I know that, to many, I sound quite cheesy when I say that Dr. Brown’s work has changed my life. It’s fine, I like cheese. And she has – because she changed the way I think and react. Sometimes. 🙂
Author: Cǎtǎ Gǎrdescu
I am a connector, a lover of all things beautiful and a fighter when things get hard. I try each day to live truthfully, learn as much as I possibly can and push myself in the right directions. I am learning to trust my gut and my instincts and embrace uncertainty.
When in the next airport, check your bias in as well as your luggage. You will be surprised.
There is no need to invest in unconscious bias tests or search the internet for one. We can simply do the exercise of paying attention to our thoughts when we travel.
Feeling worse to get better: a story of unschooling in midlife.
I realize that what I am going through is a process of unlearning and re-learning happening in parallel and that it is hard – especially in my fifth decade of life. At times it feels like I am singing two different tunes with the same mouth.
Operational Staff inclusion training: a necessary step towards more truly inclusive school environments.
Schools are learning organizations. I hear that so often. Shouldn’t then the expectation of anyone who works in a school, be it the Director, a teacher, the secretary or the cleaner, be that they not only receive a salary for their job but also that they leave it (whether upon retirement or for another place) a more educated person?
Racism across the border is easier to digest than the one at home. A story of selective anti-racism.
My journey to awareness took me first outside of my own country. I guess it had to make sense in larger concepts, in more distant contexts, before I could look in my own garden.
The biggest barrier in my current education process: my previous education process.
I learned that you do not question the one in front of you, for they are all knowing, that mistakes mean shame and danger, that we are all in a competition because there is only so much pie and we don’t all get a piece of it – we have to grab at it.
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