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Melissa Scott

Melissa Scott is a Métis-Cree woman from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), with family roots in manito sahkahigan (Lac Ste. Anne), in Treaty 6 Territory. She is a university instructor in Indigenous Studies and Women and Gender Studies, as well as a ceremonialist and herbalist. Melissa is the founder of omâmâwaw herbal, a slow herbalism practice rooted in connection to nature’s wisdom and mothering care. Guided by Indigenous ways of knowing and being, and the teachings of plants and okâwîmâw askiy (Mother Earth), her work as an educator, herbalist, and practitioner creates spaces where women are invited to soften, reconnect with themselves, and remember their belonging to Mother Earth.

Slowly, Sweetly: Plant and Mother Earth Teachings for the Summer

Summer is often full of quiet hustle, even as our bodies and spirits ask us to slow down. Drawing from connection with plants, Mother Earth–centred teachings, and Indigenous wisdom, you are invited to re-imagine and embrace summer as a time for slowness—to savour, soften, and receive. This offering explores slowness and sweetness as embodied practices—rooted in relationship with plants, land, and ancestral ways of knowing—that support nervous system regulation, nourishment, and connection to self. Through story, reflection, seasonal wisdom, and time sitting with an herbal offering, this talk opens space to listen more deeply—to the body, the land, and the quiet wisdom of summer.

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