Land-Based and Planetary Health Solutions

Theme Group 3 continues to address land-based and planetary health solutions. On-going monthly meetings (approximately 6 total meetings with all group members over Year 4, not including individual group meetings among separate partnerships) created space for collaboration, discussions, planning and executing of land-based learning and healing, Indigenous methodologies to conduct research, collect data and translate knowledges in community and academic forums. Elders and Knowledge Keepers continue to guide the work, and all members described ongoing and consistent relationships with their respective community partners. Ceremony is embedded in all the work, with a higher volume of community land-based gatherings in the spring and fall seasons, such as coming together for hunting camps, tree planting, canoeing, planting medicine gardens, and the development of greenhouses. One of the groups key outputs are consistent access to community based mental health services with Knowledge Keepers and Elders providing healing for families and individuals experiencing grief and racism. Additionally, the theme group continues ongoing student development activities including Indigenous students’ participation in the UN Women Knowledge Makers Program, focused on land-based learning, and food sovereignty and climate change research. Publications on environmental grief, and presentations to the provincial government in British Columbia about land-based learning and healing were also major outputs. 

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