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Suggested Reflection Questions

1. Your role at Burke's

2. When did this opportunity take place?

3. Summary of workshop/ opportunity

4. Goals & Collaborations:

   - What were your big takeaways from your workshop or project?

Your role at Burke's

When did this opportunity take place?

Dec 4-7 @ POCC

Summary of workshop/​opportunity

Presenter: John Igwebuike, Saint Ignatius College Prep (IL)

Do you wish the people around you listened better? Do you feel like your relationships with colleagues, coworkers, and community members could be enhanced if communicating parties listened more empathetically? Do you believe that perceived conflicts, polarization, and toxic divisions can be overcome by better active listening? Join an active listening activist who champions the positive power of effective listening to build bridges, cultivate care cultures, and foster wellness. Dive deep into the greatest skill rarely taught, exploring advanced listening topics. Discover what type of listener you are; identify barriers to listening; summarize chief characteristics of great listeners; analyze neuroscience around listening; and summarize activities that can improve intra-, inter-, and institutional listening skills.

"Xinachtli (She-nash-tli) Blossoming Seed

Xinachtli (Nahuatl for germinating/ blossoming seed) is a gender-responsive, culturally-based rites of passage philosophy, process and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience and leadership capacity of Indigenous, Chicana, and Latina cis and trans girls and non-binary youth."

This past week I participated in the Xinachtli Rite of Passage Training, a curriculum developed by Sara Haskie-Mendoza for Chicana, Indigenous, Latinx girls and non-binary youth. “It is a bicultural youth development process designed to provide female youth the guidance for a healthy development into adulthood.” Dr. Patty Ramirez was the main facilitator along with a few other women, all also belong to a supporting organization, the Los Angeles Indigenous People’s Alliance (LAIPA). 

The training was so personally impactful and culturally reaffirming and comprised much more than I had expected. I felt a deep sense of “home” as we moved through cultural practices, songs, body stretches and self-care. We took time…

I attended a weekend conference in Carmel Valley, ancestral lands of the Costanoan Ohlone People. We gathered to learn from culture bearers, ethnomusicologists, and music teachers. Over the course of the weekend we participated in active learning with materials that were specifically acknowledged as being okay to experience as a visitor to the culture, watched videos and heard from culture bearers in person to learn more about aspects of their culture, hear songs and see dances that are okay to be shared to us but not learned or taught for us to pass along ourselves as teachers. We worked with children's books which respectfully depicted North American Native stories in ways which deepened our understanding about knowledge about the culture represented (learning words in the language of the tribe, seeing art using elements used in the culture) while allowing us to respond to the material with our own creativity through…