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On this episode of The Another Way To See It podcast, we talk about what Bearing Witness actually means. We hear it being said a lot right now and it’s such an important concept to integrate, if we want to create a world where healing is possible and all beings can thrive. We like to call it Bearing With- Ness because it means that we start being with our own discomfort  in order to build the capacity to hold, stay close to, and be with the pain and suffering in the people and world around us, to impact generative change. 

“Witness” is a powerful and evocative word. This word has “extraordinary moral and cultural force today” because of its connections with concepts of suffering, justice, and truth. “Witnessing” is often seen as involving at least two parties—a witness, who testifies, and a secondary witness, who listens and, importantly, acknowledges what they have heard. Such witnessing has become highly visible in the form of survivor testimony at inquiries and commissions addressing claims of historical and ongoing injustices and human rights abuses in settler-colonial and transitional societies.  Witnessing, particularly in the context of telling stories of human rights violations, often includes a request to the audience to become morally accountable for an event.”

Sourced from-  Bearing Witness: Creating the Conditions of Justice for First Nations Children Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2021

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