“Learning to Listen” is a community-based, place-based doctoral project taking place on and in cultivating relationships with unceded lək̓ʷəŋən, WSÁNEĆ, Pacheedaht, T’sou-ke, Sc’ianew, Ditidaht, and Huu-ay-aht territories.
Learning to Listen was a “phd” “dissertation” journey undertaken at UVic (2019-2025) that explored place-based relationships and how settlers who form relationships with the land under Indigenous guidance can better support Indigenous Resurgence, Sovereignty, and Wellbeing in ways that are important to Indigenous peoples, while mitigating climate change locally.
This project seeks right relations with the Indigenous peoples and territories that are displaced by settler colonialism, and also seeks to recognize our place here, on these lands, as settlers under Indigenous sovereignty.
This project seeks to support Land Back, Indigenous Resurgence, self-governance, and ways of being and knowing.
This project seeks to build community, to create the conditions for building relational awareness in settlers, to restoring the connection to the Circle of Life and the Earth, and to undermining colonialism through a “turning to” Indigenous leadership and governance in building those relationships.
For more information on the specifics of the project, who’s involved, where’s involved, the theory and wisdom that inform the project’s direction, click on the links above in the “About” section.
All of our relations.