Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Land as Pedagogy” has valuable insights related to our current work on mentoring. Simpson discusses how learning is naturally connected, which means it can be deeply connected to you or someone else, bringing you to the land and the lessons it offers. Similarly, we believe that by researching and understanding our mentoring challenges, we can bring about meaningful change, such as peer mentoring. Our team has found that this reading aligns well with our goal of rethinking traditional mentoring practices and creating a more respectful and practical approach. We focused on encouraging mutual respect and rethinking traditional mentoring frameworks to better align with current needs in the videos we plan to show later in the year. By embracing principles from the reading, we aim to challenge and expand conventional perspectives on peer mentoring, bringing fresh insights and meaningful change to our practices, such as getting different perspectives on what our mentees may have and what we can agree or disagree with. Because we are close in age, they could listen more and engage in what we say. The reading has provided valuable perspectives that inform and enhance our approach, helping us to build more effective and transformative mentoring relationships. While it can feel great to feel like we’ve learned something in two days, reading this has also given me a different perspective on how Kwezens and we, as code students, are related when figuring things out and helping each other. We have much more information at our disposal and support one another in understanding what is happening and what we want to do for our products.