Stone in the road – MUN Gazette

May 18, 2023

Miawpukek First Nation, Memorial collaboration encourages ‘real listening’

About a year ago, Memorial University hosted at knowledge-sharing event titled, Two-Eared Listening for Deeper Understanding.

For Chief Mi’sel Joe of the Miawpukek First Nation, the three-day gathering was “a paving stone for the roadmap ahead . . . building towards the restorative justice that we need to be doing.”

The gathering was an opportunity for attendees to listen without distraction to the life stories and experiences of Indigenous elders and leaders, and to reflect on what they were hearing.

For Dr. Dorothy Vaandering, a professor in the Faculty of Education and a collaborator on the conference, working with Chief Mi’sel Joe has been “transformative, and very humbling in a lot of ways.”

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