HIPOW-ED
Your Path: Courses & Programs
Here you’ll find short, focused lessons that blend Indigenous wisdom with modern education. Many are part of the Managing Director Program certification, but this page is perfect if you want a quick, stand‑alone learning session while exploring managing director training, business pathways, and leadership development for Indigenous educators, community leaders, and future stewards.
- Courses: Tailored for clear, step-by-step learning to build solid foundational skills.
- Programs: Focused on enrichment, practical experience, and shared community knowledge.
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HIPOW - ED’s seven goals work together to build a strong, living educational system for our community. Each goal focuses on a different part of learning. Together, they honor Indigenous heritage and language for learners of all ages to grow, lead, and give back.
Learners will better understand the basic patterns of Earth’s magnetic field and energy lines. This knowledge becomes a gentle doorway into how our bodies connect with the planetary bodies and the home we call Earth, and how these patterns quietly intermingle with all life on the planet.
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How Earth’s magnetic field quietly protects and sustains life
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Simple ideas about ley lines and energy pathways across the land
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How ancient stories and teachings hint at invisible patterns that touch all life on Earth
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Outcome: Learners will better understand the basic patterns of Earth’s magnetic field and energy lines. This knowledge becomes a gentle doorway into how our bodies connect with the planetary bodies and the home we call Earth, and how these patterns quietly intermingle with all life on the planet
Our Electric Body turns inward to the energy field within and around each person. Building on what you learned about Earth’s magnetic patterns, this course gently explores how the human body carries its own electric field, how stress and emotion can affect that field, and simple practices to ground, balance, and renew your energy in daily life.
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Noticing the electric field in and around your own body
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Seeing how stress, emotion, and environment can shift your energy
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Practicing simple grounding and balancing tools to reconnect with yourself and the Earth
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Outcome: Learners gain a clearer sense of their own electric field, notice how it responds to thoughts, feelings, and environments, and begin using simple grounding and balancing practices to support health, clarity, and connection with the Earth.
Every day your body not only uses energy but also creates it. This course starts from the awareness that plant, animal, and human life are all connected to Earth’s fields. You’ll explore simple ways to notice when your energy rises, drops, or scatters—and gentle practices to ground, reset, and move through the day with more clarity and care.
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Noticing how your energy shifts from morning to night, day after day
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Building simple grounding, breathing, and movement practices into your daily rhythm
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Treating daily energy care as a quiet act of respect for yourself, your community, and the Earth
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Book by Patti Dee
Energy Earth and Our Body Electric: Walking With‑in the Power of Life
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Outcome: Learners gain a clearer sense of their own electric field, notice how it responds to thoughts, feelings, and environments, and begin using simple grounding and balancing practices to support health, clarity, and connection with the Earth.
First Start Gardens is an introductory course that uses the garden as a living classroom. You’ll learn how planting, tending, and harvesting reflect Indigenous teachings about balance, responsibility, and reciprocity. This short lesson is perfect for new leaders, educators, and youth who want a simple, hands‑on way to connect land, food, and community care.
Basic Strategic Planning is a short, practical course that helps you turn big hopes for your community into clear, doable steps. You’ll learn how to set priorities, map simple action plans, and align your work with Indigenous values and local needs, so every decision supports long‑term healing, stability, and growth.
Indigenous Business Pathways is a guided learning journey for emerging and current Indigenous leaders who want to build sustainable, community‑centered enterprises. This course blends traditional knowledge with modern business tools to help you design projects, manage resources, and make decisions that honor your people, land, and language. Through stories, case studies, and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to plan, lead, and grow initiatives that strengthen your community’s economic and cultural future
“This course guides you step‑by‑step through the art of clay, from its ancient Indigenous roots to your own finished pieces. You’ll explore how clay has carried stories and ceremony. Chapter 1, learn to prepare and shape clay with skill and care. Chapter 2. Chapter 3, follow the full path from hand to kiln so your work is strong, safe, and ready to share.
