Full Circle – Enterprise Magazine

September 19, 2017

There is a prophesy shared among many First Nations — the Anishinaabe call it the Eighth Fire — that foretells the dawning of a new day when all people come together in a relationship of mutual respect based on the ancient knowledge of how we are all linked to one another and nature itself is the circle of life. Families will be reunited, old wounds healed and the process of decolonization will begin.

“You can feel that here at Urban Circle, that transformative power at work,” says Eleanor Thompson, a member of Assiniboine Credit Union (111,00 mem- bers, $4.4 billion in assets). The Urban Circle Training Centre is an astonishingly successful adult education centre in Winnipeg’s North End that Thompson, director of finance and development, co-founded in 1991. It’s a school that changes lives — hers included.

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