About Irene Friesen Wolfstone

I live in Pinawa, Manitoba – a small forest community in the Canadian Shield.  Pinawa is located in Treaty 1 territory,  traditionally inhabited by Ojibwe First Nation.  An ancient  culture that predates the Ojibwe left signs on this land with whom I live – signs of their deep respect for Earth as Mother.  Living with sacred land has changed me. My academic work is motivated by deep concern for my grandchildren’s future on a planet with a changing climate.  I study to understand how we got into this mess, how we can journey collectively  toward wholeness and how we can regenerate the future.

My Learning Journey

• Bombardier scholar, doctoral student, University of Alberta 2017 – current.
• MA – Integrated Studies (Athabasca University) 2016
• B.A. (U.Manitoba) 1972;   Cert.Ed. (U.Manitoba) 1974;  B.Th. (CMBC) 1978.
• Applied Counseling Certificate (U.Manitoba, Continuing Education)
• Focusing & Complex Trauma Certificate (Prairie Region Centre for Focusing)
• Focusing Oriented Therapist (Focusing Institute)

 Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications (selected)

• Sharing economies and Indigenous matricultures in the Land now called Canada (forthcoming Spring 2020). Canadian Woman Studies Journal special issue on The Maternalist Gift Economy: The Hidden Alternative to Patriarchy and Capitalism.
• Deconstructing necrophilia: Eco/feminist perspectives on the perversion of death and love (2019). Book chapter in Ana Isla (Ed.), Climate chaos: Ecofeminism and the land question. Inanna Publications.
• Becoming ecocentric: Transgressive learning (2018).  Book chapter in L. Schultz & T. Pillay (Eds.), Global citizenship, common wealth and uncommon citizenships, pp. 191-205.  Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research, University of Alberta. doi.org/10.1163/9789004383449_013
• Mnajdra: Cosmology of the sky. (2017). Journal of Integrated Studies, 9(1). 

Click this link to read unpublished papers: www.ualberta.academia.edu/IreneFriesenWolfstone