ABSTRACT
From 2000 to 2010, the author worked as a wilderness therapy instructor with adjudicated youth, taught high school biology and earth systems, and worked in the non-profit sector as an environmental educator and green schools coordinator. The American Civil Rights Movement passed substantive laws, yet equality was far from reality over 50 years later. The theory of change 'planting seeds' in young people and then expecting they will find solutions to create more equity and stop ecological destruction was too late for Brenda and would not halt the Chevron and Tesoro spills. In the book Medicine Cards, authors Jamie Sams and David Carson describe medicine as "anything that improves one's connection to the great Mystery and to all life". Similar to the fox observing with its environment, Brazilian educator and activist, Paulo Freire encourages us to think with instead of thinking for or thinking about people in a process called dialogical thinking.
