Join us at 6:00 pm EDT on April 8 for a presentation and discussion on Land-Centered Pedagogy with Dr. Mae Hey of Virginia Tech University. Registrants will receive an email prior to the session with information on how to participate. Renewal credit certificates are available for educators.

About her talk: Learning is defined as a change in behavior and it occurs best in the presence of healthy relationships between teachers and students. When we learn ‘science,’ we are actually learning to speak a new language—the language of Nature. Nature is the most patient and enduring teacher we will ever have and, because her rhythms were preexisting and absolute before our arrival, we must learn her ways to participate well within her established and complex systems to survive and thrive. Nature teaches her language, culture, and balanced re-generational ways on and in her own time to those who are able to see her lessons; the human teacher must learn ways to support that interaction and scaffold ways to gradually step back from the engagement until direct communication between Nature and student is seamless.

I would like to discuss a Land-centered learning program I have developed that helps those living on occupied land grow in knowledge, wellness, empowerment, community, and sustainability, especially during this past year of isolation and civil unrest. It is the life-giving energy, often associated with feminine Medicine, that allows for this teaching, learning, and healing.