Culture Shock Webinar – Designing With Respect: Applying the Indigenous Communications Toolkit

In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore how designers can use the Indigenous Communications Toolkit from Design de Plume to strengthen cultural respect, equity and clarity in their visual and verbal messaging. Whether you’re creating websites, campaigns, social content or daily internal comms, this session gives you practical tools and guiding principles to help you communicate in ways that honour Indigenous communities.

You’ll move from hesitation to reflection and from reflection to purposeful action. Along the way, we’ll explore evolving language, recognize common pitfalls and learn how to center respectful collaboration in your design process.

Join us to discover how inclusive design builds trust, respect and lasting relationships.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify evolving or sensitive terminology and phrasing when communicating with Indigenous communities
• Integrate respectful consultation practices into process workflows
• Apply key guidelines from the Toolkit to actual design and copy decisions

About Meggan van Harten RGD

Meggan is a Certified RGD and the Co-CEO for Design de Plume, an Indigenous and women-owned creative agency that designs inclusive and accessible solutions that resonate. She brings equity and accessibility to the heart of the business. Bringing a decade of experience in design to her leadership role, Meggan sets the vision for projects, establishes standards and builds both business and client strategies that lead to greater impact. She recognizes the value that accessibility work creates for people and projects, with proven results. She provides insight and implementation guidance for content writers, designers and organizations looking to adopt accessibility into their core and ensures that compliance standards and real-world experience align in unique and innovative ways.