Need to Know
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Who is this course for?Everyone, Western Herbalists -
Course length (start & watch when you want)2 hours of video content -
Course credits2 CEUs / PDAs*Please note that many of the associations listed under ‘CEUs/PDAs’ do not formally pre-approve online courses for credits, and thus require the student to track their own online course hours to submit for approval for their annual CEU/PDA requirements.
CAIN, HCA
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ExtrasLifetime access · Certificate of completion
Meet your course instructor
Erynne Gilpin | PhD
Erynne Gilpin Ph.D is a mixed (Michif and Filipina/Celtic) community wellness researcher, educator and film-maker. Her Doctoral work, "Land as Body: Indigenous Women's Leadership, Wellness and Embodied Governance,” focused on the intersections of personal and collective wellness as it relates to land-relations. Currently, Erynne is an Assistant Professor at Royal Roads University in the school of Communications and Culture and Co-Director of the film-based production company UATÊ STORIED LEARNING. Her research and teaching commitments engage with land-based learning pedagogues, storied film-based education across cross-cultural and international settings.
Course description
Indigenous knowledge systems and local governance models uphold relational approaches to land-based practices such as medicinal harvesting, land-access and wellness initiatives. However, Indigenous knowledge systems, local authorities & leadership and integral knowledge holders across community settings have been undermined due to ongoing processes of colonization and land-theft. The continued leadership of Indigenous peoples around the world demonstrates cultural vitality, strength and brilliance.
The purpose of this course is to introduce learners to the practices and concepts of critical-self location as it relates to land-based wellness practices. Topics include: Critical Self-Location, Principles of Indigenous Land Protocols (4), Land-Based Wellness Practices, Water-based protocols, Territorial Acknowledgment.
This course intends to foster a greater appreciation for the strength and cultural continuity of Indigenous peoples, as well as a deepened understanding of the roles and responsibilities upheld by non-Indigenous communities on Indigenous Lands. A better understanding of critical self-location is meant to encourage students to consider their place within these relationships to self, to others, to Spirit, and to the Land.
You will learn about:
- The Practice of Territorial Acknowledgements: Locating your Practice
- Accountabilities and Solidarities to local Nations and Territories.
- Climate-action responses to uphold integrity and wellness of the planet.
- Centring Indigenous leadership in critical and intersectional approaches to land-based wellness practices.
- How knowledge incites a responsibility to protect the wellbeing of territories and local efforts of Indigenous cultural strength.
- The opportunity to breathe life into efforts to reconcile past wrongs and establish new relationships, based on respect, humility and reciprocity.
