Supporting those of us racialized as white in taking responsibility for how we live, heal, settle, visit, and move through Indigenous lands
At Decolonizing Social Work, we recognize the need for a different way of moving through lands that are not our own.
For settlers - particularly those of us racialized as white - how we live, heal, settle, visit, and move through other people’s territories is not neutral.
These ways of being often replicate patterns of extraction, even when unintentional.
This work exists to interrupt that.
Rather than focusing on being “better visitors,” or identifying as helpers or allies, this work shifts the focus to how we show up - taking responsibility for our presence, our impact, and the systems we continue to benefit from and uphold.
Through this, we support a shift out of consumption, appropriation, and extraction and into relationship - where Indigenous peoples, their lands, and their sovereignty are respected, and where our role is not to center ourselves, but to do the internal and collective work required of us to dismantle ourselves, our communities, and the systems of domination we have inherited and continue to uphold.
invites settlers - particularly those of us racialized as white - to examine how we show up while living, settling, visiting, and moving through Indigenous lands, and what responsibility that requires of us.
Cultivating Cultural Consciousness
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OUR PURPOSE
Decolonizing Social Work exists to address the disconnection created by colonial systems by supporting those of us racialized as white to take responsibility for how we live, heal, relate, and move within Indigenous lands.
This work focuses on internal and collective transformation - dismantling colonial identities, behaviours, and systems, and cultivating ways of being grounded in accountability, relationship, and respect for Indigenous sovereignty.
