DAY 3 : Leny Strobel — Learning How to Dwell in a Place: A Practice in Decolonization
What does it mean to Dwell in a Place? How do we know when we have been claimed by a Place? How does this knowing change our daily habits of seeing, being, thinking, doing? What is the Story that has claimed us and led us to Dwell in a Place? This workshop is inspired by Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places, my indigenous mentors, and the framework of Ethnoautobiography.
Leny Mendoza Strobel is Kapampangan from the Philippines and is currently a settler on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands (Sonoma County, Ca). Her work has focused on the process of decolonization and re-indigenization. Most recently, she facilitates a local place-based cohort with the vision of "repair and reparations" with local indigenous communities. She is a founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies and is Professor Emeritus of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She tends a garden and chickens with Cal.
Leny Mendoza Strobel is Kapampangan from the Philippines and is currently a settler on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands (Sonoma County, Ca). Her work has focused on the process of decolonization and re-indigenization. Most recently, she facilitates a local place-based cohort with the vision of "repair and reparations" with local indigenous communities. She is a founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies and is Professor Emeritus of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She tends a garden and chickens with Cal.