PARTICIPANTS WILL EXPLORE ALASKA PLANT TEACHINGS INCLUDING HANDS-ON MEDICINE MAKING, HARVESTING, COOKING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE A CURRICULUM KIT INCLUDING A BOOK, PLANT CARDS, ACTIVITY HANDOUTS, AND WILL MAKE A PLANT TEACHINGS SELF-CARE KIT.
Kaasei, is Wooshkeetaan, Eagle/Wolf of the Shark House of Berners Bay, Alaska.
Her work focuses on wellness and violence prevention through connecting people to native plants and foods, cultural traditions, and community.
In 2017, Naomi founded Kaasei Training & Consulting, offering workshops, teacher trainings, and presentations at culture camps, tribal events, and food and plant medicine symposiums. With over thirty years of experience, she formerly served as Executive Director at Women In Safe Homes, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, as Marketing and Economic Development director for the Ketchikan Indian Community, and as an Adjunct Professor and Cultural Specialist at University of Alaska, Southeast Ketchikan. She is certified in Ethnobotany from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is an Indigenous foods chef. Naomi and her husband live in Ketchikan and have five adult children and nine grandchildren. For more information about her work, visit her website at kaasei.com.
