Embodied Social Justice Certificate by Chelsea Dennis https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq en-us 2022-08-29 01:46:42 UTC 2022-09-16 14:15:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Planet chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117191 "With every breath, every sip of water, every meal, we are reminded that our lives are inseparable from the life of the world—and the cosmos—in ways both material and spiritual. What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship?" ]]> 2022-08-29 01:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117191 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117519 Our town painting by Kerry James Marshall illustrates how Black people can coexist with nature despite urban decay.

Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris, "Kerry James Marshall, Our Town," in Smarthistory, August 22, 2022, accessed August 29, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/kerry-james-marshall-our-town/. ]]> 2022-08-29 01:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117519 Partners chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117602 "How do cultural traditions, narratives, and mythologies shape the ways we relate, or not, to other beings as kin? How do relations between and among different species foster a sense of responsibility and belonging in us?"]]> 2022-08-29 01:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117602 Practice chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117886 "From the perspective of kinship as a recognition of nonhuman personhood, of kincentric ethics, and of kinship as a verb involving active and ongoing participation, how are we to live? What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong ways we become kin?"]]> 2022-08-29 01:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274117886 Persons chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274118072 "Kinship spans the cosmos, but it is perhaps most life changing when experienced directly and personally. Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings? How can we respectfully engage a world full of human and nonhuman persons?"]]> 2022-08-29 01:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274118072 Preface chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274119451 Hi here!

Thanks for viewing my project. I'm Chelsea and while I did not do this project in community with participants in the program, I've created this draft outline with a group of fellow educators as part of a two-year fellowship with Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL).

Our ultimate goal is create programming to support mindfulness practices within educational environments specifically for communities of color. My participation in the ESJC program augments my learnings from the fellowship. My focus area is on black liberation and embodiment for young adults. I hope to provide young adults with embodiment practices that are culturally responsive and adaptive to the environment in which they live whether they reside in urban, rural or suburban areas.

The project below is a work in progress that I'll continue to flush out in partnership with my colleagues in TEL. Feel free to add feedback and ideas for improvement in the comment sections. I appreciate your feedback as we work to strengthen the project.

The questions highlighted in blue are part of a discussion series created for Gavin van Horn's collection, "Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations." The readings and activities serve as ways for participants to answer the questions and embody the lessons through movement, contemplation, art, music, and more. I hope to incorporate more from the book series in the future.

]]> 2022-08-29 01:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274119451 Postface chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274123632 This project will continue to evolve throughout the year as we prepare for our summer retreat in July 2023. We'll put this to the test with other fellows before rolling out to students.

Thanks again for viewing and providing feedback on my project. I'd love to connect with you on LinkedIn. ]]> 2022-08-29 01:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274123632 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274288809 Another Place activity incorporating the arts.

OpenStreetMap Haiku project generates poetry about your location. Students use this to discover what pulled data says about their current location.

This is paired with the place-based poetry exercise to ground students in the natural spaces in which they inhabit and how others have tagged their experience in the area.

In what ways does the community's description converge or diverge?
What surprises you?
What seems common knowledge?
What are you now recognizing about the space?
What newfound knowledge do you have about your experience?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_HX_yC64chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_HX_yC64c

]]> 2022-08-29 04:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274288809 Place chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274290793 "Given the place-based circumstances of human evolution and culture, global consciousness may be too broad a scale of care for us. To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth’s bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings, systems, and communities that mutually shape one another?"]]> 2022-08-29 04:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274290793 We are Related chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274314607 Reflective Audiovisual prompt to see ourselves as a blip in the planet earth. Who are we in relation to the earth? ]]> 2022-08-29 05:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274314607 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274316062 2022-08-29 05:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274316062 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274335614 2022-08-29 05:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274335614 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274337066 2022-08-29 05:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274337066 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274364529 2022-08-29 06:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274364529 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274379515 2022-08-29 06:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274379515 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274389996 That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.

]]> 2022-08-29 06:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274389996 A Return to Our Roots chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274392355 2022-08-29 06:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274392355 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274400515 is a black shambling bear
ruffling its wild back and tossing
mountains into the sea

is a black hawk circling
the burying ground circling the bones
picked clean and discarded

is a fish black blind in the belly of water
is a diamond blind in the black belly of coal

is a black and living thing
is a favorite child
of the universe
feel her rolling her hand
in its kinky hair
feel her brushing it clean]]> 2022-08-29 06:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2274400515 Follow the Drinking Gourd chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278487027 2022-09-01 00:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278487027 A Celestial Connection chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278492784 2022-09-01 00:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278492784 Kinship with the Land chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278496586 2022-09-01 00:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278496586 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278498297 2022-09-01 00:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278498297 chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278503835 Reading of Margaret Walker's Poems Southern Song and Sorrow Home.

Text Version of Poems
Sorrow Home
Southern Song]]> 2022-09-01 01:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278503835 Source of Question Prompts chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278553894 The source of the prompts in blue. https://humansandnature.org/kinship/]]> 2022-09-01 01:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2278553894 The Negro Speaks of Rivers chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282469787 I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

]]> 2022-09-05 03:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282469787 The Role of Water in African American History chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282471460 2022-09-05 03:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282471460 And the People Could Fly chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282581257 2022-09-05 05:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2282581257 Let the Sunshine In chelsdenn https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2287448498 2022-09-08 02:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chelsdenn/cgds6vlnvb9kn0wq/wish/2287448498