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 of the Duwamish people. A people who are still here, a people who continue to honor their ancient heritage.
Blak TONE RAWLINGS Queer, Gender NonConforming Pronouns: They/Them Middle Class Higher Education
Blak SHEIKA LUC Queer Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Working Class First Generation American Higher Education
Essence of DECOLONIZATION BENCHMARKS the work OF SUCCESS What does it mean for the ACCORDING TO HEART & MIND? WHITENESS What are your life ASSUMPTIONS? TRAUMA AFROFUTURISM How do we get out of our How can we get there with TRAUMA loops? COLONIZED MINDS? WISDOM PRACTICES What can we DO.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS "What's said in the room, stays in the room. What's learned in the room, take it with you."
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INTENTION I want to...
DECOL ONIZE A DEFINITION t o 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 out, and resisted. - Pegi Eyers 2017
DECOLONIZE THE MIND the act of recognizing the methods used to colonize the mind, body, and spirit, of understanding that our every decisions are influenced by our colonized mindsets, and of tracking the colonized operating system to 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.
YOU ARE RUN BY YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS PROGRAMMING ~95% Of your daily cognitive load is run by the subconscious mind 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 -Keli Stewart 2019
People are judging me When I haven’t succeeded, I’ve failed I need to be perfect ASSUMPTIONS EXERCISE 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
WHAT ARE YOUR LIFE ASSUMPTIONS & BENCHMARKS OF SUCCESS If we took all the mirrors away telling you, who you are, WHO ARE YOU?
THE CHALLENGE How can we decolonize our world using colonized minds?
IDENTIFYING OUR THOUGHTS AS THE SELF When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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 one looping in the energy of the past event
TRAUMA TYPES OF TRAUMA Single event Developmental - childhood trauma Ongoing Intergenerational + Epigenetic Ancestral
TRAUMA POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME - DR. JOY DEGRUY Multigenerational trauma + continued oppression + absence of opportunity to access the benefits of society
TRAUMA Dr. Nadine Burke Harris on ACEs
AFROFUTURISM - MARK DERY 1994 “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 of our own. - OSBORNE MACHARIA 2019
AFROFUTURISM
AFRO, DESI, ASIAN, LATINX INDIGENOUS FUTURISM get there with How can we colonized minds?
- JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT 1983 MOLASSES HEALING REFRAMING “He who cannot change the very "You have to act as if it were possible fabric of his thought will never be able to radically transform the world. And to change reality, and will never, you have to do it all the time." therefore, make any progress.” -Angela Davis -Anwar Sadat
TOOLS FOR LIBERATION «Gratitude Practice «Ho'oponopono «Shadow Work «Plant-based Medicine «Pain Body Work «Acupuncture «Soul Retrieval «Forest Bathing «Meditation «I AM Affirmations «Brainwave Sync «Indigenous Spiritual Practices « Somatic Therapy
TOOLS FOR LIBERATION 1. Gratitude Practice 2. Shadow Work 3. Pain Body Work
WHY ALL Personally THIS When we live in an unawakened state we react to each other and to our surroundings based on our MATTERS past wounds and trauma. As Educators 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 ourselves? Collectively Our traumas, our limitations get passed on and inculcated into our society.
CO-CREATING A FUTURE THAT WE WANT Do we want to live a life of survival or live free lives as divine beings?
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