Tansi, I’m Lee or Lee Mae Spence.
I’m an Ininiw, Red River Metis, European woman (she/her/Iskwew) from Churchill, Manitoba, Treaty 5 Territory where I was born and raised until planting roots in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory to further my education and sporting opportunities.
My Indigenous family names are Spence, McPherson, Wilson, Massan, Grey, Saunders, Breland, and Ross. My european family names are Reid, Hoss, Mann, Smith, Miller, McAllister, Baptiste, and Belly from Shetlands, Orkneys, Ireland, England, and Poland.
My relations come from northern Manitoba and Ontario and southern Manitoba (Churchill, York Factory, Fort Severn, Cooks Creek, and Dugald).
I’m often asked, what do you do?
The work I do is complex and simple.
I support people and organizations to remember who they are, to build and celebrate their strengths, gifts and responsibilities to create a more interconnected world.
I believe one of the first steps to collective liberation and empowerment is through ownership of the self and your ancestors.
To take responsibility for yourself and your healing.
The more you understand yourself, the more you can understand others, including all living beings - water, Mother Earth, animals, birds, to name a few.
I have a gift for bridging the liminal space between Indigenous ways of being and our ever-shifting present moments in western society. In other words, I weave a two eyed seeing approach into my services.
What services do I offer?
Consultation services such as advising, program development and facilitation
Group conscious connected breathwork
Wellness advocacy and facilitation
Together with the organization, we co-create space to discuss their vision, needs, resources and capacity to create a pathway on how to get there together.
Not-for-profit organizations, post secondary institutions and health service organizations invite me to guide them in great depth towards nurturing a better understanding of one another and unlearning colonized ways of being in their relationships and processes.
This in turn, creates an opportunity to be curious, kind and patient on this decolonizing embodied journey.
I am able to see and feel into the ways that groups may collaborate to provide unique support and consider individual needs, creating space that allows new ways of being and working to come through.
Together, we co-create a foundational connection with their own inner truth and spirit, my clients prepare to extend the work we do together beyond the personal and out into the community, upon which future generations may build and grow.
Notable Projects
Evolving Canada Day July 1st at The Forks with The Forks North Portage Partnership (Advising, Program Development and Facilitation).
Group Breathwork Series with the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program, Women’s Health Clinic (Advising and Breathwork Facilitation).
The Sport Physical Activity and Recreation in the Community (SPARC) certificate program with Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre and the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management (Advising, Program Development and Facilitation).
Bridging the Gap (Advising, Program Development, Facilitation and Recommendations).
Learn more about me on Nourishment, a space to journey through health and wellness, culture, capacity building and wholistic practices with curiosity and kindness to create opportunities to better understand one another.
Credentials
Conscious Connected Breathwork Teacher Training - Transcend Academy. 2023.
Intro to Trauma-Informed Care for Wellness Practitioners - Megan Soutar. 2022.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Certificate - Living Works. 2021
Teaching Sexuality: Facilitation Skills for Teachers and Youth Service Providers Certificate - Sexuality Education Resource Centre. 2018
Mental Health First Aid Certificate - Canadian Mental Health Association. 2013
Bachelor of Recreation Management and Community Development - University of Manitoba. 2008 - 2013
I help individuals and organizations remember who they are and the power they hold to create impactful + equitable change in the present moment for future generations and non-human kin.
Features + Interviews
‘Tethered to Creation’ feature in Sovereignty issue of SAY Magazine
Listen or read about Michelle and Lee Mae dig into what it means to unearth your story, heal from intergenerational and epigenetic trauma, navigate the natural cycles of death and rebirth, sobriety, shadow work, and more on The Twelfth House Podcast
Read Intergenerational Healing and Indigenous Reclamation on The Medicine Path Journal