a focus in healing and relaxing with beading, moccasin making, and meditation workshops. One of the facilitators for the self-care workshops was Amanda Kennedy, who was also a volunteer for the event. Kennedy did meditation workshops for the attendees, reminding them to take that time for themselves and to calm their minds. She says it was a great learning experience for her, as she mostly works with children and youth. “It was a good learning experience to see that they too struggle with being in leadership and they’re humans, and a lot of times we look at chief and council we’re disconnected from them; we don’t feel they’re a part of who we are,” said Kennedy. She also said there is a difference between this summit and other summits she has been to. “When you go to different summits, especially with politics, it’s not an environment where they’re all trying to throw ideas around and work together as teams,” said Kennedy. “It was really nice to see how the women would do it, because it was all women; it was so much nurturing. They were listening to each other and working together and it was just awesome to see that.” She said her meditation workshop was so popular that by the second day she had “a lot of the chiefs pretty much running” to get to her workshop. “The way they were working together and collaborating with each other,” said Kennedy, “I feel like that is how we need to be doing things, giving everyone a voice and listening to everything they have to say and working together as a team as opposed to just trying to push our own opinions and going forward with our own agenda.” SUMMER/WINTER 2018/19 – Chiefs of Ontario Advocate magazine l 73