About Matthew

I’m Matthew J. Dyck—a Métis writer with Cree and Stoney Nakoda ancestry, storyteller, facilitator, advocate, and practitioner.

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I write and work with people who are carrying difficult things: workplace harm, conflict, grief, uncertainty, exhaustion, questions of identity and belonging, and the strain of trying to stay human inside systems that can ask too much.

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This site is a place for writing, field notes, workshops, and conversations about cultural safety, relationship, dignity, contemplative practice, and the small choices that shape how we move through hard weather.

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I am interested in practical questions more than polished answers. What helps a person stay close to what is real when fear gets loud? How do we name harm without becoming trapped inside it? What does repair ask of us? How do we build workplaces and relationships that leave less damage behind?

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I approach this work as a learner, not someone standing outside the mess. My perspective is shaped by lived experience, relationship, Indigenous ways of knowing, and years of work in cultural safety, anti-racism, organizational change, and human-centred practice.

I am also the author of the forthcoming Use the Whole Buffalo: How to Meet What Hurts Without Wasting the Pain—a practical book about working with the mind in the middle of ordinary hard days.

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You are welcome to read, take what is useful, and get in touch if there is a conversation, workshop, or piece of work we might undertake together.

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