by Liz Scarfe | Jan 26, 2023 | belonging, culture, foundational, oppression/anti-oppression, power
Culture is more or less the way we do things around here (see my article What’s Culture? for a bit more detail) and of course, the way we do things doesn’t develop out of a random nowhere, and it requires constant reinforcement (and evolution). Hello reward and...
by Liz Scarfe | Nov 23, 2022 | culture, foundational
Over the last twenty-something years, there’s been a noticeable flurry of ‘cultural’ work in response to a growing awareness of the impacts of cultural dominance. It’s stimulated a range of new theories, practices, and reflections aimed at reducing...
by Liz Scarfe | Nov 10, 2022 | belonging, culture, foundational
The concept of belonging is central to understanding and analysing cultural wellbeing. If culture is how we do things around here (read the article What’s Culture for a fuller explanation), belongingness is at the heart of the we, and therefore not we, of culture, and...
by Liz Scarfe | Oct 31, 2022 | culture, foundational
I was chatting with another white person the other day, telling them about my new venture, Collaborative Learning for Cultural Repair. They ooo’ed with delight and then proceeded to tell me about a particular ethnic group they were working with and how this would be...