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WORLDVIEWS and CODES OF CONDUCT
WORLDVIEWS and CODES OF CONDUCT
How has colonization impacted how we understand the world
How has colonization impacted how we understand the world
and how we engage within it?
and how we engage within it?
We’re offering resources as prompts to help you explore your personal and collective worldviews and codes of conduct.
What is a Worldview?
What is a Worldview?
It is not about the physical reality of the world that you and I live in; that is science. Instead:
It is the metaphysical, or philosophical, or ideological reality of the world you and I live in.
It governs how we live, not where we live. It defines why we live, what we live for, what we appreciate, what we reject, what we are passionate about, how we explain our experiences, and what we detest.
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Why do we hang on to our worldviews?
We have been mis-educated
Want to belong
We want to feel secure
We believe our meaningful experiences validate our worldview and believe if they are meaningful to us they must be true for someone else
We believe our worldview is moral and/or just
It’s familiar. Challenging worldviews is disorientating and scary- we want to avoid this
We believe the time has past where action could/should have been taken.
We want to keep the privilege associated with it
We believe our worldview is complete
We think we're right
We're not sure about the boundary between our personality and our worldview.
What are the CUC codes of Conduct?
What are the CUC codes of Conduct?
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
Our national Sunday services are an excellent source for us to understand the collective Canadian Unitarian Universalist worldview and codes of conduct. During these services, we speak to ourselves about ourselves within a ritual that prescribes our norms, rules, responsibilities, and proper practices of an individual or an organization.
Watch this youtube recording of the most recent worship service and write down in a shared document the ways that you notice we declare our worldview and codes of conduct. Be sure to write your name next to your observations. If you read a comment that sparks curiosity, insight, question, clarification, etc., please respond to it using the comment feature. We aren't here to criticize the Worship service, but rather to witness the culture we participate in.
For example: "Amber here! I noticed that..... and what that tells me about our collective UU worldview is..."
Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts
What is my worldview?
How did I develop it?
Which parts of my worldview might I potentially change?
Which parts are set, and not something I would consider changing? Why? Why Not?
In what ways might my worldview be limiting and/or limited?
In what way is my worldview similar and/or different from Unitarian worldview?
Where did I learn my codes of conduct? What are those codes? How are they similar or different from Unitarian codes?
What does uncolonizing my worldview and codes of conduct look like to me in my life?
What does uncolonizing my worldview and codes of conduct look like to me in my life?
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