In this episode, Cárol Mejía, MSW, helps us to reorient our minds and spirits by evoking the powerful metaphor of water and by reviving our sense of wonder. The work of decolonizing social work not only includes "dream[ing] up new processes alongside communities that we belong to, dream[ing] up new solutions that eliminate social work's ties to the carceral system" but also restoring our powers of self-actualization. Through her evocation of the ocean, Cárol opens up new possibilities, new orientations, as she employs water to disrupt white supremacist capitalist patriarchal understandings of time, power, relationships, and healing. In so doing, she asks us to relinquish the impulse to box people in and impose our interpretations, meanings, and expectations onto others. Be moved by the wise, water-like quality of Cárol's spirit, as you soak in her wisdom and brilliance.
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In this episode, Cárol Mejía, MSW, helps us to reorient our minds and spirits by evoking the powerful metaphor of water and by reviving our sense of wonder. The work of decolonizing social work not only includes "dream[ing] up new processes alongside communities that we belong to, dream[ing] up new solutions that eliminate social work's ties to the carceral system" but also restoring our powers of self-actualization. Through her evocation of the ocean, Cárol opens up new possibilities, new orientations, as she employs water to disrupt white supremacist capitalist patriarchal understandings of time, power, relationships, and healing. In so doing, she asks us to relinquish the impulse to box people in and impose our interpretations, meanings, and expectations onto others. Be moved by the wise, water-like quality of Cárol's spirit, as you soak in her wisdom and brilliance.
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