Collaborative for Right Relations
Grounding in the diverse traditions of earth care to create a future where we all step into our responsibility to care for the lands and waters that care for us
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The wisdom and worldviews we turn to in times of hardship will either usher in innovation and insight or recreate the same damage, just with a different façade.
How we see ourselves in relations to the world around us is at the core of the environmental and social crises we face.
About
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We are in a critical moment in history. The individual and collective actions we take in the next decade will ripple through the coming generations, impacting the health of the planet and the society our grandchildren and their grandchildren are born into. The environmental and social challenges we face are interconnected, and a paradigm shift in our collective relationship with land and each other is needed. Collaborations between Indigenous Peoples and conservation organizations to bridge western science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge are key to helping society step into right relationship with each other and the world around us.
The Collaborative for Right Relations builds collaborations centered on relationships: relationships with the lands and waters that support us and relationships between environmental leaders and Indigenous wisdom keepers.
Indigenous and western practices of environmental stewardship bring important and complementary strengths to the practice of conservation and to how society approaches our relationships to the lands and waters where we live. The Collaborative will bring together environmental and Indigenous leaders and wisdom keepers to build capacity, foster collaborations, and catalyze on-the-ground pilots for Indigenous and western conservationists to learn and collaborate.
What We Do
By working in critical ecosystems and supporting diverse, resilient networks of people and organizations committed to climate, land and water stewardship, the Collaborative for Right Relations facilitates enduring and thriving biocultural outcomes. The approach builds readiness, facilitates collaborations and incubates shared projects between Indigenous Peoples and environmental organizations. The approach involves supporting capacity where needed, short intensive experiences to deeply immerse in different worldviews of people's relationship with nature, and working shoulder to shoulder to advance shared priorities.
Social systems are the external manifestations of cultural thinking patterns and of profound human needs, emotions strengths, and weaknesses.
Donnella Meadows
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