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Turning to Our Roots: A Framework for Cultural Integrity with Lydia Harutoonian
April 12, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Event Overview
Cultural integrity is essential for WTR facilitators, yet many of us feel disoriented around how to relate to the cultural influences of our practices and teachings, and even to our own personal cultural heritages. Lydia Violet, long-time WTR facilitator and colleague of Joanna Macy’s, and co-creator of the Turning to Our Roots program, is committed to supporting community members, facilitators, teachers, and guides in developing orientation and strong practices rooted in cultural integrity. In this workshop, she will support participants of any identities in finding their way towards cultural right relationship.
Sunday, April 12
10am-12pm PDT (UTC -7)
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Cultural integrity isn’t a destination, but a compass that helps us move in a way that cultivates ongoing right relationship. Based on the Turning to Our Roots program curriculum, this workshop will share a system for understanding and locating ourselves within the terrain of cultural interaction. This includes but is not limited to:
- cultural inspiration
- cultural exchange
- cultural resonance
- cultural appropriation
- cultural erasure
In a compassionate space, where questions are welcome, and we can work together as we find our way.
The Work that Reconnects is a body of work informed by multivalent cultural practices. In leading WTR workshops, facilitators are in positions of privilege and power. It’s important for us to find and use our influence in a positive way in the conversation around cultural relationship.
Event logistics
Translated subtitles will be available for this event.
This event will be recorded. The recording will be available three days after the live event and will be sent by email to all those who are registered.
If you are in China and having difficulty registering for this event, please contact Helen Sui 海静.
A portion of the donations for this event will go to the facilitators of the event to honor their work and contribute to their livelihood. Donations also cover the tools, resources and staff hours each event requires. Whatever is donated above and beyond these expenses will go to the general operating fund of the Work That Reconnects Network so it can continue to provide support, networking and programing for our global WTR community.
The suggested requested donation for this webinar is between $25-$35USD
However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please donate generously within your means and feel free and welcomed to join us even without a donation.
Guest Presenter
Lydia Violet Harutoonian, MA, grew up in the Iranian-Armenian-American diaspora with a steadfast curiosity for culture, spirituality, and community service. She is dedicated to navigating her own ever-evolving relationship with cultural integrity. She is working to tend to this aspect of cultural healing, relational healing, and inter-community healing.
Lydia is always joyously committed to sharing the Work that Reconnects with others, conjuring emotional resources for our time. She serves as a dedicated keeper and steward of the lineage of deep ecology elder and wisdom keeper Joanna Macy. After 17 years of sustained study, mentorship, and co-facilitation of WTR workshops with Macy, as well as immersion in adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy, Lydia is excited to empower the next generation of WTR facilitators.