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The systems of harm that inflict violence on the land through industrial agriculture, fossil fuel extraction, and the colonial perception of human dominance over other beings are the same systems that create and perpetuate gender-based violence. As an ecologist and survivor advocate, I see that not only is the source of harm the same in both ecosystem degradation and gender-based violence, but that healing needs to happen concurrently as well.

In this workshop, I will articulate the root of these harms and offer strategies for healing from them simultaneously. I will demonstrate that to be in a healthy relationship with the land, we have to be in healthy relationship with each other. I will guide participants through ways to offer verbal, resource-based, and embodied support, particularly to survivors of gender-based violence.

I will offer both epistemological and methodological contexts for healing and will guide participants through grounding exercises for ecological embodiment.