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DECOLONIZING HEARTS AND MINDS: Using ancestral healing and ancient wisdom to transmute wounds into power Presented by Dr. Tone Rawlings & Sheika Luc LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to acknowledge that we are on unceded ancestral lands
Using ancestral healing and ancient wisdom to transmute wounds into power
Presented by Dr. Tone Rawlings & Sheika Luc
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are on unceded ancestral lands
who are still here, a people who continue to honor their ancient heritage.
Blak Queer, Gender NonConforming Pronouns: They/Them Middle Class Higher Education
Blak Queer Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Working Class First Generation American Higher Education
Essence of the work
DECOLONIZATION
What does it mean for the HEART & MIND?
TRAUMA
How do we get out of our TRAUMA loops?
BENCHMARKS OF SUCCESS ACCORDING TO WHITENESS
What are your life ASSUMPTIONS?
AFROFUTURISM
How can we get there with COLONIZED MINDS?
WISDOM PRACTICES
What can we DO.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
CONTACT INFORMATION
INTENTION
A DEFINITION
to undo the Settler State on a daily basis, both from within and without. Eurocentric dominance, white supremacy, racism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, slavery, land theft, imposed treaties, broken promises, relocation, forced assimilation, government manipulation, corporate control, psychic violence and all the associated forms of oppression that continue to impact indigenous people and POC in the Americas are identified, confronted, called
DECOLONIZE THE MIND
the act of recognizing the methods used to colonize the mind, body, and spirit,
every decisions are influenced by our colonized mindsets, and
transmute self-limiting stories into a gateway to liberation
DECOLONIZE THE HEART
the act of freeing oneself from those mental limitations & trauma through the deep love, compassion, and forgiveness of the self and the shadow.
Of your daily cognitive load is run by the subconscious mind
YOU ARE RUN BY YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS PROGRAMMING
How can we create from our authentic selves when we are running our lives from the program of white supremacy and assimilation?
WHAT ARE YOUR LIFE ASSUMPTIONS
ASSUMPTIONS EXERCISE
People are judging me When I haven’t succeeded, I’ve failed I need to be perfect I have to work twice as hard as white folx I need to assimilate to be successful My expectations of others should be fulfilled My situation is permanent I am whole as I am I must live up to a certain prescribed standard to be successful I live in an abundant universe __________ is holding me back My moral system is a universal truth I'm not good enough i need to work smarter to show my value i have to work harder at my job to be valued In public spaces, i wont be treated the same way as white folx I’m not as smart as others I’m more intelligent than others I’m not worthy of love I’m not worthy of wealth or prosperity Emotions just get in the way I think therefore i am My thoughts are who I am Reality exist only as matter When my brain dies, my consciousness will die too I can just muscle through this Self-care is only for housewives on melodramas I'm generally suspicious of others’ intentions My brain creates my conscious experience I have to stick with a decision even if it’s not in my best interest I matter just because I’m alive I’m both a kind and not-so-kind person Service means sacrifice Personal imperfection is not an excuse but a reality Everyone has the capacity to heal themselves
If we took all the mirrors away telling you, who you are,
WHAT ARE YOUR LIFE ASSUMPTIONS & BENCHMARKS OF SUCCESS
THE CHALLENGE
How can we decolonize our world using colonized minds?
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
IDENTIFYING OUR THOUGHTS AS THE SELF
TRAUMA
suffering that is caused by an event/events that are considered significant by the mind. It creates a broken connection to the self, to others, to spirit. It is a disorder of not being able to be present because the residue of the event or events keeps
Single event
Developmental - childhood trauma
Ongoing Intergenerational + Epigenetic Ancestral
TRAUMA
Multigenerational trauma + continued oppression + absence of opportunity to access the benefits of society POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME - DR. JOY DEGRUY
TRAUMA
ACEs
TRAUMA
AFROFUTURISM
“BLACK TO THE FUTURE”
blending the African Diaspora with science, technology, and philosophy, Afrofuturism is a way for Black people to see and expand on new ideas and shape a future
AFROFUTURISM
AFRO, DESI, ASIAN, LATINX INDIGENOUS FUTURISM
HEALING
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."
REFRAMING
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.”
MOLASSES
«Gratitude Practice «Shadow Work «Pain Body Work «Soul Retrieval «Meditation «Brainwave Sync
TOOLS FOR LIBERATION
«Ho'oponopono «Plant-based Medicine «Acupuncture «Forest Bathing «I AM Affirmations «Indigenous Spiritual Practices « Somatic Therapy
TOOLS FOR LIBERATION
When we live in an unawakened state we react to each other and to our surroundings based on our past wounds and trauma.
Personally
If we are interacting with our students from our subconscious programming, what kind of harm are we inflicting on our students? How are we limiting our classrooms, our curricula, our ability to facilitate our students paths? How do we uphold the colonized mindset, unbeknownst to
As Educators
Our traumas, our limitations get passed on and inculcated into our society.
Collectively
CO-CREATING A FUTURE THAT WE WANT