An Experimental Approach to Decolonizing the Work

Event Overview

Decolonizing is long overdue. Yet, when we get close to it, it can seem like mining the bedrock with bear hands. It is easy to abandon or stay on the conceptual thinking of it. Colonialism and supremacy live all around us and inside us, not by choice but by design; through the harm we cause and through the harm we suffer.

This is an invitation to support each other on the journey of decolonizing our mind, body, and heart. Together, we aim to sustain discomfort and uncertainty, bolster courage and compassion, strengthen our solidarity and our contribution to collective liberation.

We will honestly examine our response to the challenges of living in times of live streamed genocides, overt racism and hate, fascism, militarism and international double-standard laws, blatant propaganda, and accelerated rate of the destruction of life on Earth. We will be working on how to avoid replicating tools of the dominant system, moving beyond performative action and care, centering underrepresented voices, and leaning into the collective.

Course Structure:

1.     Rooting Gratitude in Reciprocity, Justice, and Healing

2.     Seeing the System of Harm & Seeing Our Entanglement in the System

3.     Honor our Pain as a Political Act

4.     Embodying New and Ancient Eyes to Heal our Disconnection

5.     Go Bold towards Collective Liberation

“We are inseparable from the world, […] the beauty and terror of our society co-arise with us”. ― Joanna Macy