Jessie Sutherland, reconciler.
One of the things I love about the connectivity of the Internet is that I end up finding people in my own backyard who are doing really interesting things.
So today, here’s a link to Jessie Sutherland a Victoria BC woman who is pioneering some reconciliation strategies using a set of tools called worldviewing which help people to understand their own world views and those of others.
Worldviewing entails three sets of skills:
2. Learning to engage across worldview difference
3. Regenerating Indigenous cultures and re-civilising Western cultures.
Jessie is using these strategies with indigenous and non-indigenous parties where reconciliation is much needed in many fields, whether it’s residential school healing or Aboriginal title issues. She has recently published a book in both electronic and hard copy format called “Reconciliation from the Inside Out: Worldviewing skills for everyone.” And no matter where you are in the world you can engage in more of her work with a series of weekly teleconferences.
It’s great to have people like this out there. I wish she had a blog! I’ll have to settle for the odd email back and forth and promises of a future meeting next time I’m in Victoria.
