- HikeType Urban Walk
- HikeIcon https://hikes.brucetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/7/marker_urban-walks.png
- PaceTypes Leisurely
- TerrainTypes Variable
- PaidOuting No
Hike open to BTC Members only.
Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Urban Walk
Location (Google Maps): High Park Nature Centre, 375 Colborne Lodge Drive in High Park
Hike Leader(s): Marie-Josée Roy Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)
Pace: Leisurely
Terrain: Variable
Distance: n/a
Description
Please join us for a 30-minute Guided sensory experience with Carolynne Crawley, followed by an hour hike in beautiful High Park.
Please note that High Park is closed to vehicle traffic on public holidays and weekends.
Carolynne Crawley, founder of Msit No’kmaq, is Mi'kmaw and also has Black and Irish ancestry and is from Mi’kma’ki territory, also known today as Nova Scotia. But Tkaronto has been her home since a young child. She is dedicated to social and environmental justice and supporting Indigenous led community work related to Indigenous food ways and food security. Carolynne is passionate about reconnecting people with the land, waters, and all beings as there is no separation between us. From many Indigenous perspectives around the Earth they are all our relations to be treated with as much love, respect, and reciprocity as we do with our human loved ones. Carolynne leads workshops for the public and the private sector that support the development and strengthening of healthy and reciprocal relationships based upon Indigenous knowledges that Indigenize existing interactions with the land and with each other by deconstructing colonial and capitalistic thoughts, language, and actions. She also shares Indigenous life ways such as bird language and harvesting ‘wild’ foods and medicines from the land.
Carolynne is also a certified Forest Therapy Guide and was a Trainer and Mentor for five years in the practice. She is a Blanket Exercise Facilitator, a Holistic Nutritionist, Storyteller, a Co-Producer of the documentary Reckoning with the Wendigo, and a member of the Tkaronto Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle. She is currently working for Canada's largest food security organization as the Indigenous Network & Knowledge Sharing Senior Specialist while operating her small business. Carolynne can be found speaking at events that center around social, food, and environmental justice.
https://www.msitnokmaq.com/