Healing Ribbons

Healing Ribbons: The Art of Healing: Stories, Stitches, and the Sacred is a fashion show that is a culmination of over a year of creating and incorporating therapeutic talking circles, regalia making, fellowship meals, and traditional healing ceremonies to create culturally relevant healing opportunities for its participants. We use our talent and creativity to incorporate personal stories of grief, survival, and healing into our regalia.

Each individual designer has meticulously interwoven their own experiences as an Indigenous person healing through the creative process of their unique garment pieces and regalia. 

Healing Ribbons invites you to join us in an evening of discovering, showcasing, and healing through each participant's collection with our culturally relevant fashion show. Each designer has created regalia through a unique collective healing process that tells their story through color, fabric choice, ribbon placement, and construction. These experiences are integral to our healing process where being both seen and heard, can collectively heal all of us.

Healing Ribbons’ mission is to promote holistic well-being, healing, personal and economic empowerment, positive cultural identity, and cultural revitalization among intergenerational Indigenous Women and their families. 

The cornerstone of our efforts is to forge a path of renewal, create lasting positive change, promote equity, and build resilient communities for Indigenous women and their families by nurturing their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health to help foster a sense of balance and wholeness. We attempt to achieve this by creating safe and supportive spaces that facilitate healing journeys by reclaiming our cultural heritages through sewing, beading, sharing circles, wellness activities, ceremonies, healthy fellowship meals, and working together to create culturally significant clothing for use in traditional ceremonies, pow wows and community gatherings.