Another Cup of Coffee, featuring Monique Gray Smith!

The coffee and keynote by Monique Gray Smith titled “Weaving Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults Into Your Class and Around Your Dinner Table” was presented January 28, 2023. (Watch it on Inspiration Corner, on Let’s Talk Science’s Learning Pathways).

Another Cup of Coffee and Keynote is hosted and recorded on Treaty 4 territory, Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, the traditional territory of the lands of the Cree, Saulteaux (SO-TOE), Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation

Our guest, Monique Gray Smith, joined us from the unceded territories of Lekwungen peoples.

The music is by Daddy_s_music from pixabay.

Coffee and a Keynote Session Description

• Join Monique on the journey of adapting Robin Wall Kimmerer’s New York Time Bestselling book, Braiding Sweetgrass. Monique will share her process in writing the adaptation for Young Adults and young at heart, including how she chose what to include in the adaptation and how she and Nicole Neidhardt worked together to decide on the illustrations for each chapter. This session will weave the 3 teachings of Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults together: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and Teachings of the Plants. As well as areas that have more focus, history, social and emotional learning and action steps.

About the Speaker:  

• Monique Gray Smith is a proud mom of teenage twins, an award-winning, best-selling author and sought after consultant. Monique has 9 books ranging for readers across the life span. Children’s books include My Heart Fills with Happiness, You Hold Me Up, When We Are Kind, Lucy and Lola and I Hope. Young Adult and Adult books include Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, and recently released, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults. Monique’s books are used to share wisdom, knowledge, hope and the important teaching that love is medicine. Monique is Cree, Lakota and Scottish and has been sober and involved in her healing journey for over 32 years. She is well known for her storytelling, spirit of generosity and focus on resilience.

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