S3 E12 Pt 2: Elder Share: Hazen and Cobe - After Forgiveness
For the first time on this podcast we will be inviting our listeners and Patreon members to what we are lifting up as an "elder share."
Whenever we offer our listeners and members an "elder share," we kindly request that you pause, open and shift (ie., POS)
Pause - come to a still point
Open - turn all attention to heart center
Shift - breathe in and out of your heart center (4x)
This call to action will be approximately 60 seconds, which will lend our "elder share" the honor and respect we all really want to witness in our own families, communities, nations.
From Broken Lands Trust's strategic lens, we intend to allow an "elder share" to be of use to the emergence of communal wisdom and vital practices. In the sectors professional organizational growth and leadership development, BLT will always hold in confidence each "elder share" as a means to talk about premature and performative apologies that may form on a phenomenon we call trauma bonding.
When there are no restorative justice actions before an apology is issued it can signify an existing paradoxical attachment. This strong emotional bond might keep our vulnerable elders, as survivors, in a state of learned helplessness and within a one-way emotional bond with the entity that is "the church," whomever that individual is within that leadership authority.
It can change multiple times, and that elder survivor still, subconsciously, will want to be a "good Indian" for that person. Too often, white church leadership want to rush to apologies, forgiveness and reconciliation.
BLT intends to hold this as counterfeit Christianity, and invite our listeners into confronting this difficult truth along with us, so that we may not forfeit a beautiful and harmonious future together here.
BLT intends for every community and learner who encounters this "elder share" to consider a commitment to restorative calls to action that are intertribally or tribally created, approved and continuously monitored.
