Rooting for Decolonial Reconciliation and Collective Healing Through Land, Story and Art at Urban Farm

The goal of this pilot intervention is to enhance migrant students’ capacity to transform experiences of collective unwellness into collective resilience, relational accountability, and well-being, through land-based practices and restorative storytelling, within a decolonial framework of reconciliation.

This project's aims to:

1. Generate knowledge on decolonial reconciliation and collective un/wellness from migrant perspectives;
2. Assess the benefits of earth-based practices and restorative storytelling for collective wellbeing and resilience;
3. Mobilize knowledge for community, institutional, and pedagogical use.

1. What forms of relational repair emerge through restorative storytelling and earth-based practices?
2. How can land-centred dialogues help migrant students identify and address structural determinants of collective unwellness?
3. What insights do these dialogues offer for decolonial reconciliation?
4. What pedagogical frameworks can support relational, decolonial, healing-centred engagement?

This work will be carried out through a three-pronged, integrated approach:

1. Earth-based practices that cultivate embodied knowledge of relationality, land-based responsibility, and more-than-human connections, grounding wellbeing in place and accountability.
2. Restorative storytelling that fosters critically reflexive healing conversations attentive to histories of displacement, colonialism, racialization, and complicity, while creating space for relational repair.
3. Arts-based strategies that function both as conduits for healing dialogue and as tools for knowledge creation and mobilization, supporting broader movements toward relational accountability, solidarity, and reconciliation within immigrant communities.

• TMU Urban Farm

The project is in the planning phase.

Collective well-being; Decolonial reconciliation; Land-based healing; Restorative storytelling; Arts-based strategy