Thank you for watching our session highlighting the practice and embodiment of gratitude in our daily lives. This video features the "Gift of Community".
Land Acknowledgement
(From SpeakOut Summer Institute 2020 and MU’s Office of Diversity and Inclusive Excellence)
I want to take a moment to reflect on the lands on which we reside. We are coming from many places and we want to acknowledge the ancestral homelands and traditional territories of Indigenous peoples who have been here since time immemorial and to recognize that we must continue to build our solidarity and kinship with Native peoples across the Americas and across the globe. We acknowledge that Marquette University is on the traditional homelands of the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk Indian Nations, who have known this land as relative for millennia and who remain our hosts on it. We honor and acknowledge the land and life of Indigenous people - past, present, and future.
As all of our liberation is tied together, and so is our history, we also acknowledge that this country was built up from the free, enslaved labor of Black people, and we honor the legacy of the African diaspora. We pay respects to Black life, knowledge, and skills stolen due to violence and white supremacy. With this acknowledgement, we also recognize a duty to give honor through our work and continue to stand up for racial and social justice every day.
Opening reflection on community by Parker Palmer:
Old Thinking: Community is a goal. New Thinking: Community is a gift.
Old Thinking: We achieve community through desire, design and determination. New Thinking: We receive community by cultivating a capacity for connectedness.
Old Thinking: Community requires a feeling of intimacy. New Thinking; Community does not depend on intimacy and must expand to embrace strangers, even enemies, as well as friends.
Old Thinking: Community is a romantic Garden of Eden. New Thinking; Community that can withstand hard times and conflict can help us become not just happy but “at home.”
Old Thinking: Leadership is not needed in communities. New Thinking: Leadership and the authority to lead toward community can emerge from anyone in an organization.
Old Thinking; Suffering is bad and should be avoided. New Thinking; Suffering lets our “hearts break open” enough to hold both a vision of hope and the reality of resistance without tightening like a fist.
www.couragerenewal.org/parker/...
Closing quote:
"As we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first. When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others. And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us."
- Wayne Muller
Closing prayer in Faber Group - Ignatian Prayer for Generosity:
Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,
Teach me true generosity.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve.
To give without counting the cost,
To fight heedless of wounds,
To labor without seeking rest,
To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward
Save the knowledge that I have done your will.
Actions to cultivate gratitude for community:
• Notice your day-to-day world from a point of gratitude and be amazed at all the goodness - and good people - you take for granted.
• Gratitude requires humility. Explore where it fits in your life.
• Give at least one compliment daily, whether directly to a person or by sharing your appreciation of something.
• Vow to not complain, criticize, or gossip for a week. If you slip, rally your willpower and keep going. You might be surprised at how much energy you were spending on negative thoughts, and how it has prevented you from connecting and seeing the humanity in others.
• Join a group or participate in a conversation with people outside of your close circle of friends and family.
• Check in on someone in your life once a day - via text message, phone call, email, or letter. A small action can mean a lot.
• Say hello and greet people that you encounter -whether in passing, in a meeting, at home, or in the grocery store. Practice hospitality everywhere you go.
• Say thank you. Out loud, and with eye contact.
• Use Haggerty artworks to reflect on the meaning of community in your life.
11 ноя 2020
