LAND-Based LEARNING FOR OUR FUTURE ELDERS

A vibrant network of partners—community, outfitter, and educator, Indigenous and non-Indigenous—across the West who convene and collaborate to co-create powerful outdoor experiences grounded in Indigenous ways of being and knowing.
Carefully developed best practices to foster transformative, immersive educational trips that lead to respectful, reciprocal place-based partnerships that care for each other and for Land.
A robust training program that provides work, empowerment, and skills development to Indigenous young adults and positions them within our network of partners as the next generation of Land Leaders.
A mission, community, and way of making change that is based in sensitive engagement with Land.

Indigenous values and worldviews can help us envision, articulate, and act towards a more stable, liveable future in a time of unprecedented anthropogenic climate change and social and environmental challenges. The most effective way to instill these values is through Indigenous-led, extended experience on and with Land.
Networks of relations are key: there are worthy organizations already doing components of this work—education, guiding, community building, etc. Pandion is valuable as a convener and a model for how these diverse partnerships best function.
Centering Indigenous people and prioritizing direct engagement with Land help us stay true to our values and community, and ensure this work is always generative, never extractive.