An Anthology of the Anthropocene

Dialogue One

REGAINING OUR GOOD HEARTS:
The Role of Emotional Competency in Healing Our World

Thurs, September 19, 2024
@Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
6:30pm Doors open with beverages and light fare provided
7-9:00pm Round table discussion follow by community inquiry
Tickets Sliding scale $5-20/person
Event contact jodi@weareriver.earth, 867.332.7795

The first of the Illuminating Worldviews community dialogue series, this evening will feature Dr. Lee Brown (former Director of the Institute of Aboriginal Health, UBC) and Elder Mark Wedge (Carcross Tagish First Nation Elder, Author of Peacemaking Circles) in conversation with Ayana Young (Host of For The Wild).

We warmly invite you to join us for this dialogue exploring the origin and history of emotional suppression and the importance of recovering our emotional maturity to heal the world. Addressing the lack of emotional learning in contemporary school curriculum, this conversation will explore opportunities for educational transformation through learning that develops the emotional realm of the human being.

Speakers

Dr. Lee Brown is the former Director of the Institute of Aboriginal Health in the College of Health Disciplines and the Indigenous Doctoral Program in the Department of Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia, where he wrote his Doctoral Thesis entitled: Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Develop of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy. He is the co-author of The Sacred Tree, an educational curriculum based on Aboriginal values and epistemology. Lee has also contributed to the Round Lake Native Healing Centre in Vernon, BC, during the last Thirty years in several capacities, including as clinical supervisor and as a cultural resource to the centre. He has been the keynote speaker at over one hundred Aboriginal conferences. He has been invited to share his knowledge of culture and healing in over five hundred indigenous communities in North America.

Dr. Brown has developed a theory of holistic emotional education predicated upon six emotional competency principles arising from his research in the area of affective education and learning. Lee also facilitates the annual Emotional Education Conference and is a Global Emotional Education Association co-founder. Lee has been published in Academic Journals on Emotional Education, including the Canadian Journal of Native Education and AlterNative: A New Zealand International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. Lee has also served as the guest editor of the UBC Educational Leadership Journal.

Mark Wedge, or Aan Goosh oo, has long been actively involved in economic and social development, land claims negotiations, ceremonial leadership, and dispute resolution in his community and throughout Canada and the United States. He has served as Khà Shâde Héni (Chief) of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, as Executive Director of the Council of Yukon Indians, as President and Chairman of Yukon Indian Development Corporation and däna Näye Ventures, and as a board member of the First Nations Bank of Canada from its inception. For over 20 years Mark has held peacemaking circles in workplaces and public forums for sentencing for individual crimes, land claims disputes between First Nations and the Canadian government, and outstanding issues between victims of Mission School abuse and the Anglican Church. He is co-author of the book Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community, alongside Kay Pranis and former Chief Judge of the Yukon Territorial Court Barry Stuart. Mark has taught in communities throughout North America and abroad, and is working towards creating Circle-based forms of contemporary tribal governance in his First Nation Government. He advises several postgraduate students; most recently he co-authored a chapter on a Tagish and Tlingit approach to water governance in the book, Global Water Ethics: Towards a global ethics charter. Mark continues to lead his Nation's treaty negotiations with British Columbia. He currently sits on the Board of Governors of Yukon University, the Tagish River Habitat Protection Area Steering Committee, the Carcross Tagish First Nation Trust, and is a guiding Elder of the Illuminating Worldviews project. He is enjoying his role as a grandpa to Taiya, Kasha and Leonard.

Ayana Young and her daughter Penelope Mae Walker spend most days strategizing how to stop large scale industrial projects in wild salmon habitat; and exploring the wilderness of Coastal Alaska. Ayana is the Co-Founder and Host of For The Wild, an independent slow media organization and podcast dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling that dreams towards a world of grounded justice and reciprocity. Learning deeply from the critical dialogue shared with over 100 guests, Ayana approaches For The Wild’s mission with critical thinking, deep reverence, and artistry. She is also a Co-Founder of the The Chilkat Watershed Fund at Alaska Venture Fund as well as the Co-Founder of The Asher Foundation.

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