Community Care, Decolonized Wellness Is a Self-Sustaining Ecosystem
You are invited to choose your path to the berry patch by identifying and sourcing the resources and pathways that will help your specific community ecosystem flourish, for safer campuses for everyone.
In this final video, you are invited to reflect on your learning and growth and on the natural cycles of regeneration that will be needed to sustain the ecosystem of supports.
Reflection Questions
- Consider how your institution responds to calls for change. Does your institution foster a culture that’s open to change and new ideas? Or is the institutional culture more resistant to change?
- Download the Wise Practices [PDF] handout for guidance on supporting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in meaningful ways.
- How can you become an agent of regeneration and sustainability while respecting the cycles of growth and change?
- Tending and sustaining the berry patch is the work of many people over time.
- How can you provide support (including monetary support) to sustain the work being done by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in building this ecosystem.
- What practices can you use to ground yourself, remain open to the voices of the Indigenous people in the community, and work respectfully alongside them to build this ecosystem?
