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Scenario

How to navigate cultural appropriation concerns when learning buen vivir principles

Our community group has been studying buen vivir for months but we're all non-indigenous people and there's this unspoken tension about appropriation versus genuine learning. Half of us think we should be applying these teachings to our climate activism and the other half worry we're just extracting indigenous knowledge for our own purposes, and we can't have an honest conversation about it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group genuinely seeking wisdom finds itself paralyzed by the very extraction dynamics they're trying to understand and heal.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buen Vivir — Latin American indigenous worldview and technology?”

Peri

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