Everything Is Ceremony: Creating Hands-On, Adjacent Therapies of Indigenous Artistry and Relating
You are invited to choose your path to the berry patch by identifying and sourcing the resources and pathways that will help your specific community ecosystem flourish, for safer campuses for everyone.
When building the ecosystem of resources, don’t overlook the power of healing that on-the-land education and practising artisan skills can provide. Jewell explores these two practices in this next video.
Reflection Questions
- Are there any on-the-land educational programs at your institution or in the community?
- How can you begin developing a relationship with people involved in this type of learning?
- Are there ways you can support and help grow these opportunities?
- What spaces, places, and experiences in or around your post-secondary institution can you engage in to deepen your own relationship with the territory?
- Consider organizing regular meetings, class lectures, or walk-and-talk peer support sessions with intentional time spent finding your place within nature.
- What artisan skills are practised at local Indigenous communities in your region?
- Can you develop relationships with practitioners and offer them paid opportunities to teach at your institution?
- Can you support First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists by purchasing and displaying their work at your institution and at home?
- If you’re an instructor, how can you empower learners to present alternative forms of assessments that showcase their personal growth and expression? For example, beadwork, weaving, writing a play or poem, painting, or collage could all be used as alternate forms of assessment.
