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Follow the Waters
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Sessions 1 and 2 – Preparation
The first sessions of this course include extensive preparatory material, supplementary readings and videos on river ecology, river activism, and rights drawing on key frameworks including rights of rivers, and the Bring Back movement.
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Sessions 1 and 2 - Indigenous River Rights with Tawana Kariri Xoco
The first two sessions will be devoted to connecting with your local river, through sessions led hy Tawana Kariri Xoco by the Opara or Sao Francisco River, the longest river in Brazil. Tawana will share indigenous knowledge on river community building, river songs, river rituals, and indigenous ways of restoring water sources
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Sessions 3 and 4- How to Follow Water? with Nic Salazar
These sessions are designed to help you understand how to engage the river in learning processes and pedagogies, and how to build community through an understanding of community as catchment, hydrocitizenship, riverkin, and other key concepts and ideas around community led water guardianship.
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"Like school, every river has a catchment"
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Thank you for visiting Guardians Worldwide.
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This course costs £150 ( €175/$190) .
10% of the fee goes into a Guardians Tree Rescue Hub of your choice in Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil, Portugal, Chile or UK.
After booking, you will get a pack with all the course materials. This includes a PFD with all the course readings, external links to complimentary sources + video links to all taught sessions, so you can watch in your own time.
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Dreamtime: Can we sleep, can we dream river? Can we imagine river reveries and daydreams? As many indigenous people say, we must dream off. To "dream off" means to lead a life of goodness guided by a starting point, which is our revealed dream. Dreaming off requires water, as water changes the patterns of sleep, and the patterns of sleep change the concourse of dreams. ​ Indigenous wisdom: River wisdoms have been travelling for a long time to get to where we are. Western society sometimes lacks respect, reciprocity and acknowledgement. We see river as thing: something to be utilised, managed, controlled, taught over, explained and mostly dumped into. But where do these knowledges come from, how far into the past can your knowledge reach? Can you access an ancestral understanding of your river? And most important of all, spending time with family- parents and children...with those we love. River is kin.
