b'Photos courtesy of Clan Mothers Healing Village.COMMITTED COLLABORATIONCommunal healing village project highlights Indigenous teachings and valuesBy Matthew BradfordA home for healing, Indigenous teachings and communityrecover. Through this project, the organization will provide an connections will soon take root along Lake Winnipeg. Nowopportunity to create personal transformation for sustainable in its early stages of development, the Clan Mothers Healingchange through Indigenous-led solutions.Village and Knowledge Centre will introduce a restorativeThe communal village is being developed on land donated haven for Indigenous women and girls along 130 acres ofby 11 Congregations of Religious Sisters and coordinated by forest near Victoria Beach in Belair.Rseau Compassion Network. The project will comprise a According to Clan Mothers, the Village will provide a nurturingknowledge centre, a longhouse cabin for group gatherings and healing environment for sexually exploited women, girls,and healing, one- and two-bedroom cabins, sweat lodges, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people to begin to heal andceremonial grounds and accommodations for Elders and Knowledge Keepers. Within this village, women who are Photo of the Clan Mothers team. healing from multi-generational trauma or sexual violence will have the chance to receive guidance, teachings and support from those who have recovered from similar situations, while undergoing personal growth through programming, training and social enterprise opportunities.The concept of a Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre was born from over 20 years of Indigenous land-based healing gatherings for women, organized in rural Manitoba by Grandmothers Turtle Lodge, says the women-led organization. During that time, it became evident that living within a supportive community enhances opportunities for sexually exploited women to learn from those whohave recovered.SHAPING THE VISIONThe Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre was designed by Prairie Architects. Since 2016, the Winnipeg-based firm has worked in close collaboration with Clan Mothers through ceremony and a collective design process to envision a temporary home for at-risk women that connects 48 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'