Msit No’kmaq means “All My Relations” in Mi’kmaw.
Msit No’kmaq aims to support people in reconnecting with themselves, each other, and the land, waters, and all beings through land-based workshops, webinars, walks and retreats.
Carolynne Crawley, founder of Msit No’kmaq, has Mi’kmaw, Black and Irish ancestry and is from the East Coast, known today as Nova Scotia. She is dedicated to social and environmental justice and supporting Indigenous led community work related to food sovereignty 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 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 that support the development and strengthening of healthy and reciprocal relationships based upon Indigenous knowledge that decolonize existing interactions with the land and with each other. She also shares Indigenous life ways such as bird language and harvesting ‘wild’ foods and medicines from the land.
She is a certified Forest Therapy Guide. She was also a Mentor and Trainer of the practice. She leads monthly forest therapy walks throughout the GTA for the general public. She also leads in person and virtual walks, facilitates webinars and retreats for corporations, organizations, and the general public.
Carolynne is a Blanket Exercise Facilitator, contracted by Karios Canada. The Kairos Blanket exercise touches upon “more than 500 years in a 90-minute experiential workshop that aims to foster understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples…It ‘walks’ through situations that include pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. ” Kairos Canada
She is also a member of the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle. ‘It is a Circle of Elders, knowledge keepers, community members and leaders who have come together around our shared commitment to healing Indigenous lands and community here in Tkaronto. High Park’s oak savannahs are Dish With One Spoon Wampum lands, where our Ancestors conducted ceremony, grew gardens, hunted and foraged for food and medicines.’
Previously, Carolynne worked with one of Toronto’s largest food security organizations for the past decade. She built school food gardens and developed curriculum-linked food literacy workshops for both elementary and secondary schools across the GTA. The last two years she was the Indigenous Food Access Manager. She worked with Indigenous community members within the city of Toronto and with Cree communities along the James Bay area. She is a Co-Producer of an upcoming documentary, Reckoning with the Wendigo, that focuses upon the resiliency of the Cree People along the James Bay who are impacted by continual threats from colonial systems. She currently works with one of Canada’s largest food security organizations as the Indigenous Network & Knowledge Sharing Manager.
Carolynne is also a Holistic Nutritionist, and has worked as a Child & Youth Worker for more than twenty years. She applies all of her knowledge in all of her current work. Carolynne can be found speaking at events that center around social, food, and environmental justice.
To book Carolynne for a public or private event or speaking engagement view the connect page at msitnokmaq.com
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