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thread on grappling and growing:
can I give you an example of how I& #39;ve grappled with learning and adopting some stuff into my practice? I think it& #39;s important to talk about these things publicly because even people doing this work for a while don& #39;t have all of the answers.
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can I give you an example of how I& #39;ve grappled with learning and adopting some stuff into my practice? I think it& #39;s important to talk about these things publicly because even people doing this work for a while don& #39;t have all of the answers.
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up until recently, I& #39;ve struggled with how to include land acknowledgments in my workshops. it is not that I don& #39;t understand the importance of acknowledging the theft and genocide of Indigenous peoples, I just felt like doing an acknowledgment without action was hollow.
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i know there is power in naming and i have also been in many spaces in which the acknowledgment has simply been an obligatory passing thought/done out of obligation. i wanted to ensure that my acknowledgment was done with reverence, understanding, and action.
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so I read a lot and I watched videos and I followed and asked people I trusted. i am still learning and reading. in the meantime, I acknowledged that I was grappling with it, I listened to feedback. I invested in the work of Indigenous organizations and activists.
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I didn& #39;t tweet photos of me in cool t-shirts or post updates of all of the learning I was doing. as I was trudging through the messiness, I checked in with accountability partners. more importantly, I began to implement the changes in my practice before I tweeted about it.
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