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MEDICINE WHEEL FOR THE PLANET event at Montana Invasive Species Council Conference with Jennifer Grenz
October 2 @ 8:15 am – 9:30 am MST
Dr. Jennifer Grenz, author of Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing, will give the keynote address at the Montana Invasive Species Council Conference of the the North American Invasive Species Management Association on Wednesday, October 2 at 8:15 a.m.
Building on sacred stories and field observations, Dr. Jennifer Grenz shares her personal journey of joining her head (Western science) and her heart (Indigenous worldview) to find a truer path toward ecological healing. Eloquent, inspiring, and disruptive, Medicine Wheel for the Planet circles around an argument that we need more than a singular worldview to protect the planet and make the significant changes we are running out of time for.
“Readers seeking answers for the best way to approach climate change will find this resource invaluable.” —Booklist
“In her compelling new book, ecologist and scholar Jennifer Grenz bridges the gap between Western and Indigenous knowledges and epistemologies to provide a new perspective on how we can collectively and meaningfully heal and protect the Earth.” —Ms. Magazine
“[Medicine Wheel for the Planet] details her journey to connect head (Western science) with heart (Indigenous worldview)—the latter of which she says is the “missing puzzle piece” in our efforts to re-establish planetary health amid an ongoing climate crisis.” —Civil Eats
“What a wonderfully destabilizing book! Through an exquisite weaving of lived experiences, storytelling, and regional Indigenous wisdom, Dr. Jennifer Grenz guides us away from the false promise of western ‘Eden ecology’ into the deeper promise of true relational ecology. Here, if we are open and humble, we come to reinhabit our true place in healing the earth—a place where self-care and land-care are intertwined, where Indigenous understanding is honored and incorporated without superficial fragmentation or appropriation, where our human role within the landscape is revitalized, where business and extraction is replaced by balance and reciprocity. Medicine Wheel for the Planet is practical, uplifting, and beautifully composed—a must-read for all who care about our beloved, thirsting Earth.”—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
