Personal Reparations: A Path to Mutual Healing and Liberation
“The midpoint between truth and reconciliation is reparations.”
Dr. David Ragland, Co-Founder and Co-ED, The Truth Telling Project; Director, Grassroots Reparations Campaign; Lecturer on Reparations as Spiritual Practice, Harvard University
In settler-colonial nations like Australia, Canada, and the United States, the historical and ongoing ramifications of land theft, slavery, white supremacy, wealth inequity, and harmful government policies mean that reparations are needed. However, national dialogues about reparations can often be fraught with denial and resistance. Too often, reparations are associated with shame and punishment rather than mutual healing and liberation. Frequently, institutional and governmental reparations stall out before they even begin.
Elyshia Holliday and Hilary Giovale have been cultivating a solution to this complex problem over the last six years, by supporting settlers of European descent in designing personal reparations plans and bringing them to life within their families and communities. Their methodology leans into truth-telling about our families’ and nations’ histories, honest self-reflection, and ritualized apology and forgiveness. Elyshia and Hilary have guided hundreds of people through this process. As a result, many have developed a newfound sense of right relations, purpose, and joy.
In this interactive session, Elyshia and Hilary will compassionately guide the group to courageously draw on our strengths, interests, and histories and begin developing personal reparations plans that are sustainable for the long-term. Everyone who has the capacity to attend webinars also has the capacity to begin this process, one step at a time.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
4 – 6pm PDT (UTC-7)
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