
Sharon Naipaul B.R.S., J.D., Mediator, Trainer and Consultant. Call to the Ontario Bar, 2011.

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Strategic Workplace is deeply committed to the best that mediation has to offer – empowering participants to exercise their power of choice, and offering processes that are anti-oppressive, anti-hierarchical and anti-racist.
Our approach considers this to be the true neutrality, and allows us to be omni-partial – this means that rather than being on no one’s side, we are on everyone’s side. As well, we take a strengths-based approach to our work as our experience has shown us that this is an incredibly effective approach.
We always apply a trauma-informed lens to all of the work that we do and are very aware of the realities of institutional betrayal and how to avoid it. Our goal is to effect transformation and we are deeply committed to bringing peace to the workplace.
Our highest values in the work that we do are authenticity, compassion, empathy and “ahimsa” which is the yogic principle of being non-violent or doing no harm, helping workplaces to becomes places of psychological safety and sites of justice.
I would like to acknowledge that the majority of my work takes place on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinanaabe, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Mississauga and the Huron-Wendat, subject to Treaty 13 and 1805, with the languages of Mississauga/Eastern Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Anishinaabe traditionally spoken on these lands. I would also like to recognize that a land acknowledgement is only a first step in the process of reconciliation, not an end point. I encourage all settlers to take the free Indigenous History course offered through the University of Alberta as a next step.
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