Story, teaching, and healing
for communities and organizations
Circle Bound Strategies offers workshops, keynotes, teaching tools, and facilitated healing — grounded in lived experience and Indigenous ways of knowing. Serving communities across Canada.
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Who comes here
For organizations & schools
Bring this work to your community
Workshops, keynotes, and healing intensives for teams, schools, and organizations — trauma-informed, culturally grounded, shaped to your context.
Book a ConversationFor individuals & communities
Enter the StoryRoom
Long-form stories rooted in lived experience, teaching tools, and audio reflections — open to all, no account needed.
Enter StoryRoomNew initiative
The Maemae Reflection Storytelling Project
An Indigenous-led community arts initiative bringing together storytelling, creativity, and Indigenous knowledge to support healing, resilience, and cultural connection within First Nations communities — made possible through funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Starting in July 2026, Circle Bound Strategies will be sending a Community Partnership Package to organizations that express interest in becoming Founding Partners.
Arlene Lehto
Indigenous author & facilitator · Serving communities across Canada
Arlene's work focuses on healing through story, land-based practice, and intergenerational connection — blending traditional teachings with practical tools for communities and organizations.
About Arlene →What people say
I remember your patience and love of what you do as a teacher. Telling and showing the participants how to bring out their creativity to make it their own.
Karen Tom — Former Healing & Wellness Coordinator, Dryden Native Friendship Centre, Dryden, ON
Arlene came to do a workshop for my security team about grief, loss and trauma. Security work closely with the nurses and this workshop helped tremendously as they too suffer the loss and traumas that come to the nursing station. Arlene was a great facilitator and the workers learned a lot and were given a certificate at the end of the workshop.
Garylene Meekis — Former Health Director, Deer Lake First Nation