HEALING TOGETHER SPRING SERIES
Disrupting Language Oppression: Connecting Language Liberation and Climate Justice
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific
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SESSION OVERVIEW
This Healing Together Gathering will preview content from our Embracing Language Liberation virtual workshop.
Each of the 6,700 languages spoken today holds unique and valuable ways of seeing, knowing, being, and understanding. Our birth language is how we connect to ourselves, experience belonging, and make sense of the world. We are experiencing global language loss at an unprecedented rate: one language disappears from the planet every 14 days. How many languages have been lost in our own families? Communities? Language Oppression is the result of and perpetuates colonization, racism, climate change, assimilation, and genocide. Language Liberation is a set of practices and assumptions that: intentionally disrupt language dominance; support us to grieve, reclaim and revive lost languages; recognize the ongoing impacts and legacies of colonization and genocide; and ensure more equitable and just contributions, participation, and outcomes.
This session is Part III of our three-part Healing Together Spring Series. Please join us for any and all of these sessions. (If you miss previous sessions in the series, you're welcome to register for later sessions!).
- PART I: Understanding Language Oppression
April 27, 2022
- PART II: Embracing Language Liberation
May 25, 2022
- PART III: Connecting Language Liberation & Climate Justice
June 22, 2022
SERIES DESIRED OUTCOMES
- Affirmed our capacity to heal from language oppression and reclaim, hold on to, and revitalize languages that have been lost or are in the process of being lost
- Experienced the power of healing using LJIST’s core listening practice
- Deepened our understanding of LJIST’s core theory of social transformation and its application to ending racism
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
This dana offering is open to any and everyone. You are welcome to join as many HTGs as you like, but please only register for HTGs that you commit to attend for the full time. We will not cap registration, but will only admit the first 90 participants to the session.
No recordings available: must be present to heal!
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