Thank you for hanging with us throughout Dig This Season 2! In this, the season’s final episode, Archaeologist Kay Jollymore talks with Jenny about mentorship!

From her start in the Cariboo area and throughout her career, Kay celebrates the generous people who made a difference in her career. She shares the value of becoming a mentor, how to be a good one, mentor, different kinds of mentors including the benefits of horizontal collegial mentorships.

Looking at in-the-field and in-the-office formal and ad-hoc training, Kay and Jenny discuss the responsibilities of both the mentor and mentee, but also how professional associations, businesses and clients can and should support and make space for this work. And the importance of mentorship to building capacity in First Nations communities to support their control of their own heritage materials.

No matter what, mentorship is deeply enriching, rewarding and so often, a joyful experience!

Celebrating our team this Gratitude Season, each Kleanza archaeologist chose to discuss a subject that was important to them. In Episode 21, Jenny talks with archaeologist Kevin Haugrud about women in archaeology!

Kevin shares his gratitude for all the women he has worked with and for, in his career. Touching on mining, oil and other industry platforms, camp culture, toxic masculinity, healthy company values and fatherhood, he observes that his mentors, colleagues and bosses have been primarily women.

Kevin talks about how their perspectives, teaching and management styles, values and priorities have impacted his work and personal life in such a positive way.

Gratitude Season continues with Episode 20. Today Jenny, and Kleanza archaeologist Manda Palmer gently, with compassion and vulnerability, have a very difficult but important discussion about harassment, abuse, rape, sexual assault, mental health and burnout in the practice of archaeology…and our obligation, to ourselves now, and to the next generation.

Again, it feels like we're just scratching the surface, but it’s a start. And we touch on a few solutions too. The content will be alarming to some, and we have included more detailed information in the Show Notes, as well as resources, should you need them. Most importantly, please take care of yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

To our dear listeners, this episode contains content that may be triggering. Please check the show notes for specific time code indicators and for a list of resources, should you need them. Most importantly, take care of yourself.

From 17:30 onward, the conversation centers around sensitive issues until the end of the episode.
Here are specific timecodes and information:

• 17:30 - begins the talk about sexual abuse, assault, rape, harassment and substance abuse
• 20:49 - talk about perpetrators of harassment
• 22:00 - talk about trauma and traumatic experience
• 24:15 - talk about power relationships and gender
• 25:29 - talk about signs of trauma and breaking cycles
• 26:28 - talk about trauma and somatic therapy
• 29:01 - talk about supporting younger generation
• 30:38 - talk about being trauma-informed
• 31:00 - talk about harassment and reporting
• 33:20 - talk about safety in industry culture and mental health
• 35:50 - talk about body autonomy
• 36:11 - talk about Indigenous trauma

RESOURCE LIST:

• Texting support for survivors: https://www.webelievesurvivors.ca/
• Talking on phone: crisis line 1-877-544-6424
• Vesta resource library: https://www.vestasit.com/resources-library/
• National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.HOPE (4673)
• RAINN online.rainn.org
• Crisis Resources https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/crisis-resources
• Resources by province: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
• https://cpa.ca/psychology-works-fact-sheet-workplace-burnout/
• https://www.traumacanada.org/resources/links-and-resources/
• https://www.nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/Final-Trauma-Informed-Culturally-Appropriate-Approaches-in-the-Workplace-Final.pdf