Reckon With Practice: Reparative Action

Reckon With focuses fully on relational change. Repair requires European-Americans to embrace rather than dismiss the “white” people in our lives.

Participants are guided to map out: what “white” people, systems and resources am I connected to? What harm is happening there? This is how each participant determines their reckoning efforts: one intimate & one institutional, which they work towards repairing. They envision both the longterm possibility of what that relationship and institution could look like in 50 years if they reckon effectively every day? And also identify that tiniest, most immediate next step which they commit to taking and then debrief at every session.

This is tactically important: relationships are where where we have the greatest influence. It’s also spiritually vital: our integrity diminishes when we abandon our own.