Inclusion is not an academic or professional or political word. It is deeply personal, moral, and foundational to a just society. This season will focus on conversations with individuals who each have a perspective that is unique to their place in life, their gathered wisdom, and their particular hopes or thoughts about who could be made to feel more welcome, and maybe what they see happening in that regard in their world.

Because the topic of inclusion can spark deeply felt trauma histories or blaming/shaming sorts of dialogues, I wanted to carefully enter this conversation with questions designed to probe individual experiences, memories, and ideas rather than abstract and other-centred opinions. We know we are not getting this right in so many ways. That's not even a question. What I am curious about is what it feels like for various people to be included, and where they see the opportunities, barriers, gaps, and emerging or transformative spaces for their particular way of being.

I am starting, therefore, right here, with myself. This gives you all a chance to hear the types of questions I'm asking, and, not necessarily the type of answers I'm looking for (that's counter to the whole idea, after all!), but one person's answers.

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