Look to the Mountain has been acclaimed by educators and indigenous peoples around the world as a blueprint for bringing indigenous educational traditions into the 21st Century as well as showing how western education can be imbued with a greater understanding of our relationships with all things.

Greg is a man who visibly shines with warmth, energy and an incredible enthusiasm for what he does. And what he does are many things...

As a professor of Art and Sciences in Teacher Education he believes in the importance of encouraging student teachers to access their own creative resources. He sees teachers as artists who are constantly creating ... 'writing the play', orchestrating the classroom, the curriculum, the pedagogy. By helping them to discover and exercise their creativity he is helping them to become confident, flexible teachers who trust in their own abilities to find appropriate pedagogical and curricular solutions. Greg uses art therapies as one process in helping students develop creativity. This also helps them understand their own motivations in becoming teachers.

Coupled with this experiential approach Greg teaches the use and understanding of creative teaching methodologies based on whole brain learning theory, multiple intelligences, 4MAT and integrated thematic instruction. He also shows how these emerging western educational theories parallel traditional indigenous teaching methods.

His current interest is in the natural process of learning. What drives us to learn? He believes we are moved to learn by the need to make connections, have relationships with other things or beings - the human love instinct.

Greg has recently built on his work in Look to the Mountain by developing curriculum for teachers which integrates western and Native American traditions. What would this look like? It is a holistic and coherent picture which encourages the students to encounter, explain, make meaning and integrate experiences that draw from both traditions. For example, Native Americans consider it important for students to understand their sense of place - in their inner world, their social world, and with respect to the earth and the universe. In teaching the 'universe' perspective students may learn western astronomy and cosmology as well as indigenous astronomy and mythology including creation myths. By doing this students also learn maths and metaphysics.

Greg is also working as a consultant for various schools and communities, spending a lot of time on the road. He was very excited about a new project on the Navajo reservation (pop 400,000) to build a community college for teacher training. The four year course would take in thirty Navajo student teachers per year. The first two years involve intense study based on Navajo philosophy, wisdom, art, culture and science. The last two years are part of the normal teacher education program at the University of Arizona. This system aims to develop visionary teachers who understand their relationship with the earth and their tradition and therefore, through educating others, can preserve their tradition while moving it forward so it can participate in the contemporary world.

Greg believes that the education of teachers is the way to transform the world.