Students are important team members in research, contributing lived experiences, knowledge, and unique perspectives. The Indigenous Health Promotion & Cultural Safety Team includes Elder Advisors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and student trainees, and health providers. The Team works with urban Indigenous Friendship and Métis Centre communities to co-develop culturally safe, respectful, non-racist, wholistic health and wellness programs and policy change that benefit all generations. The Team provides support through that fosters learning and honours student strengths to increase confidence, trust, communication for safety and overall well-being. Current projects include co-developing, co-delivering, and co-evaluating culturally relevant ways to include Traditional and Western approaches to well-being within urban Indigenous communities in the British Columbia Interior. Student trainees complete a comprehensive community engagement and research orientation and receive ongoing training and mentorship to support individualized learning and goals. Examples of learning include workshops and online training modules on ethics, sex and gender, Indigenous Methodologies, cultural safety, unconscious bias, meeting facilitation, and knowledge translation activities. Experiential learning is critical in working with communities, building relationships, learning, and following local community and university ethics and protocols, and maintaining culturally safe environments. Students are able to apply learnings within future research and educational experiences. We share our journey of a successful Indigenous health research student mentorship program, grounded in cultural safety, focused on individualized learning plans and goals, community engagement, and support from Elders and community and university research team members that is central to creating positive experiences and teachings for future generations of research leaders.