Winter Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Educators Course

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Educators Course

January 19-28: 4 x 75 min online sessions

Join us for these engaging and insightful online sessions which will unpack the essential elements of Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults.

These will be facilitated by award-winning and best-selling Indigenous author, Monique Gray Smith, who adapted Robin Wall Kimmerer’s New York Times Best Selling book, Braiding Sweetgrass for a new generation of readers.

Robin Wall Kimmerer will join us for the first session of this course!

Monique & Robin will take us on a learning journey, exploring the 6 sections of the book and the chapters within each of them, including key content for classroom and school use.

In each session we will attend to:

1. Indigenous wisdom
2. Teaching of the Plants
3. Scientific Knowledge
4. History and Social and Emotional Wellness
5. The reflection questions, calls to action and beautiful illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt

Dates and Times:

4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern Time for 75 mins on Zoom on these dates:

1. Monday, January 19 
2. Wednesday, January 21
3. Monday, January 26
4. Wednesday, January 28

These will all be recorded, with the recordings made available to registrants the day after the live session for those who can’t attend live.

All registrants will receive:

1. 4 x virtual 75 min learning sessions with Monique Gray Smith! (includes time for reflection, discussion & Q&A)
2. Access to the recordings (available for up to 3 months following the sessions)
3. A Certificate of Completion

Your contribution: 

• Early Bird Registration: $120 ($30/session) until December 14 – please select this option if you are able to
• 50% Discounted Registration: $60 ($15/session) – please select this option if price is a barrier
• 25% discount for groups of 5 or more using this code at checkout: N945QEAF
• For groups of 10 or more, we can offer larger group discounts. Please check out the group rates here, and email programs@outdoorlearning.com for more info and to register.

Your course fee goes towards supporting our charity in covering the course costs, including ensuring that we compensate the course instructors adequately, and that we can continue to offer learning opportunities like these.

Facilitators:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin will be joining us for the first session of this course. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants which was adapted into Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Monique Gray Smith.

Robin is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She l is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She is also the acclaimed author of Gathering Moss, The Serviceberry and Bud Finds Her Gift.

Monique Gray Smith

Monique is an award winning Indigenous author and educator. In addition to Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, she has authored many other books including Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation and Dreaming Alongside and The Journey Forward.

Monique’s books are used to share wisdom, knowledge, hope and the important teaching that love is medicine. Monique is Cree and Scottish and has been sober and involved in her healing journey for over 33 years. She is well known for her storytelling, spirit of generosity and focus on resilience.

Monique has hosted this course several times and has received very positive feedback from participants each time! “Monique is an inspirational speaker. I will listen to these lectures a few more times to help me fully internalize these teachings. She helped me to fully realize I have been on the right path…. I am always learning and am grateful for every opportunity to learn more about Indigenous ways of being. Miigwetch.” – Course Participant