Outdoor Allyship with Vanessa Chavarriaga: 

"Breaking Invisible Barriers: a conversation around inclusivity"

We're excited to announce this special Outdoor Allyship presentation with Vanessa Chavarriaga! Our Outdoor Allyship speaker series focuses on the actions big and small we all can take to make the outdoor recreation community more inclusive and accessible for everyone. Traditionally, this speaker series has only been open to our current training cohorts, but we wanted to experiment with opening the door so more people have an opportunity to learn from our incredible speakers. 

Join us for a collaborative conversation around how we take up space outdoors, what implicit biases we carry, and how to make these spaces safer and more inclusive for us all. We will dive into the history of environmentalism and outdoor recreation, and how this legacy affects the ways we operate outdoors today. We will also brainstorm how to create better relationships with nature outside of oppressive systems, and what that looks like in each one of our lives.

Note - if you are currently enrolled in Summer Strong, this talk is included in your membership for free. 

What's included: 

  • Access to Vanessa's 60-minute presentation with an opportunity to ask questions if you attend live. 
  • A replay of the event will be emailed to attendees within 48 hours of the presentation.

The details: 

  • $15 cost to attend - if cost is prohibitive, email us: [email protected]. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 
  • Thursday, July 7th 
  • 4pm AKST / 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
  • on Zoom
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Meet Vanessa

 

Vanessa is an environmental sociologist and Colombiana who focuses on the intersection of people and nature. She recognizes the systemic barriers that purposefully keep BIPOC out of outdoor spaces. Vanessa did not grow up with access to the outdoors and now that she is able to experience the outdoors and the strong sense of freedom she had been searching for - taking up space in the outdoor community has come to feel revolutionary. 

Her favorite activities are trail running, mountaineering, skiing, foraging, and swimming in really cold lakes. She speaks up against systemic racism, colorism, anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity in the Latinx community and beyond. She is involved with multiple environmental sociology projects including food sovereignty, education and decolonization, and grizzly bear coexistence. 

For more information about Vanessa or to follow along on her adventures and projects, check her out on Instagram @vanessa_chav

 

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.