March 3, 2023

In this Issue:

• Terra Prime Wellness Session – Tuesday, Mar 7 – 3:00 MST
• Transformation Network Podcast Features CSU’s Kelly Jones
• Ecology and Society Special Feature on SRS Convergent Science 

• “Engaging for Change: Tools and Tips for Engaging with Natural Resource Managers to Create Positive Change,” by Paul Ryan – March 8 – 4:00 MST
• “Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities” Webinar Recording
• How to Systematize Interdisciplinary Integration

Tuesday, March 7 at 3:00 MST – Manuel Montoya and Terra Prime Wellness Session: ‘Creative Approaches to Dealing with Fatigue within the Academy’

Pull out your Terra Prime card decks and join us for this compelling 60-minute program in which Manuel Montoya will lead us in a special Terra Prime session. We will reflect on what forces enhance or challenge our state of well-being as academics in today’s environment. Academic life is supposed to be a sanctuary for intellectual and creative thought. At its best, it can protect the time and space needed to develop ideas that shape the world, and ideally, the way we interact as living beings. At its worst, it is a bloated bureaucracy, a system that is encumbered by process in favor of presence. During times of immense change, we grow tired and our well-being is challenged to its limits.

During this TN-Wide Wellness gathering, we will use our Terra Prime card decks to answer the following questions: What is the state of higher  education as it relates to our intellectual and emotional well-being? What is the  source of our resilience as thinkers in a complex and cumbersome academic  space? How does the Transformation Network account for the changes in academia that allow us to transform in correspondence with our noble and ambitious hopes for our work?

Manuel has created a Terra Prime primer packet to prepare us in advance of the session. Take some time to read it over beforeTuesday!