QVI Framework on Reconciliation
- 1. Copyright of Qooluun Ventures Inc. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. 1 QOOLUUN VENTURES for HAISLA by HAISLA December 1, 2016 The Qooluun model for trades and management accreditation is designed around the supply chain to take advantage of the economies of scale in opportunities that construction budgets offer that are not typically found in operational budgets. Legal instruments, strategic partnerships, First Nation Assessments, general employment, trades and management carousels, social innovation, and project management are the foundation to deliver a fully integrated project delivery platform. Cost for delivery is managed within the constraints of contract management. The model is called Legaix’s Legacy after our late uncle and board member who wanted to leave behind a better place. The legal instruments range from limited partnerships, joint ventures, and teaming agreements depending on the opportunity and risk elements. Strategic partnerships are alignments with organizations who bring expertise, resources, and help spread the risk. The First Nation assessments are a unique set of education and coaching systems designed to address the generational residential school impact to First Nations while operating in conjunction with a social innovation strategy. The historical impact of residential schools and modern constraints to learning, culture, and environment are tackled through a collaborative learning approach that is geared to First Nation culture and learning styles. The Qooluun Assessments are uniquely designed by a First Nation professional with a Master’s Degree in Education. The assessments focus on how First Nations learn and how to ladder the process into career path development, coaching through accreditation, work place survival, and proponent compliance. The assessments work seamlessly with the First Nation social innovation elements to effectively deal with difficult issues such as addictions, poverty, and skill deficiencies. Our trades and management systems are based on traditional knowledge supported by a high degree of academic structure and represent an expression of our modernized version of a trade and commerce regime that once served us for millennia. Where once our traditional method of training people to participate in the family/communal enterprise was based on hunter-gatherer apprenticeship techniques where observation, repetition, and dialogue were the tools for teaching roles and responsibilities. Today the Qooluun model articulates a modern context with fundamentals that address the technical and commercial requirements in today’s competitive environment based on grade 12 certification, academic-technical training, and exposure to career potential in the work environment so that individuals can remove their own barriers to success.
- 2. Copyright of Qooluun Ventures Inc. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. 2 The assessments and social innovation are offered at the individual level and ladder from general employment to both trades certification and management accreditation. The carousels allow our partners to provide a full range of exposure to career path development that is designed as individualized benefits through integrated project delivery. First Nation Social Innovation is a concept that is a range of programs designed to address historical social issues that represent major barriers to career path development. Displacement, Trauma, Academic Stranding, Chronic Unemployment, Poverty, Addictions, and Skill deficiencies are acknowledged through corporate policy. Program development is designed from policy. Implementation strategies are developed from policy. Implementation is delivered through the strategic partnerships. Another element of the management accreditation is the union of project management and traditional knowledge by way of cultural management systems. Project management is applied to execute and monitor & control implementation of the various systems. Project management is the foundation of reconciliation in respect to management accreditation because the standards and conventions of project management professionalism have equivalencies in culture based management systems. We apply inductive reasoning, deduction, and measurement metrics to assess the equivalencies within the framework of the five Project Management Domains, forty-seven Project processes, and ten Knowledge Areas to arrive at a place where the measurements can ladder into a structured approach to management degree completion. The proof of concept was completed in the Chemical Addiction Counseling Program which was a Joint Venture between the Gya’ Wa’ Tlaab Healing Center and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. The program was devised into 3 components: certificate, diploma, and structured degree. In the first phase the goal was to address the Accreditation Canada requirement of having Healing Center staff with the same qualification standards in a health funded sector. The objectives were to provide a structured approach to academic training in a community impacted by Residential School syndrome, allow the participants to stay at home among family support systems, remove the financial barriers, and change the learning environment. The lectures were changed from talking at students to collaborative learning with a strong base of Socratic Dialogue. The lessons were adapted to power points to support an oral-visual culture based learning style. Unlike residential schools, the participants had the family support structures around them because the courses were delivered in 8 week cycles over a period of 18 months. The Society raised $150,000. to cover the total cost of delivering the courses in the community. All of the ten participants passed the certificate program with flying colors with not one failure. The chemical addiction counseling training principles are being applied to the union of project management and cultural management system development as a framework on management and reconciliation. Steve Wilson Managing Partner Qooluun Ventures Inc.