 2025
This course takes a deeper dive into the kind of leadership authentic reconciliation work truly demands, broadening concepts of responsibility, relationships, and the real, ongoing work of structural systems change for those working in non-Indigenous led arts and culture organizations. Designed for emerging and experienced leaders who have already begun their journey with Truth and Reconciliation, this program offers the next step: moving from awareness into action.
Participants will explore how to embed reconciliation into the very architecture of their institutions, governance models, policies, and organizational culture using two-eyed seeing. Grounded in “Seven Wise Practices and Right Relations”, and guided by Indigenous knowledge holders, this immersive experience offers a space to reflect, reimagine and rebuild.
Participants will be offered practical tools to support long-term transformation rooted in humility, accountability, and institutional courage. This is a space for brave questions, honest conversations and collective learning. Sessions will be held in community, on the land, and in dialogue with those who have been leading this work for generations.
Program highlights
- Deepen Leadership Capacity for Reconciliation
- Apply Two-Eyed Seeing in Institutional Change
- Embed Reconciliation into Structural Systems
- Engage in land-based and community learning
- Strategies for long term transformation
- Foster brave conversations and collective learning
- Insights from the field: Meet CEOs
The program is designed to cater to arts and culture professionals working in organizations of any size and across any art form (visual arts, galleries, museums, theatre, dance, opera, film, music and literature).
This program is suited to those who are looking to build skills that will allow them to run effective organizations, build healthy and sustainable communities, and drive change, including:
- Indigenous, Canadian, and international artists
- Administrators, managers and directors
- Policymakers
- Creative producers
- Education and engagement specialists
- Community-based cultural workers in urban and rural settings
- Consultants
Funding is available to support participants.
For more information and to apply, visit banffcentre.ca.
