This workshop is not just about reclaiming ancestral knowledge. It’s about healing the ancestral trauma that separated many of us from that knowledge in the first place. For good, survival-based reasons, many BIPOC communities were taught to fear the land: to see it as dangerous, to stay away from it, to avoid it. The forest was an escape, but also a threat. This workshop invites us to unlearn that fear together, in safety, with the people next to us, and to re-integrate into relationships with land and each other.

Part of Ecological Belonging, a free workshop series to reconnect with the land and find wellness in nature with Visiting-Teacher Naturalist Brooke Bridges.