Replication Toolkit Phase:

Gather & Ground

Guiding Tip: Unapologetically stay grounded in who you are and why you exist.

We can so easily be coerced into western ways of being and doing, but our wisdom cannot surface when we are not our true selves.

Ceremony and ritual connects us to our true commitments - our community, ancestors and future relatives.

Only they can show the way.

To Gather & Ground

  1. Engage Devoted Champions

  2. Gauge Readiness

  3. Express Purpose, Vision and Guiding Principles

  4. Outline Governance and Roles

Steps to Gather & Ground

Reflection on Gathering & Grounding:

Form and lead through a devoted alliance.

The Partners were drawn together out of steadfast devotion* to their babies, families, communities and ancestors.

Their actions stemmed from an unwavering commitment to reclaim cultural strengths, heal from historical trauma, dismantle systemic inequities and forge a future where their communities thrive.

Devotion has sustained them in success and challenge.

*Devotion : loyalty, fealty, and faithfulness to something or someone to which one is bound by pledge, duty or love.

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