As a Settler, it’s been really important for me to continuously reflect on the assumptions I hold about what is “right” and “good” because of the colonial environment I’ve grown up in. I also continue to explore ways to incorporate Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing into my own approach and activities, in culturally appropriate ways.

Over the last couple of years I’ve incorporated a discipline of gratitude in the mornings, taking 10-15 minutes to pause and give thanks for the world around me, the relationships I hold within it, and offer tobacco with a prayer and intention for the day.

This has been an important personal act of decolonization for me over the last couple of years, as I do the work to remind myself that my schedule is not, in fact, the most important thing in the world, but rather it is the world itself that is important and I'm just here as a visitor to play my part as best as I can.