Tracking as Resistance

Program Description

During this 5-hour workshop we will learn how to track animals, plants, and different spaces of heart and mind through various forms of education and engagement. We will begin with a 2- hour indoor introduction to tracking and learn why it is so closely tied to the lives of marginalized folks and our ancestral relationships with the land. We will introduce a few species commonly found in the county and provide a basic background for how to identify them. We will focus on learning more from these beings than about them. The remaining 3-hours of the workshop will be spent out in the field where we will work with different mindfulness and movement exercises to encourage an arrival into our parasympathetic nervous system. While we engage in wildlife observation we will come into connection with the land in ways that remind us of what it's like to be…