Land/ing is a vessel to tenderly embrace the healing voyage of nurturing relationships with the land and more-than-human world. It is a space to simultaneously honour the land and the process of landing in relationship with the Earth and all her human and more-than-human communities. Through the ideas and creative works shared from my particular reality as a white settler on Treaty 7 territory in Alberta, Canada, I endeavour to relationally live into my responsibility for healing. Contending with my shallow, settler-colonial roots, while simultaneously tending to my own physical, mental, and spiritual healing, I am growing a deeper relationship with the land on which I stand, and have sown the deep belief that healing our communities, the land, and myself are sacred, necessary, and interconnected journeys.

I humbly embrace this voyage with hopeful curiousity. I am not an expert, but carry with me the expertise of my own life, body, mind, heart, and spirit, alongside diverse experiences in community, environment and conservation, consulting, non-profit, food systems, and oil and gas. I also hold the privilege of higher education, leadership coaching, and learning through informal community programs and spaces. Collectively, my adventures and advantages, along with all my other lived experience, have gifted me knowledge, language, imagination, critical thought, and big, wild questions. My teachings have shown me those questions need to live relationally, so that as I nurture my relationship with land that I do not perpetuate settler colonialism, but rather, seek to uproot it and live more wholly and accountably within our beautiful socioecological system.

So welcome. Welcome to the messy and magical journey of land/ing into regenerative, just, and nourishing relationships with the land, oneself, and all the communities-both human and more-than-human-that we share our home with.

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