7 Wrap Up
Bringing it all together: Being an Equity-Based Co-Creation Ambassador
Let’s return to the intended learning outcomes for this course – what skills have you begun developing to be an effective equity-based co-creation ambassador?
Critical self-reflection to articulate one’s positionality and its potential impact on interactions with equity-deserving communities.
We began this course by spending time understanding power, privilege, and positionality. We understand through Kimberley Crenshaw’s lens of intersectionality that different aspects of our identity create our unique perspective and experiences. Different aspects of our identify grant us access to power, while others may not. It is our responsibility as EqCC Ambassadors to recognize our positionality, our power and privilege, and our responsibilities to our communities.
How might we use our points of privilege to amplify voices who have knowledge and experience relevant to discussions or decisions?
Honouring a range of worldviews, which includes listening to, acknowledging historical harms, unlearning harmful myths, and valuing lived experience.
In the next sections of this course, we discussed equity-deserving groups and the extensive historical and ongoing harms many groups are subjected to. To be an EqCC Ambassador, it is our responsibility to honour the worldviews of people who share or differ from our own lived experiences. This involves a process of learning and unlearning – a process that continues in perpetuity.
What stereotypes have we been fed? What purpose do these narratives serve? How might we find strength in creating space for diverse worldviews and lived experiences?
Critical allyship with equity-deserving communities, working in solidarity and collective action to identify and resist unjust structures that produce systemic inequities.
In the final sections of this course, we discuss what critical allyship. The most important concept to remember is that allyship is a verb! You cannot describe yourself as an ally; your consistent actions may be recognized as being in allyship with an equity-deserving group only by this group itself.
How can we work in solidarity with the efforts of equity-deserving groups?
Personal Action Plan
As your final assessment for this microcredential course, you will be creating an action plan of your own from the lessons throughout this course. We recommend reflecting on the knowledge you gained, the attitudes or beliefs you are developing, and the actions or behaviours you can begin engaging in.
- Describe your own positionality, particularly within the context of EqCC efforts or communities you may be involved in. How might you use your points of privilege to amplify voices who have knowledge and experience relevant to discussions or decisions?
- In relation to your EqCC context, what stereotypes affect the folks involved in your context? What purpose do these narratives serve? How might we find strength in creating space for diverse worldviews and lived experiences? How can you work in solidarity with the efforts of equity-deserving groups within your context?
- In EqCC, we often talk about the idea of “sowing and growing” – to sow the seeds of connection, trust, and collaboration so that we can promote grassroots growth and change. What might sowing and growing look like for you? How might you find your likeminded people? In what contexts might you raise these conversations within your networks? Who and what are your supports?
- How might you sustain these efforts going forward?
