34 results for group: academics-researchers
Listen, Heart, Imagine, Reciprocate, Repeat!
In working towards rebuilding a connection with Land, let’s pay attention to some of the colonial-isms perpetuated while learning outdoors, and recalibrate through sound advice from more-than-humans, place, and Indigenous perspectives. This, of course, is in no way comprehensive! However, the session proposes hands-on activities, stories, and learnings, relating to the lost connection with Land, and the ability to do on the spot reflexivity. Participants will leave with ready-to-use lessons/activities featuring senses, imagination, and reciprocity, as well as a better understanding of little things we must ponder while outdoors.
Co-Conspiring In Partnership To Bring More Than One Story to the Outdoors
“The outdoors are not neutral”. “Social justice and environmental justice are siloed - we need to disrupt that”
Join a walking interactive story journey centred around how to work in a trusting partnership that links race and place in outdoor environmental education and climate justice. Follow a path of critical friendship and thought partners as they share the messiness and success of lifting joy and justice. Grounded in research and in practice, topics like reciprocity, GAP analysis, challenging conversations and impact will be shared through the lens of our shared experience doing this work in Ontario.
Each participant will walk ...
Climate education in teacher education: aims to means to curriculum and pedagogy
In this workshop, we will share findings from our second year of the Climate Education in Teacher Education (CETE) research project in the School of Education at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). We will then invite participants to engage in a mini workshop, connecting curriculum and pedagogy with aims and means of climate change education developed through our research. Participants will actively work through subject/discipline exemplars from British Columbia and Alberta curriculum in relation to teacher agency, highlighting outcomes from our two years of work.
Listening to the Land, Learning About the Self: A Relational Experience
With the intention of listening to the land and learning about self, this workshop weaves together literacy, drama, multiple learning styles, ecological awareness, art, mapping, and movement, thus enhancing overall well-being. Slowing pedagogy down, we foster a deep kinship with each other and with the land, awakening an awareness of the world in which we live, how it functions, how we fit into the larger community of life, and our role in the great story of the universe. Five outdoor experiences are offered for exploration: nature journals, sit spots, five senses poetry, find your way, and wild art.
Healing in Nature – Introducing The National Healing Forest Initiative
Breaking free of the walls which confine us can lead us in to nature, a space where we can heal, learn, and reconnect with ourselves and each other. The National Healing Forest Initiative founded by Patricia Stirbys, a Cowessess First Nation Lawyer, and Peter Croal, a Geological Consultant, after the findings of the 2015 Truth & Reconciliation Report, is an opportunity upon which you may wish to act as well. This workshop explores what and where the Healing Forests are and how they can fulfil a call to action towards reconciliation, addressing the 60's Scoop, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls, and Residential School Survivors and the ones ...
Pivoting in Place
Hoping to integrate nature and place-based learning into the curriculum meaningfully? Still trying to figure out where to start? In this workshop, Hillary will discuss her experiences developing place-based curricula in urban and non-urban settings highlighting the need to pivot based on what is accessible to educators and their students. Participants will also learn core routines depending on place and space and the importance of the emergent curriculum when looking to extend learning beyond the four walls of the classroom.
May We Be Peaceful: Inner Work for Systems Change
Cultivating our inner peace as educators and human beings is our greatest human technology. In alignment with Otto Scharmer’s Theory U for systems change; deep listening, deep terrain, and healing the gaps which disconnect us from our nature are our most promising means of re-connection. May our disruption become transformation as we move forward together into the future as architects of connection.
Through developing a practice of daily nature rituals with my Grade 2 class during challenging times, we intentionally attuned to our human nature on a daily basis. We sought refuge from the downward spiral among the leaves and changing seasons. We ...
Nature Journaling as a Tool for Connection & Conservation
How can using an arts-based practice of reflection create a stronger ecological identity? We will make time to slow down and intentionally connect deeper to place through the practice of nature journaling.
How can a stronger ecological identity strengthen the overall resiliency of teachers?
How can the products of art practice act as an invitation to fellow educators to strengthen their connection and understanding of their sense of place?
Tipi Teachings and Balanced Living
Putting up a full size tipi with participants - learning about the history and the significance of the tipi.
Creating Reciprocal Relationships in Nature: Spiritually, Emotionally, Physically & Mentally
Kwe', this 75-minute workshop is packed with activities to inspire educators to embrace the simplicity of land-based education. Introducing a respectful approach to spiritually reconnect with nature; learn what natural clues to look for if you get lost in the woods; and enjoy a memorable way to embrace the beauty of the forest. Including an exhilarating take on sit spots, help expand our ideas with a knowledge building circle and take home some valuable resources to start or inspire your own outdoor adventures. Join us for some exciting immersive experiences in nature that you can practice with your own students.
