059. Offering the Wisdom and Skills from Your Journey of Transformation

For The Worldbuilders

Last week we talked about how the journey is the dream and the destination is the practice through the metaphor of teaching and learning. I want to pick that thread back up. Just as I believe creativity is the spiritual disposition of our species, I want to argue curiosity, teaching and learning are organic to our ways of being as well. So organic the debate of nature vs. nurture has been going on for centuries now. Today, I’m less interested in teasing out the difference between the gifts we’re taught and the gifts we’re born with. What I’m more interested in teasing out is what happened to us and how can the lessons we learned along the way serve others?

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Referenced Inside the Episode

• The Bluest Eye (pg. 17) by Toni Morrison
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• White Supremacy Culture — From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
• Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study Series edited by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak

Cover Art: Two black girls look out the window of a “Freedom School”. © Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries. Image Source