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The Leadership of Helping with Rick McLean

The Leadership of Helping with Rick McLean

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Rick McLean is singer/songwriter who lives in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. He is Anishinaabe, Odawa Wolf Clan, with roots in Wikwemikong Manitoulin Island. Rick is also a professor of Indigenous Studies at Mohawk College, a traditional knowledge keeper, sweat lodge conductor and pipe carrier who graduated from Brock University. His facilitation and counselling work has been ongoing for 35 years and through McLean Consulting Group, Rick leads a team who bring diversity, equality, and cultural safety training to businesses and organizations across Turtle Island. In this episode, Rick and I talk about our theatrical roots, how fatherhood has shaped his healing and creative paths, the responsibility of sharing Indigenous wisdom, and the power of music to educate, unify and heal.

Find Rick at https://mcleanconsultinggroup.com/

Season one of Soft Opening is made possible with the support of the Niagara Falls Cultural Development Fund.

Co-Produced and Engineered By: Peter Haverkamp

Co-Produced and Hosted By: Catherine Skinner

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