Rachel Epp Buller is a multidisciplinary artist who explores embodied listening through walking, drawing, stitching, audio field recording, and other slow modes of bodily attunement. She is Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College in Kansas. Sheena Wilson is a scholar of climate justice and the energy humanities. Her research and policy advising connect with settler, immigrant, refugee, and Indigenous communities across Turtle Island and around the world. She is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

“Grounded in slow and walking scholarship, Walking the Talk utilizes walking as a pedagogical tool to heal, remember, and materialize ethics of care in a generative, decolonial attempt to resist capitalist expectations.” Erica Lori Grimm, Trinity Western University

• AcknowledgementsForeword by Angele Alook1. INTRODUCTIONRachel Epp Buller and Sheena Wilson, “Walking to Attune, Walking to Repair, Walking as a Climate Act” CONVERSATION2. Benjamin Reed, Rachel Epp Buller, and Sheena Wilson, “Walking and Listening with Turtles: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”Section I: Walking as Creative Method 3. Marilene Oliver, “Re-tracing the Path”4. Meredith Snyder, “Walking, Singing, Surviving: Queer Pedagogies of Walking in Rae Spoon’s Green Glass Ghosts”5. Joel Boettger, “Be the First Listener: How the Foundational Practices of Meditation, Daily Walks, and Improvisation Helped Me Hear My Creative Voice”6. Melissa Haynes, “A Walking Cure for the West”CONVERSATION7. Lana Whiskeyjack, Sheena Wilson, and Rachel Epp Buller, “Walking the Good Path: A Conversation” Section II: Walking and Relational Methods of Attunement 8. Emilie O’Brien, “Walking with Motherwort: An Urban Monograph”9. Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka and Mél Hogan, “Walking as Method: From Picton to Edmonton and Beyond”10. Scott Smallwood, “Quartets: Essays, Scores, and Schematics on Walking and Water” CONVERSATION11. Sydney Jane Pursel, Rachel Epp Buller, and Sheena Wilson, “Walking with Community toward Rematriation: A Conversation about the Sacred Red Rock Project”Section III: Walking Toward Transformative Learning12. Aubrey Streit Krug, “Crossing the Threshold into Prairie” 13. Malou Brouwer, “Walking with Indigenous Poetry: A Pedagogical Approach to Embodied Place-Based Learning” Malou Brouwer, “Walking with Indigenous Poetry: An Adaptable Lesson Plan”14. Sheryl Wilson, Peter Goerzen, and Christine Crouse-Dick, “Walking, Talking, Writing, and Holding Space: Demonstrating the Transformative Potential of Circle Process”15. Caroline Bomfim, “Walking Toward Change: Creating Relational Climate Shifts in Municipal Government”Afterword by Chandra TomarasContributor Biographies