Education is empowering one another and it’s not to say how you should or should not do things. It is bringing people together and with great effort understanding what is on their mind, it is as simple as bringing people to the table and asking, “What questions and concerns are important to you and how can we enlighten and inspire your learning experience?”
Cannabis education and training will be an incessant evolution so including training centers as a part of our structure is essential in empowering each other. Training centers provide safe spaces where individuals are free and safe to learn, ask, and engage in healthy, positive education about cannabis. In these spaces we create a very much needed multi-functional center of cannabis learning. These centers are where many lightbulbs are turned on…. learning, ideas, solutions, conversation, strategy, sharing, enlightenment, and growth happen in these spaces.
- Tribal Leaders, Board of Directors, Regulatory Agency, Tribal Environmental, General Counsel, and others will all be on a continual journey full of cannabis enlightenment and education. Continual education, discussion, strategizing, and collaboration is of the upmost importance in making current and future decisions.
- Tribal member enrichment and enlightenment can be facilitated utilizing meetings, workshops, seminars, live demonstrations, lectures, and presentations. All present motivating and interactive experiences for tribal members and their communities. It creates valuable moments we love to spend with tribal community members, sharing and strengthening each other. These moments are synergistic and reciprocal as we may be providing the teaching, the amazing flipside of that is tribes and tribal members always teach us.
- Entrepreneurship-As we have seen with states legalizing the cannabis industry at various levels and legalities, entrepreneurship became a bustling, innovative, and important part of today’s cannabis industry. Without innovative and smart entrepreneurship, the industry could not be where it is today. Tribal members need spaces to collaborate, learn, ask questions, create, and share their ideas for entrepreneurship.
- Employee and staff training-Blue Star’s is committed to creating long-lasting and fulfilling relationships with our employees. It means investing in time and education to ensure that our staff are empowered with the most up-to-date knowledge and information allowing them to be successful, great decision makers, creative, collaborative, insightful, and aware and cognizant in the tribal nations and communities they work for.
Mentorships-Helping employees currently in the organization to reach their career potential and goals. Setting goals and pathways with our employees increases not only personal value but also increases their value to the tribal communities they serve in. Creating a plan, time and space for in-house training, external training, and certifications, returning or starting college courses all have a role in helping our staff to achieve their academic, career and personal goals and achievements.
Education for our employees helps to assure our staff that we are truly invested in their growth and opportunities. We are purposeful in providing employee training opportunities and development on a consistent basis. This helps us to achieve our goals in creating a workplace that affirms appreciation, job satisfaction, employee retention and longevity. We want our staff to be able to wake up every day excited to go to work and feel that they are truly appreciated and valued.
Internships/Colleges/Universities
We are excited and are buzzed for colleges, universities, community colleges, and other academia institutions who are rolling out cannabis college curriculums, undergraduate and graduate programs, and certifications. We are even more excited for the students to be able to enroll in a program that will help them get one step closer to their dream or passion in the cannabis industry. The educational opportunities continuously expand into more areas where cannabis is evolving and the need for professionals is great: horticulture, wellness/nutrition, medical sciences, veterinary sciences, athletic training, legal, compliance, information technology, among others.
Several tribal nations have colleges, universities, community colleges and other academia institutions within their tribal nations and may already have and teach cannabis curriculums. These are exciting times in the cannabis education evolution. We are looking forward to a future of collaboration, development, and implementation of positive, healthy, internships and other programs that help students achieve and fulfill their graduation or certification requirements and as tribal cannabis flourishes and as more tribal nations enter the tribal cannabis industry there will be an urgent and immediate need for additional cannabis professionals.
