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Indigenous Land-Based Learning Panel Keynote
Thursday May 8, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
Kinnear Centre
Join us for a dynamic and thought-provoking plenary panel discussion on land-based learning from diverse cultural perspectives. Our panelists, deeply engaged in this work, will explore the full spectrum of land-based learning, highlighting its key components and significance.
This discussion will challenge and inspire you to rethink the role of land-based learning within the broader landscape of outdoor learning. You will leave with questions to travel with and practical advice on how to engage with land-based learning in respectful and meaningful ways. Prepare to engage, reflect, and deepen your understanding of how learning from and with the land shapes education and community.
Speakers
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Dr. Sarah Brown

Mount Royal University
Sarah Brown is an Associate Professor at Mount Royal University, a contract instructor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an active adventure guide and instructor. Her passion is connecting people with the natural world through education, play and... Read More →
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Nicki Ferland

University of Manitoba
Nicki Ferland (she/they) is a two-spirit Métis mother, wife, aunty and helper. Her parents are both descended from scrip-bearing Métis families with ancestral roots in St. Vital and St-Boniface (Winnipeg), and Lorette, Manitoba. Nicki has a Master of Education in Indigenous Land-Based... Read More →
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Lindy Henderson

Kaa'Naa'Matay Wiigiiam (The Teaching Lodge)
Dr. Lindy Phelps-Henderson is the principal of a K-12 land-based school called Kaa'Naa'Matay Wiigiiam (The Teaching Lodge) on Washagamis Bay First Nation near Kenora, ON. For over twenty years Lindy worked with youth in the public school system as a classroom teacher, forest school... Read More →
Thursday May 8, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
Kinnear Centre
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