This course, led by Dr. Lyla June Johnston of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages, guides us to deeply integrate proper value systems of respect, reverence, reciprocity, responsibility, humility, and generosity into our learning process. It is designed to help us unlearn conscious and unconscious paradigms of hierarchy, supremacism, monoculturalism, profit maximization, reputation building, domination, and fear, which can lead us to accidentally reproduce dysfunctional intercultural dynamics.

With this new emotional infrastructure in place, we will be more ready to learn Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge, and other forms of Indigenous knowledge, in a way that does not accidentally perpetuate colonial and extractivist legacies. By learning how to give and be in service to these knowledge systems, we cannot only learn from them abundantly, but help them heal the world as is so desperately needed in this time. In the process, Dr. Lyla June with support students to begin reconnecting with their own Indigenous roots, whoever they are, and even if those roots are hard to find. Through this process, we can all transform ourselves into effective agents of social and ecological healing.