I work with Indigenous communities, healthcare organizations, researchers and service providers to support culturally safer practice, community-based research, systems navigation and meaningful organizational change.
My work brings together healthcare experience, social work, Indigenous knowledge, research, facilitation and storytelling to help organizations better understand how systems are experienced by the people expected to navigate them.
An interactive workshop exploring how Indigenous peoples and families experience healthcare and other systems of care — and what organizations can do to move beyond awareness toward culturally safer, more relational practice.
Topics can include:
Indigenous experiences within healthcare and service systems
Cultural safety and anti-Indigenous racism
Trauma- and violence-informed practice
Systems navigation and family-centred care
Historical and contemporary barriers
Relational accountability
Practical organizational change
Consulting
Program, policy and systems review through an Indigenous health, cultural safety and family-centred lens
Training & Workshops
Interactive learning on Indigenous health, cultural safety, trauma, systems navigation and relational practice
Research
Qualitative research, literature reviews, interviews, thematic analysis and knowledge translation
Speaking & Facilitation
Keynotes, community engagement, focus groups, strategic sessions and facilitated dialogue
Danna Henderson, MSW, LPN, is an Indigenous health, research and systems consultant whose work brings together healthcare, social work, Indigenous knowledge, community-based research, facilitation and storytelling.
Her work focuses on helping organizations better understand how policies, programs and systems are experienced by Indigenous peoples and families — and how those systems can become more culturally safe, relational and responsive.
Available for consulting, training, research collaboration, facilitation and speaking engagements.