Stories, practices, and conversations for hard weather.
Matthew J. Dyck is a Métis writer and facilitator working at the intersection of identity, belonging, story, mind, relationship, and practical ways of meeting difficult moments with more steadiness and care.
Matthew J. Dyck is a Métis writer with Cree and Stoney Nakoda ancestry, rooted in what is now called Treaty 6 territory. His work grows out of hard weather, questions of identity and belonging, and ongoing reconnection with family, culture, land, and community.
He writes and facilitates in plain language for people whose lives don’t fit tidy spiritual timelines — offering tools meant to be tested, adapted, and held in conversation with their own teachings, relationships, and responsibilities.
Uncertainty Is Not an Emergency: How to Handle Uncertainty
How to handle uncertainty when the mind rushes toward a worst-case story. A grounded reflection and small practice for staying close to what is real.
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Matthew offers practical, reflective workshops and facilitation for teams, helping professionals, community groups, educators, health-care staff, and values-aligned workplaces.
Buffalo Mind in Hard Weather
A practical workshop on thought storms, nervous-system weather, story, and steadiness.
- Trickster Mind and Buffalo Mind
- Recognizing stress without shame
- Practical tools for pausing and responding
- Frog, Tree, Eagle, and Buffalo as companions for breath, grounding, perspective, and next steps
- Leaving better tracks in difficult conversations and systems
Use the Whole Buffalo
A deeper training on meeting pain without multiplying harm.
- The difference between what happened and the story the mind adds
- Boundaries, poison grass, and unhelpful patterns
- Breath, grounding, perspective, repair, and herd practice
- Responsibility, relationship, and collective resilience
- Personal and collective next steps
Use the Whole Buffalo: How to Meet What Hurts Without Wasting the Pain
A practical, plain-language field guide for working with the mind you already have. It explores Trickster Mind and Buffalo Mind, meeting hard weather without adding unnecessary suffering, leaving better tracks, and remembering that no one is meant to carry every storm alone.
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