𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕰𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙
Indigenous-led healing, training, and consulting practice grounded in trauma-informed, culturally rooted, and experiential approaches.
Founded by Essence Wandering Spirit, a Cree and Dene member of Salt River First Nation and Bachelor of Social Work graduate, the practice supports individuals, communities, and organizations through healing-centered programming, professional training, program development, community engagement, and organizational consulting.
Our work bridges personal healing and systems change supporting safety, self-trust, resilience, and cultural connection while helping organizations build more trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and healing-centered programs, policies, and environments.
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The Background & Vision
My work is rooted in trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and harm-reduction approaches, shaped by my identity as a Cree and Dene Indigenous woman and Chilena. At its core, my practice is about creating spaces that feel welcoming, creative, and real, where healing doesn’t feel heavy or clinical.
A key part of my work is Indigenizing spaces in ways that are respectful, inclusive, and grounded. This means centring relationship, story, presence, and collective care, while honouring culture as something living and adaptable.
Rather than traditional workshops where people sit and listen, I focus on doing the work together. My sessions are active, hands-on, and relational, offering practical tools for emotional regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and connection that participants can practice in the moment. Everything is guided with flexibility, choice, and care, so people can participate in ways that feel right for their bodies, abilities, and energy levels.
My vision is to make healing and life skills accessible and inclusive, meeting people exactly where they are at. I believe learning should adapt to people, not the other way around. When spaces honour different bodies, capacities, cultures, and lived experiences, healing becomes more natural, meaningful, and even fun.
Essence Wandering Spirit is a Cree and Dene Indigenous woman, a member of Salt River First Nation, and Chilena. She is a social worker, community facilitator, consultant, certified makeup artist, and founder of The Essence of Spirit. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Manitoba’s Inner City Social Work Program and brings more than seven years of experience across community-based, nonprofit, social-service, and culturally grounded settings.
Through The Essence of Spirit, Essence works at the intersection of Indigenous wellness, social work, community development, and systems transformation. Her practice is informed by Two-Eyed Seeing, biopsychosocial-spiritual perspectives, trauma-informed and harm-reduction approaches, anti-oppressive and decolonizing practice, psychoeducation, Indigenous relationality, and land-based healing.
Her work includes facilitation, community engagement, program development, organizational consultation, policy and practice review, culturally responsive service design, and capacity-building. She is particularly interested in strengthening programs and systems that serve Indigenous peoples and communities through approaches that centre cultural safety, self-determination, relational accountability, lived experience, and the social and structural determinants of health.
Essence also integrates culturally grounded and experiential approaches to wellness, including land-based programming, cedar baths, circle-based practice, creative expression, somatic awareness, and connection with Elders and Knowledge Keepers where appropriate and guided by cultural protocol.
Her work bridges micro, mezzo, and macro social work practice, connecting individual and collective healing with community development, organizational learning, advocacy, and systems change. At the core of The Essence of Spirit is a commitment to creating culturally meaningful, trauma-responsive, and healing-centred spaces, programs, and systems that support dignity, cultural continuity, community capacity, and collective wellbeing.
Testimonials
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and there is no greater satisfaction than knowing that they enjoy their outdoor space. Read on to see what they had to say about their experience working with our company. If you’d like to recommend our services, submit your feedback today!
𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓪 𝓐.
I loved your workshop. I felt so seen, what a great day!
𝓢𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓱𝓪 𝓖.
Your readings are so accurate, I love your energy!
𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓮 𝓗
Amazing!!! Self-love workshop I learnt so much it truly was a healing experience.