Zaagi’idiwin, Mnaadendiwin: love, respect through the creation of new respect online Indigenous cultural safety program

There have been increasing calls for cultural safety training in recent years, but it is not a new concept. We outline the developmental process used to create an intensive online Indigenous cultural safety training led by Indigenous Peoples. We describe the process and framework developed with the Indigenous Content Committee for creating this online program that includes 24 hours of content, and the final course structure and administration. The objective of the cultural safety course was to address systemic anti-Indigenous racism with a focus on improving culturally sensitive communication, effective collaboration, and respectful community engagement among students, staff and faculty in medicine, nursing, social work, public health, and education. Evaluations of the course outcomes have been reported in detail elsewhere, but the course was positively received and participants demonstrated increased knowledge, understanding, and feelings of responsibility. The course design that resulted from this process was reported to be impactful on participants personally and academically, but it must be recognized that cultural safety is a lifelong journey and should not end here.