What is the relationship between community and self? What is the place of personal development in the work of addressing local issues and cultivating stronger local relationships? How can we hold space for conflict and for many generations in all that we do?
This webinar recording features a conversation with members of the Kheprw Institute (pronounced KEP-rah), an Indianapolis, Indiana, organization that helps train young leaders to become important assets in their communities as it invites community members of all ages into relationship and creative collaboration to address key local issues such as housing, food sovereignty, entrepreneurship and environmental justice.
Together, with Heather Keam from Tamarack, the Kheprw crew – including elders and youth – unpacked the meaning of self-mastery as it relates to community development, how we can use gifts and assets to empower communities and the importance of centering people in your work. Kheprw also explained their practice of centering the work of conflict transformation in their work, and why they choose the term “transformation” over “resolution.”
Learn more about and follow Kheprw’s work via their website, newsletter, or by joining their newly launched social media and community education platform Alkhemy+.
Speakers:
- Heather Keam, Tamarack Institute
- Imhotep Adisa, Kheprw Institute
- Paulette Fair, Kheprw Institute
- Chinyelu Mwaafrika, Kheprw Institute
- Ajani Johnson, Kheprw Institute
- Mimi Zakem, Kheprw Institute
- Diop Adisa, Kheprw Institute
- Terra McFarland, Kheprw Institute
- Jeru Qadar, Kheprw Institute
- Zelalem Temesgen, Kheprw Institute
- April Doner, Asset-Based Community Development Institute & Kheprw Institute
The Tamarack Institute is a connected force of more than 40,000 engaged practitioners and policymakers who work collaboratively to advance positive community change. This webinar was hosted by and originally posted on their site, https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca.
