Doreen South, Wellness Consultant

An educator, healer, facilitator and counselor, Doreen has almost four decades of applied expertise across a range of human service areas with considerable experience with First Nations communities and government organizations. As a self-employed business woman, Doreen has an ongoing healing and counseling service for individuals, partners with other professionals on project teams and consults directly to communities and organizations.

Education & Certifications:

• Social Service Workers Program, Loyalist College/First Nations Technical Institute
• Competent Communicator/Competent Leader, Toastmasters International
• Mediation and Conciliation, St. Lawrence University, New York St.
• Conflict Management Skills for Women, Skill Path, Brantford
• Consumer/Board Training, Canadian Mental Health Association
• Self Employment Initiative, Casey, Wratten & Associates
• Leadership and Quality, Xerox Canada
• Strategies for Effective Listening, Xerox Canada
• Selling Skills, Xerox Canada
• Certified Traditional Healer, First Nations Technical Institute, Tyendinaga
• Ordained Minister, Temple of Peace Spiritual Church, Brantford
• Para-Normal Phenomena, Morris Pratt Institute USA

Volunteer Work:

I consider Volunteer work to be of great value.

• Rotary International, Cornwall Sunrise
• Fundraising: Rama Library; Cornwall Cancer Society, Parent Council Intermediate and HS, New Comers Club, Rotary, East Front PS, Cornwall Tourism, Parade of Nations
• Foster Child India, World Vision
• Regional District Health Council, Haldimand-Norfolk (H-N)
• Coordinating Committee to End Family Violence H-N (local, Prov. & Fed.)
• Neighbourhood Watch H-N
• Regional Children Services & Advisory Committee H-N
• TV & Radio Show Host, Simcoe
• Simcoe Woman's Shelter - Forms, building design, H-N
• Children's Aid Society - policy/process, H-N
• MC various events in Community i.e. Take Back the Night
• MC various events within employment socials

Facilitated Workshops:

Professional Development:

• Ministry of Attorney General - Team Building
• Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe Admin. Support Staff - Coping with Changing Times
• Conestoga College, Scarborough Professors & Dean - Stress Management
• Christian Professional Conference, Burlington Social Service Workers - Visualizing and Stress Management
• Seneca Nation of Indians, NY State Directors & Upper Management - Effective Listening (3-day workshop)
• Health & Social Services, Sagamok - On-going series including Reaching Consensus, Anger Management, Stress in the Workplace, Valuing Diversity...
• Wikwemikong Health Center ·Support Staff - Customer Service
• Jobs Ontario, Retraining Ctr., Cornwall Staff and Trainees- Management vs Leadership
• Holistic Practitioners, Regina Sk. Holistic Practitioners - Increasing Intuition, Trusting your Gut, Connecting with the Divine Source
• Cornwall Ontario - Seminars/workshop/retreat on Law of Attraction/Abundance
• Team Building
• Tyendinaga Day Care, Tyendinaga ·Staff & Management - Personality Profiling and Compatibility; Creating Consensus; Effective Meeting Agendas
• Woman's Shelter, Walpole Island ·Staff - Identifying, Setting and Holding Healthy Boundaries
• Head Start, Akwesasne, USA ·Staff & Management Staff & Management- Working Together: Being Heard and Understood

Community Wellness

• Six Nations Birthing Center, Six Nations - Architectural changes; talking circles, healing circles
• Diabetes Association, Six Nations Staff & Community at Birthing Center - visualization and stress reduction
• Pine Tree Friendship Center, Brantford ·Staff & Community- communication, talking circles, holistic counseling
• Men's & Women's Wellness Conferences, Tyendinaga, Akwesasne ·Community - holistic counseling
• Health and Community and Social Services, Akwesasne Staff & Management - Building a 10 year plan
• Tenhatikonhsatontye Enhatinakera'te' - The Future Generations Will Be Born - Honouring the Client

Training

• Xerox Canada Scheduling Nationwide - created screens/help screens for scheduling nation wide, train end users
• Casey Wratten & Associates, Brantford - subcontract on self confidence for new entrepreneurs
• St. Joseph's Medical Ctr., Blind River Staff - touch and wellness

Teacher

• Fanshawe College, Simcoe - Using our personal energy; Effective Listening
• Law of Abundance, Stepping into Spirit
• Various independently designed & delivered workshops

Consultant/Facilitation

• Igniting the Power Within, Prior Learning Assessment, Steering Committee, Winnipeg Manitoba - consulting, facilitating, counseling
• Seneca Nation of Indians, New York State - consulting, mediating
• Health Canada & Assembly of First Nations - Ending Native Youth Suicide- Task group reporting to National Chief of Assembly of First Nations and Health Minister Canada
• Akwesasne Mohawk School Board - Support/counseling for Staff and Students

Mediation/Conciliation

• Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
• Seneca Nation of Indians
• Rainbow Lodge, Wikwemikong

Holistic Counseling

• Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Board of Education - Staff and Students
• Woman's Prison, Kitchener - Inmates
• 11 Ojibway Communities, Ontario - Staff and Community
• 3 Mohawk Communities, Ontario - Staff and Community
• 2 Seneca Communities, NY State - Staff and Community
• Nunavut· (long distance consultations)
• Non-Native Communities, Ontario, NY State, Saskatchewan
• Long distance telephone consultations in England, New Zealand, South Africa and within North America
• Rama First nations - independent and in co-operation with Community & Social Services

Partnering

• With Addictions, Mental Health, Traditional Healer within First Nation Communities