TY - JOUR AU - Goodchild, Melanie PY - 2021/02/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Relational Systems Thinking: That's How Change is Going to Come, From Our Earth Mother JF - Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change JA - JASC VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles (Peer-Reviewed) DO - 10.47061/jabsc.v1i1.577 UR - https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/577 SP - 75-103 AB - <p>We explore the notion of the need to decolonize systems thinking and awareness.&nbsp; Taking a specifically Indigenous approach to both knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, we look at awareness-based systems change via a Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) two-row visual code.&nbsp; The authors explore the sacred space between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of thinking and knowing, to identify pathways for peaceful co-existence of epistemologies.&nbsp; Based on conversations with Haudenosaunee elders and Western systems thinkers, along with data from a DoTS webinar, we identify cross-cultural dialogues as a doorway to healing, to transformation and to spiritual understanding.&nbsp; A reconnection with Mother Earth and with each other is fundamental to disrupting global patterns of trauma and mass corrosion of the spirit.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> ER -