ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on Emotional Competency S1:1
Aerial image of an Artic braided river.
Over the past months, For The Wild has journeyed to the Yukon in partnership with Illuminating Worldviews — a space for examining the worldviews in which we find ourselves and to learn how they actively shape the material realities of our lives. This project, rooted and colored by the land of the Yukon invites questioning, examination, and future visioning centered in Indigenous ideology and the sentiment of journeying.
In this conversation, Ayana is joined by Dr. Lee Brown and Elder Mark Wedge to discuss emotional competency and how we can regulate ourselves amidst all that this world brings. What does it mean to have a colonized heart? Is it to separate ourselves from our emotions? Touching upon the role of feeling in overall wellbeing, they highlight how emotional regulation and connection are essential to the work of decolonization. This episode is a resounding testament to the healing that comes from embodiment and fully felt experience.
“If you’re emotionally competent, then you can do something very positive with that anger. You can make a change. But if you’re emotionally incompetent and your heart has not been educated, anger can be very destructive.”
Dr. Lee Brown
Dr. Lee Brown is the former Director of the Institute of Aboriginal Health in the College of Health Disciplines and the Indigenous Doctoral Program in the Department of Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia, where he wrote his Doctoral Thesis entitled: Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Develop of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy.
Mark Wedge
Mark Wedge, or Aan Goosh oo, has long been actively involved in economic and social development, land claims negotiations, ceremonial leadership, and dispute resolution in his community and throughout Canada and the United States. Mark currently sits on the Board of Governors of Yukon University, chairs the Tagish River Habitat Protection Area Steering Committee, is a guiding Elder of the Illuminating Worldviews project, and is leading his Nation's treaty negotiations with British Columbia.
♫ The music from this episode is “After the Rain” by Cole Pulice courtesy of Leaving Records, “Hyacinth and Apollo” by Carlisle Evans Peck, and “Marakaté” by Palo-Mah.
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Our Partners
This series was produced thanks to the generous support of the team at Illuminating Worldviews, held by the RIVER collective and Northern Council for Global Cooperation. We are so grateful to the organizers, speakers, and audience members who made this series possible.
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