Kinship and Indigeneity Across Cultures and Time | Dr. Lyla June Johnston & Angharad Wynne

In a time of rising polarisation, many of us feel stuck — unsure how to speak our views honestly without damaging relationships. Join us at our upcoming 1-day and 4-day Depolarisation Training sessions and discover practical, evidence-based tools for understanding and working with polarisation as it shows up in real life. 1-day Depolarisation Training: https://ow.ly/R1ne50XWAJH 4-day Depolarisation Training: https://ow.ly/6qTo50XWAJY Join two visionary leaders for a rare conversation that brings Diné and Welsh Indigenous traditions together to explore what facing polycrisis looks like through the lens of kinship, facilitated by Justine Huxley. This event was a collaboration between St Ethelburga's and Kincentric Leadership. About the Speakers: Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans. Angharad Wynne has spent much of her life exploring the landscapes and lore of this land. Since childhood, she has followed her feet along pathways back through the portals of ancient myth, folklore, history, song and poetry of Britain, and particularly of her native Wales. Today, she draws together the fragments of our tradition, that can help guide and sustain a living spiritual practice, connected to this land and her creatures. She shares her learning and explores understanding and contemporary practice through retreats, storytelling gatherings, ceremony, dreaming circles, writings and pilgrimages. These are conceived as radical acts of re-membering our soulful, deep humanity and re-weaving ourselves back into fully engaged participation within the web of life. Angharad is a published poet and writer, a storyteller, speaker, teacher and expedition leader. She is the founder of Dreaming the Land and Animate Earth Collective and leads Dadeni, a three year programme exploring the native spiritual traditions and practices of the British Isles. This talk is a part of our Faith and Moral Courage series, where we are exploring how we can reconnect people with their faith or deepest values, so they can meet the many crises we face with courage. This project is funded by Fetzer. To find out more about our Faith and Moral Courage project, visit: https://stethelburgas.org/projects/mo... To find out more about Kincentric Leadership, visit: https://www.kincentricleadership.org/ 0:00 - Introduction from St Ethelburgas 5:29 - Introduction from Justine Huxley 12:21 - What is your definition of indigeneity? 26:52 - Where did your people find the courage to weather colonisation? (Question for Lyla June) 34:41 - How do you understand your journey into indigeneity? (Question for Angharad) 41:26 - How do you experience the relationship between indigeneity and the more than human world? 55:37 - What have you heard from your co-speaker that has expanded your thinking? 1:02:20 - Performance from Angharad 1:06:01 - Performance from Lyla June 1:16:57 - Is there a prayer or story you turn to when you're feeling broken? 1:28:51 - Audience Q&A 1:46:23 - Closing