Published Work

 

Action Research Project
March 2023

Project and final report titled “Walking in Truth: Unsettling, Decolonizing, and Learning Relational Ways of Being for Key Organizations on Gabriola Island” by Tobi Elliott.

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An Engaged Leadership Project in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Leadership (Royal Roads University, 2023).

In service and partnership with the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of the Gabriola Museum.

The purpose for this Engaged Leadership Project (ELP) for my MA in Leadership Studies Capston was to invite community organizations, non-profits, local governments, and other agencies on Gabriola Island to examine their existing processes and structures, discover ways they might decolonize and integrate reconciliation principles into their organizations, and to explore new ways of engaging and operating in order to create a foundation for stronger working relationships with the Snuneymuxw First Nation (SFN).

The graphic on the left was produced to help gently remind us how to live and walk from a place of cultural humility, in learning, as we seek to let go of our own narratives and learn better ways of belonging to the land together.

With thanks to all participants, and especially Lisa Wilcox, who is a pivotal voice in shaping my understanding of the lived reality and experience of Indigenous Peoples in the Gulf Islands.