Decolonizing Spaces Webinar
This three-hour online webinar provides confidence in understanding what decolonizing spaces in the arts can look like in practice so we can move together towards meaningful reconciliation.
Topics
Through cultivating care and curiosity, we will explore with creativity:
- The understanding we have ourselves.
- The practice of love, patience and discipline.
- The difference between colonial and decolonial ways of being, thinking and feeling.
- The necessary protocols for cultivating a safe space including inclusion, validation, well-being and freedom.
- The different perspectives we have including tradition, relationship, action and innovation.
- The impact of vicarious trauma and resiliency.
- The nested system of individual, family, community and land.
Facilitation
Content framework shared by Elaine Alec from the Syilx and Secwepemc Nations in the Cultivating Safe Spaces (CSS) program (visit cultivatingsafespaces.com) to Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Facilitated by Geraldine Ysselstein (trained CSS facilitator), a settler born in the land of her ancestors, which is the Netherlands, and for the last 10 years living in Mohkinstsis (Calgary).
Dates: The first webinar will be on September 12, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
Other dates for the webinar include:
- September 26, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- October 10, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- October 24, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- November 14, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- November 28, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- December 5, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
- December 12, 2023, 12 – 3pm MT
Cost: The cost to attend is $200/person OR $100/person if you book before August 31, 2023 with discount code EARLY100
Why Attend
If you would like to lead with love, be patient with perspectives that are different than yours, develop awareness regarding the impact of trauma and resilience on your brain and body, move into reflection rather than reaction, differentiate between colonial and decolonial ways of thinking/doing/feeling, understand yourself with love, develop protocols around cultivating safe spaces, and make decisions that connect to self, family, community and land — please join me for any one of the webinar dates.
For more information and to register visit riverstone.consulting/webinar.
For questions and more information contact Geraldine Ysselstein, Creative. Consultant. Collaborator. Changemaker at geraldine@riverstone.consulting or visit riverstone.consulting.
