Reconciliation Dialogue
Civic & Social Organization - Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
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Reconciliation Dialogue Details
Reconciliation Dialogue facilitates solution oriented conversations.Our focus is delivering both online and face-to-face dialogue engagements between and among Indigenous and settler peoples to help move us all into a post-colonial Canada.Our approach is to practice what we preach: we believe that the way forward into a post-colonial Canada is through dialogue and we want to establish places where this idea is both discussed and lived in the context of genuine reconciliation.Some us are settlers who have worked for over a decade with many First Nations in British Columbia to help them become self-determining. But we recognize and acknowledge where we come from and who we are and what limitations that places on us.We see ourselves as facilitators. We do not have a plan or pretend to know what the answers are for our Indigenous friends or even put ourselves out there as knowledgeable. But we have seen first-hand the damage caused by the current system, want to see it change and believe that the way it will change is through dialogue between Indigenous and settler peoples.And so this site is a space for such a dialogue about a particular approach to moving us into a post-colonial Canada. It is, we think, an experiment and we are not aware of any other site attempting to do this. It might fail, but we think it worth the risk. Its succeeds it will be because people like you engaged with it.
