RECKONING & REPARATIONS
IT IS TIME TO RECKON WITH THIS REALITY
Efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, without attending to historical harms, are doomed to fail. Anyone who is not indigenous to this land is a settler, occupying stolen land. Just about every organization, individual, and family in the United States has participated in and benefited from the systemic oppression and exploitation of our essential and frontline communities. Most of us have been inadequately responding to the demands to rectify these harmful patterns. Government initiated reparations, if/when they happen, will attempt to address systemic harms and help future generations. Reparations initiated by organizations are needed to address institutional and interpersonal harms, and affect current generations who are hurting NOW.
This practicum prepares individuals and teams of privilege for effective participation in “victim-offender” dialogues/reparations/rematriation work with communities severely impacted by colonization.
“If we are committed to transforming the farcical promise of an equitable future for all people into a reality, we must account for this history, repair the damage, and engage in meaningful reparations. If we don’t do this well and do it now, we will compound the historical wounds, adding greater insult to injury, and further corroding the fabric of our communities and premise of our democracy.”
This practicum integrates the Insight Prison Projects Victim/Offender Education Group (VOEG) transformational re-education program and the Fierce Allies Practice of Change. These two bodies of work prepare individuals and teams to:
Acknowledge that you, your organization and/or family have been participating in systemic oppression and exploitation
Commit to excavating and and transforming the patterns of belief that enabled this behavior
Reconcile the facts of the harm caused. Take responsibility for the impact. Repair the harm caused
Skillfully engage the shame and rage certain to surface as you navigate the above
Build strong accountability partnerships with team members to embody the following:
Power analysis
Emotional-social-somatic intelligence
Accountability to indigenous, essential, and frontline members of society
Decreased participation in systemic oppression and exploitation
Equitable choices that are accountable to the broadest diversity of stakeholders
Leadership with a strong equity and justice agenda
Prepare for effective participation in “victim offender” dialogues
AGENDA OVERVIEW
Session 1: BUILDING THE CONTAINER
Session 2: SHAME & DIGNITY
Session 3: HARM IMPACT STATEMENT
Session 4: MEMOIR OF POWER
Session 5: CYCLES OF HARM
Session 6: RAGE & HUMILITY
Session 7: ENVISIONING REPARATIONS
Session 8: STORIES OF RESILIENCE
Session 9: REPARATIONS STRATEGY
Session 10: KEEPING YOURSELF ON THE HOOK
Enrollment is
currently closed
CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMS
Until we offer another public training, customized versions can be designed for groups and organizations, allowing your team the following benefits:
All sessions and all participants will be exclusively focused on developing your group’s reparations strategy.
A rich fabric of accountability will be woven between the members of your group.
The stewards of your plan will be prepared to navigate the strong emotions that are sure to come as you move towards the implementation stage.
Your reparation strategy will be informed by Miakoda’s extensive experience in Transformative Justice, relationship-based strategy for change, emotional-social-somatic intelligence, and trauma healing.