No Easy Answers: Perspectives on Ethics

Intro

I’m Jess Winnicki-Reinsch, Art Therapist living and working in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory. I am honoured to be here today to have a conversation with Bonface Beti, to hear his stories and unique perspectives. I am a white cis-gendered, english speaking woman. I understand that the privileges I have benefited from because of these identities are strongly connected to colonization, patriarchy, and systemic racism. I acknowledge that I am a settler on this land and I have a duty to continue to educate myself on being a treaty person, and what it means to be living and working in a way that is aligned with Truth and Reconciliation."

Winnipeg land acknowledgment: I acknowledge that I am on Treaty 1 Territory, the traditional gathering place of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the traditional homeland of the Métis people. Every time I acknowledge this truth, I have an invitation and an opportunity to reflect on what I do and what we as a province and a people can do to make Manitoba a better place for everyone who lives here. I would also like to acknowledge that our drinking water in Winnipeg is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. 

I would now like to introduce Bonface Njeresa Beti, an Expressive Arts Therapist and practitioner working at the intersection of trauma-informed practice and peace in Africa and internationally. I am so glad and honoured to be here with you today.

Land Acknowledgement for Nairobi: I acknowledge that Nairobi is the unceded territory of the Maasai indigenous people living in Kenya and Tanzania, a Maasai word for Enkare-Nairobi or the place of cool waters.

The title of this podcast episode we are recording is ‘No Easy Answers’ and I thought perhaps that talking about how you came to that title would be a good place for us to start...