Indigenous-rooted healing practice

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.

Arlene Lehto, founder of Circle Bound Strategies, smiling beside a hand-painted paddle
Arlene LehtoFounder · Facilitator · Knowledge Keeper

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For organizations & schools

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Workshops, keynotes, and healing intensives for teams, schools, and organizations — trauma-informed, culturally grounded, shaped to your context.

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For individuals & communities

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Long-form stories rooted in lived experience, teaching tools, and audio reflections — open to all, no account needed.

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Arlene Lehto
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.

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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