In Collaboration w/ Wild Geese Collective:
Even when most of the forest is resting, nourishing medicines are still abundant and available. We'll cover the basics of winter tree identification including how to use a key, practice these skills together, and discuss some of the medicinal benefits of common species in the Maine woods.
This event is for LGBTQIA+ teens and adults.
You are welcome to come alone or with others!
Sliding scale $5 - $45. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Your contributions support TVOP & Wild Geese Collective's continued efforts to organize LGBTQIA+ events in the north east.
Well behaved dogs on leashes are welcome.
You may want to bring note taking materials.
Please dress for warmth! We will be outside for the entirety of this workshop.
For more details: Winter Tree Medicine w/ WIldgeese Collective
We'll be meeting at the Stevens Avenue entrance:
555 Stevens Ave, Portland, ME 04103
Unceded Wabanaki Territory
Accessible by public transport:
Stevens Ave + New St // Stop ID: 507 // Bus 9A
Map available here:
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1691/Mayor-Baxter-Woods-Park
Caitlin Horigan (she/her) is an advocate of self-directed education and anti-oppression changework. She has facilitated place-based nature connection programming in the nonprofit sector, public schools, and after-school programs throughout mid-coast Maine and the North East.
She is on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestral lineages through deepening relationship with the skills and traditions of her lineages and the people indigenous to the land she lives with now. Her introduction to tracking, bird language, plant medicine, shelter building, scout skills and off grid living began when she worked for the Maine Primitive Skills School in 2014.
Caitlin is a Wilderness First Responder, certified in CPR, and is pursuing a Recreational Maine Guide license. In 2019 she completed a graduate certificate in Ecopsychology through Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is also a Certified Forest Therapy Guide. Caitlin is committed to increasing the accessibility of programs she offers to those with less privilege and continues to explore how to survive in a capitalist system while doing so.
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