Award-Winning Curriculum, Courses & Certificate Program
Through constant revision, practitioner feedback, and tribal vetting, we’ve become the nation’s leading provider of professional tribal relations trainings.
More than 730 professionals from 510+ organizations have transformed their work with tribes using tools in our courses.
Our place-based, regional workshops immerse participants in remarkable settings for hands-on, experiential learning in a positive collaborative space.
Our live online workshops build an engaging, reflective, comfortable forum for delivering transformative tools and processes.
We customize in-house workshops for groups focusing on special topics and needs—on location, remote, or hybrid. Please reach out to B.B. at: training@seventhsovereign.com to learn more.
Our Professional Certificate in Tribal Relations is available to participants completing 40 hours of any regional, custom, or live online courses.
New in 2025
REVAMPED CURRICULUM: ONLINE and REGIONAL courses now refelct extensive revisions from tribal and practitioner feedback during 2024.
NEW COURSE: Doing Business with Tribes provides transformative insights, skills, systems, and planning tools unique for private sector professionals working with tribal governments, corporations, and other ‘arm-of-the-tribe’ enterprises.
ROLLING ENROLLMENT & GROUP RATES: Rolling enrolment throughout the year allows individuals and groups to purchase multi-course packages at lower rates than stand-alone, sporadic registration. This allows more flexibility for professionals accumulating 40 hours toward the Professional Certificate.
QUARTERLY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: Each quarter, all course participants are invited to a free, open discussion group hosted via Zoom. Professionals share about what’s working well, not-so well, and reflections on best-practices.
Regional Training Workshops
"This training gave me confidence that I can improve my interactions with the Tribes and some specific skills to do it,” wrote a participant.
“This gave me language and a framework for the things I’ve been trying to articulate to my co-workers about how to engage with Tribes,” wrote a participant.
“Our group wanted a knowledge base to improve interactions, and we got more… These workshops … helped us use systems and tools as well as new insights about tribes… Our staff benefited from more confidence and believing in their effective communication skills…” wrote a participant.
Regional Trainings are dynamic, collaborative, full-day sessions blending interactive lecture with scenarios-based team exercises. Curriculum is tribally-sourced and vetted. It emphasizes multi-tribal perspectives yielding inter-disciplinary skills and insights.
Take any combination of courses on the ‘Big 6’ Tribal Relations Topics:
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT;
DOING BUSINESS WITH TRIBES;
CULTURAL AWARENESS;
TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT 101;
TRIBAL CONSULTATION, or
NEGOTIATING WITH TRIBES.
2025 REGIONAL WORKSHOPS
SACRAMENTO: MAY 12-16 *WORKSHOP FULL* For wait list, please email B.B. at training@seventhsovereign.com
PHOENIX: JUNE 23-27. *WORKSHOP FULL* For wait list, please email B.B. at training@seventhsovereign.com
MISSOULA: SEPT. 29 - Oct. 3. Location: TBA. For more info, contact Gita at brigita@seventhsovereign.com
SEATTLE: OCT. 20-24. Location: Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery—Watershed Science Center.
COSTS: Single course = $484
GROUP RATES: Groups taking over 5 courses receive 10% discount; over 10 courses 15%.
Please email B.B. at training@seventhsovereign.com for more info.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Live Online Training Workshops
“I deeply appreciated learning to think from a totally different perspective about these issues,” wrote a participant. "I would highly recommend the class to any colleague interested in learning more about the nuances associated with tribal communities,” wrote a 2019 participant.
“The training was really great. I learned a lot, I liked the pace very much. There was a lot to learn—all of it was valuable to me. I took 12 pages of notes,” wrote a participant.
“I have worked with tribes most of my career and this was the first time a training could generate tangible risk & reward insights I can apply to my work. I took the most from the systems and adaptable formulas we used… which let us hone our specific work and relationships with tribes… not using a cookie-cutter kind of formula or list of knowledge checkboxes…” wrote a participant.
Hosted live on Zoom, these engaging, reflective, and hands-on workshops build on curriculum that is tribally-sourced and vetted. It emphasizes multi-tribal perspectives yielding inter-disciplinary skills and insights. Courses cover the 6 major Tribal Relations Topics:
AUTHENTIC LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
DOING BUSINESS WITH TRIBES;
TRIBE-SPECIFIC CULTURAL AWARENESS;
TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT 101;
TRIBAL CONSULTATION, and
NEGOTIATING WITH TRIBES.
2025 ONLINE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Unless otherwise noted * online courses run from 9 AM to NOON Mountain Time.
JUNE 2nd — 13th: *WORKSHOP FULL* For wait list, please email B.B. at training@seventhsovereign.com
Doing Business with Tribes: Mon. 2nd & Tue. 3rd.
Cultural Awareness: Wed. 4th & Thu. 5th.
Tribal Engagement 101: Fri. 6th & Mon. 9th.
Tribal Consultation: Tues. 10th & Wed. 11th.
Negotiating with Tribes: Thu. 12th & Fri. 13th.
SEPTEMBER 8th — 19th:
Doing Business with Tribes: Mon. 8th & Tue. 9th.
Cultural Awareness: Wed. 10th & Thu. 11th.
Tribal Engagement 101: Fri. 12th & Mon. 15th.
Tribal Consultation: Tue. 16th & Wed. 17th.
Negotiating with Tribes: Thu. 18th & Fri. 19th.
DECEMBER 1st — 12th:
Doing Business with Tribes: Mon. 1st & Tue. 2nd.
Cultural Awareness: Wed. 3rd & Thu. 4th.
Tribal Engagement 101: Fri. 5th & Mon 8th.
Tribal Consultation: Tue. 9th & Wed. 10th.
Negotiating with Tribes: Thu. 11th & Fri. 12nd.
COSTS: Single course = $315
GROUP RATES: Groups taking over 5 courses receive 10% discount; over 10 courses 15%.
Please email B.B. at training@seventhsovereign.com for more info.