Thinking in Seven Generations

Join speaker Jayla Rousseau-Thomas, author of Thinking Differently: Using the Seven Generations Principle, for a workshop about how to make decisions like a good ancestor. 
The Seven Generations Principle is common within many Indigenous communities across North America. Simply put, the Seven Generations Principle puts the onus on decision-makers to consider the options and their impacts outside of just the current context when making decisions at the individual, family, and community levels. Each person is to consider the decision they are seeking to make, in addition to considering what would the seven generations before them have done, and how will this decision impact seven generations into the future. It encourages us to think of the connections between and among us and our environment, and to tread lightly and in solidarity. It encourages us to look both forwards and backwards to better integrate intergenerational equity into policies and administration. 

Open to students, staff and faculty.

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Artwork in image: Seven Generations Moons‘ by First Nations Metis artist Leah Marie Dorion – Original painting presented by DaVic Gallery of Native Canadian Arts