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*All recordings are available for 60 days.
Dates: September 15, 22, & 29, 1-3 PM ET
Cost: $60 (Zoom Meeting, camera and audio enabled)
75 participant limit
*All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following the session. The recording will be available for 60 days.
The concept of Etuaptmumk, the Mi'kmaw term for Two-Eyed Seeing, has emerged as a promising framework for cross-cultural collaboration as non-Indigenous organizations increasingly seek to support Indigenous conservation leadership. Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall coined this term to describe an approach of bringing together the best of multiple knowledge systems to work toward a common goal.
Despite increasing calls to apply Two-Eyed Seeing in conservation partnerships, confusion exists around what it looks like in practice. This training aims to clarify that question, drawing from initiatives across Canada where the concept is being applied. It takes the form of three online workshops inspired by Elder Albert Marshall’s approach to co-learning, with an emphasis on collective sharing, reflection and responsibility for action, as well as opportunities for questions and dialogue.
To kick off this workshop series, participants will meet founding members of a partnership that successfully applied Two-Eyed Seeing. The Healing Place working group came together in 2020 to develop a community green space on the traditional territories of the Algonquin and Mohawk Nations in Eastern Ontario. What began as a simple tree plant supported by First Nations governments, a Conservation Authority, not-for-profits and a Crown Corporation catalyzed a deeper, more meaningful, step on the journey toward reconciliation between ourselves and the natural world. It resulted in an initiative whose impact exceeded everyone’s expectations and continues to grow to this day.
In this second session of the series, participants will be introduced to the key factors contributing to the success to Two-Eyed Seeing in conservation partnerships. Issues, concerns and opportunities for productive engagement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners will be explored. Participants will also be introduced to practical considerations for engaging with the framework of Two-Eyed Seeing through partnership.
In this third and final session, participants will have an opportunity to transform their key learnings into tangible plans for action from a Two-Eyed Seeing perspective, working together through live examples.
These workshops will be valuable to conservation practitioners looking to build and strengthen cross-cultural partnerships in their work.
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Joanna Jack is an environmental practitioner with 20+ years of experience working for government and not-for-profit organizations, over half of that working with and for First Nations peoples.
Thanks to the generosity of many knowledge keepers sharing their perspectives with her, as a person of settler ancestry, she embarked on a journey of unlearning. After witnessing challenges with implementation of Two-Eyed Seeing through partnerships, Joanna embarked on a Mitacs research project to better understand factors contributing to success, through the University of Guelph’s Masters of Conservation Leadership program. This workshop series is a product of that research.
Abraham Francis, Akwesasronon PhD Candidate, former Program Manager for the Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne.
Augusta Lipscombe, former communications and Stakeholder Relations Manager with Forests Ontario.
Chris Craig, member of Algonquins of Pikwakanagan, Senior Forestry Technician at South Nation Conservation.
John Sanna, Site Environmental Advisor Eastern Operations at Ontario Power Generation.
Ronda Boutz, Secretary Treasurer at South Nation Conservation.
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