Social Ecology

 

A healthy environment includes a healthy social ecology, which requires skills that often are not prioritized in school settings, such as reciprocity, listening, respectful communication, valuing the marginalized, and accepting feedback with humility. Relationship-based study of the environment through exposure to nature teaches all of these qualities inherently, while requiring confidence and humility - two attributes necessary for making lasting change.

 

Kelly is trained in mentorship, rites of passage, facilitation, and insightful communication. She is also trained in anti oppression theory and as a facilitator of Theater of the Oppressed, an exploratory approach that uses games and role playing to peel back the layers of our identity, consciousness and life experiences that have formulated our perspectives, assumptions and judgements. While explicitly practicing T.O. with older students and adults in school communities, Kelly is also comfortable presenting social justice concepts to all ages in appropriate ways, and teaches educators about creatively weaving this element into any curriculum topic as a multi-disciplinary approach to sustainability education.