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Practice 4 Relationality: Unlearning Disconnection<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Melissa Jay, Sandra Collins, Janelle Baker, Zuraida Dada, and Lisa Gunderson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book: Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care<\/a>
Published: June 1, 2025
Publisher: Counselling Concepts<\/a>
Chapter DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/96932354<\/a>
Book ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8
Format: ePub
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In Practice 4 Melissa, Sandra, and Janelle invite deeper awareness of practitioner positionality within colonial relationships. Janelle illustrates the All My Relations Teaching through an Indigenous, community-based, berry monitoring project, grounded the chapter in relationality and relationship to land and place. Throughout the chapter the authors invite readers to honour their shared humanity and interconnectedness. They reflect on how counselling, psychology, and other healthcare professions came to a place where they risk doing more harm than good, because of their roots in colonial histories and ideologies. They examine critically the colonial and individualist worldviews and the persistence of coloniality and white supremacy. The authors draw on the examples of ecological violence and racial violence as continued legacies of coloniality. They invite readers to consider their own positionality with colonial relationships as part of their own consciousness-raising. They propose that by recognizing our interconnectedness\u2014as human beings, clients, students, practitioners, and educators, and as shared inhabitants of the earth\u2014we can lean into relational accountability. The chapter ends with an invitation to action: coming together in solidarity to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our professions and our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter is enhanced through the practice illustrations provided by the following co-authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n