Two Worlds
Workshop
A Liberation Arts Cultures Workshop
Preparing to Talk
The Four Agreements of Courageous Conversations - Video
The Two Worlds
How conscious are we of the two worlds in North America?
Proof that we live in two Americas - Video of Comedian Roy Woods 3:17
What is a cultural experience for a white North American citizen like; and for a person of color, for difference in skin color
How about the mixed race experience, what about self-identification?
Examining the different beliefs and assumptions present in the interactions of different cultures.
Compare the beliefs and assumptions of a main stream North American to that of the disenfranchised North American person of color.
What are the different assumptions about how accountability works?(account to the self, account to the collective)
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. Audre Lorde
Stories and Exercises
Story to test your reflex - The doctor and the accident
Game to exercise awareness - Change Game: Partners stand face to face taking a moment to observe each other. Take turns not looking/seeing (close eyes or turn around) partner B change something, return to A looking, A then tries to guess what was changed.
Story about the Japanese Gymnast - Laughter as an expression of embarrassment.
Dance - Taking 2 steps dance
Story of the physical couple in the NVC community
Living in Intentional Community
Things to discuss after considering beliefs and assumptions:
Somethings effect people in different ways
Is multiculturalism in the vision?
Do we tend to default and reflex to one culture over the other. The 80 /20 split. Which culture wins?
Stories and Exercises
The story about being introduced with just one name or with your many names (nicknames)
Stick Dance - Beat 1 for the community 2,3,4 for yourself
Considering how to honor both cultures in the same time/space
Unity
Practice to overcome the illusion of separation
Greatest Overall Decision
Beginning with Self
The power in the Warrior disposition of Radical Responsibility
The home of our heroes is the Warrior Ecovillage
Mediation:
Circle Outside ⭕️
Bring outside in
and inside out.
Circle ⭕️ Inside
Focus on the zero
into the dot at the center of us all
Leave the walls behind
Live in two worlds at the same time - social emotional multi-task
Be a Yes for community and celebrate
Greatest Overall Decision
What are our shared values and prior agreements?
Norms that matter for a multi-cultural community
Honoring and sourcing from Eldership
Integration of childhood into the community culture
Excersises
Play games to think in different contexts, use binaries such as kick and dodge
The four agreements - 1) Be impeccable with your word. 2) Don't take anything personally. 3) Don't make assumptions. 4) Always do your best
The four agreement of courages conversation - Video
Takeaways
Don't assume, come curious instead
Celebrate differences (tolerate)
Know history learn
Four agreements of difficult conversations
Forgive
Bonus Exercises - Creative Arts Workshop Integrations
Call and Response Sim Sim Sim Nao Nao Nao
Sing Liza Jane
Sing Life Every Voice and Sing
2 steps dance - right right left left
Definitions
Assumptions
Imperial
Assumptions - can come from unvoiced values about a variety of things such as how we work, about social mobility and legal accountability, What and how we eat, what is clean and that clean equals good, appropriate clothing, what is an appropriate expression and volume of expression? What is a family and how do they relate?
Imperial - Imperial carries the implication of royalty, usually pertaining to an empire; the emperor or empress is referred to as "your imperial highness." The word imperial has a lofty feel, and though it's often used of royalty, it is sometimes used to refer to anything extremely large or impressive.