Course 1: Beginning Dreamcatchers is a gentle first step into the world of dreamcatcher making. In this short course, you’ll explore where dreamcatchers come from, what they represent, and how to prepare yourself and your materials with care. It’s designed for beginners, families, and educators who want to start this craft in a respectful, grounded way
Outcome: Learners understand the ‘why’ behind dreamcatchers—their history, meaning, and responsibilities—and finish the course with a clear design idea, chosen materials, and the confidence to begin weaving their first dreamcatcher.
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Where dreamcatchers come from and what they mean
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Respectful use (culture, stories, and boundaries)
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Basic tools and materials and how to choose them
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Course Two: Building the Frame & Weaving the Web takes you from idea to a complete dreamcatcher. In this course, you’ll shape the hoop, plan your design, and follow clear, simple steps to weave the web so your first dreamcatcher feels strong, balanced, and truly your own.
Outcome: Learners finish this course with a fully woven dreamcatcher frame and web, plus the skills and confidence to repeat the process again and again
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Designing the shape and size of your dreamcatcher
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Learning the step‑by‑step pattern of the web
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Practicing steady hands and patience so your weaving feels calm, strong, and intentional
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Course Three: Feathers, Stones & Energy invites you to bring your dreamcatcher to life with meaning and beauty. In this course, you’ll explore how feathers, beads, crystals, and stones can reflect intention, story, and energy, and learn simple ways to choose and place them so your dreamcatcher feels balanced and alive.
Outcome: Learners finish this course with a fully decorated dreamcatcher and a clearer sense of how to match colors, materials, and energy to the purpose of each piece.
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Adding feathers, beads, crystals, and stones
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How these elements connect to energy and intention
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Making the look match the purpose
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Course Four: Blessing, Care & Everyday Use shows you how to live with your dreamcatcher in a good way. In this course, you’ll learn gentle practices for blessing and activating your piece, choosing where and how to hang it, and caring for it over time so it continues to support rest, protection, and intention. alive.
Outcome: Learners finish this course knowing how to respectfully bless, place, maintain, and repair their dreamcatchers so they stay meaningful and strong in daily life.
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Blessing/activating in a respectful way
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Where and how to hang
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How to maintain and repair
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Course Five: Dreamcatchers with Purpose & Teaching Others helps you move from making dreamcatchers just for yourself to creating them in service of others. In this course, you’ll explore how to design pieces for specific people, places, and intentions, and learn simple ways to guide youth, families, and groups through the making process.
Outcome: Learners finish this course able to create purpose‑driven dreamcatchers and to confidently lead others through a respectful, step‑by‑step dreamcatcher‑making experience.
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Making dreamcatchers for specific people, places, or purposes
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Sharing the process in simple steps so others can learn
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Using dreamcatcher‑making as a way to build connection, healing, and conversation in groups and families
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Course Six: Selling, Gifting & Advanced Craft is for makers who are ready to take their dreamcatchers to the next level. In this course, you’ll reflect on when and how to sell or gift your work in a good way, explore advanced design techniques, and imagine how your craft can support your role as an artist, teacher, or community leader.
Outcome: Learners finish this course with ideas for ethical selling and gifting, new advanced skills to refine their dreamcatchers, and a clearer vision for the future of their craft and practice.
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When and how to sell or gift in a good way
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Advanced techniques for “master” dreamcatchers
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Visioning the future of their craft and role as an artist/leader
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Book by Patti Dee
Weaving Dreams: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Personal Dreamcatcher
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Sustaining Our Communities: Indigenous Pathways to Long‑Term Wellbeing is a course for local leaders, families, and youth who want to protect and strengthen their home communities. Grounded in Indigenous values, this course explores how land care, shared resources, language, and culture all connect to true sustainability. Through stories, planning tools, and community projects, you’ll learn practical ways to build systems of support—so food, learning, safety, and leadership can grow from within the community for generations to come.
KeyStone: Awakening Indigenous Genius is the doorway course that stirs curiosity and hunger for deeper learning. It invites participants to question old limits, remember who they are, and see new paths for themselves, their families, and their nations. Blending story, reflection, and simple but powerful practices, this course “wakes up” the mind and spirit—so learners are ready to step into the full HIPOW pathway, build skills, and carry Indigenous wisdom into every part of community life.