From grief to action: “Listening to the Land” workshop series in Ottawa (Kichi Sībī watershed) opens for registration
KAIROS is pleased to announce a new project for 2025 titled Listening to the Land. This project will take place from March 22 to July 5 in Ottawa (unceded Algonquin territory). Listening to the Land is an interactive workshop series that centers on human creativity and empathy as powerful tools to mitigate ecological crisis and repair essential relationships. The series meets at the confluence of the Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel teachings and the Work that Reconnects.
The medicine wheel is a powerful tool used by many First Nations and Indigenous communities to better connect with the natural world and to more deeply understand the knowledge, gifts, and teachings this world offers. The Anishinaabe medicine wheel teachings make us aware of the multiple dimensions of our own wellbeing and emboldens us to act respectfully and reciprocally in our relationships with the more-than-human world.
Over the past five decades, Joanna Macy, a scholar of Buddhism, General Systems Theory, and Deep Ecology has created a body of teachings and group work that helps people transform grief or paralysis in the face of ecological and social challenges and recognize our agency in shaping a more compassionate and ecologically sustainable world. This work, called the “Work That Reconnects” (WTR), brings a fresh way of seeing the world as our larger living body.
Through six transformative modules between March and early July, Listening to the Land will focus on the specific needs and challenges of people directly connected to the Kichi Sībī (Translation: Great River) also known as the Ottawa River watershed. The series will be co-facilitated by Melissa Hammell and Robin Macdonald.
If you live in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, consider joining the cohort and being part of this meaningful journey to strengthen resilience as we deepen our capacity to act for a just and sustainable world.
KAIROS is grateful to the support of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada for this project, and community partners including the Ottawa Riverkeeper and the Wabano Centre.
For more information and to register, please visit:
https://my.linkpod.site/L-to-L
