Minoway Sinclair

Minoway Sinclair is a mixed Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Cree) community facilitator, anti-colonial/decolonial consultant and educator. Minoway is Rainbow Trout Fish Clan, raised in Tkaronto on the shores of Niigaanii Gichigami. Their father is from St Peters Indian Settlement, formerly Peguis’ settlement in Treaty 1 territory, Manitoba, and their mother is a first-generation Settler and intergenerational Jewish holocaust survivor. 

Minoway holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Work (Toronto Metropolitan University) and a Master’s in Indigenous Governance (University of Victoria). Currently working towards a PhD in Social Work at the University of Victoria, Minoway is also the founder and facilitator of Liberty Moves Wellness, offering culture-based strength and wellness programming to Indigenous 2SLGBTQ and womxn-identified folks in-person and online, across Turtle Island. The focus in both their Master’s and Doctoral work centers on Indigenous conceptions of care, strength, and resurgence.

Minoway’s approach to working with young people flows from the belief that balance among all levels of our being is key to nurturing wellness in our lives and to manifesting our hopes and dreams into our reality. Minoway engages both Indigenous and mainstream understandings of health and wellbeing. Their approaches are trauma-informed and based in strengths, desires, and Anishinaabe culture and worldview.

Minoway specializes in supporting young people navigate areas such as identity, communication, neurodiversity, mental health and addictions and systemic barriers, as well as in developing strategies for connecting with and manifesting healthy goals.