Since time immemorial First Nations People have inhabited the Land, tending to all matters of the Earth and her inhabitants in well and reverent ways.

Chantal, a biracial Anishinaabe Kwe of the Ojibway Nation, will lead an outdoor time of connection and discussion that includes story-telling, ancestral teachings, hands on experience with the lands, waters, and plants around us, and the process of courting and creating a sit spot.

Throughout the exploration we will discuss key important ways of being and acting, when working with the Earth and our plant kin, that include reciprocity, gratitude, reverence, authenticity, truth, honesty, and love. Additionally, we will discuss the ancestry that we share with our plant relatives and how we have become genetically interwoven with one another, despite not being of the same physical form.

Amidst the busy-ness of the world around us, this container will invite you into and hold you in a peaceful, calm, and truthful way. The space will usher you into returning within and finding the stillness required to truly connect to Self and the living world that surrounds you.

A fitting quote from a Potawotami woman named Robin Wall Kimmerer, states that, “The land knows you, even when you are lost.”