_Healing Groups

My Medicine Bundle:
Facilitated by FPJCM staff and Robin Sky (Onen’tó:kon Healing Lodge), My Medicine Bundle is our reoccurring eight-week group for adults of any gender (18+) who may be involved in the justice or youth protection system, coming out of treatment or detention centers, interested in relapse prevention, interested in prevention and/or wanting to learn more about themselves and their substance use.

Please contact the Center for more information on dates and registration.

SMART Recovery 
Joel LaBillois will be facilitating this group intended for people who are considering treatment in the future, who are involved in the justice system, who are coming out of therapy, and/or interested in prevention and learning more about themselves and their substance use and self-harming behaviours. The group is facilitated in English and runs once weekly for 8 weeks.

Please contact the Center for more information on dates and registration.

Land-based Activities

In collaboration with the Healing Lodge (Cedar and Gold), the First Peoples Justice Center of Montreal’s offers land-based activities such as Medicine Walks on Mont-Royal and a traditional trapping workshop in the forest. These two-day retreats are held at a hunting camp in the Reserve Faunique Papineau-Labelle with Huron-Wendat hunter and teacher Médérik Sioui. Participants escape the concrete jungle and go out on the land to learn about trapping / hunting, share stories and connect with themselves, each other and the land in a healthy way.