Outdoor Allyship with Oliviah Franke:
Traveling the Braided Stream of Healing
Healing has been a central theme for Oliviah for many years now and their relationship to healing resembles a braided stream across a dynamic wetland. Oliviah will share their lived experiences with healing through the three tributaries of self, land, and community. How do we move through our own healing in a way that allows us to embody the more just and beautiful future we want?
Note - ✨if you are currently enrolled in Summer Strong, this talk is included in your membership for free✨
What's included:
- Access to Oliviah's LIVE 60-minute presentation
- Q & A
- A replay of the event will be emailed to attendees within 48 hours of the presentation.
The details:
- Tuesday, May 21
- 5pm AKST / 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST
- Live on Zoom
- $15 is the suggested cost for attendance, but it is sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
- All funds from this presentation will be donated directly to Gaza Sunbirds, a para cycling team in Gaza, delivering food and aid via bike, an organization chosen by Oliviah.
Meet Oliviah
Oliviah Franke (they/them) was born and raised in Portland Oregon, on lands that have been stewarded and home to Cascade, Clackamas, and Multnomah Bands of the Chinook Tribe. They have called Dena'ina Ełnena home since 2018 and are honored to have been cultivating a caring and driven community since then. Oliviah is a biracial Cáhita person, their ancestors are from the Río Mayo in Sonora and Río Fuerte in Sinaloa Mexico. They are dedicated to reconnecting to their heritage after separation through foster care and adoption. They have spent time studying and working in environmental science, outdoor education, place based service learning, social justice, and racial equity advocacy. They love asking questions and digging into complexity- but most importantly are driven by creating more just and beautiful spaces for all people. They spend their free time beading, cycling, organizing BIPOC cycling spaces through BSpoke, and tending to their garden.
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Welcome to Mind & Mountain!
At Mind & Mountain, we provide online training to build functional strength for outdoor recreation. Our programs help you cross-train from your living room so your outdoor adventures are more fun and you are less prone to injury. Our programs are all based on Mindful Interval Training and can be done anywhere with internet access. To learn more about Mind & Mountain and what we offer, click here!
At Mind & Mountain, we believe:
Outdoors are for everyone. All shapes, sizes, genders, races, sexual identities, ages, abilities. All bodies are good bodies, and all are welcome here.
Strength is the key. Functional strength helps us play in the mountains without injury, and have more fun doing it. And you don’t have to give up your other priorities -- or do a workout program perfectly -- to get strong.
Mental health matters. Exercise supports mental health when we ditch the “no-pain, no gain” pressure and replace it with titrated challenges, shifting our relationships with our bodies, & gradually increasing our capacity to do hard things without overriding our nervous systems’ cues.
