120 Building Real Community - The Differences Between Inclusion and Belonging
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What is the difference between inclusion and real belonging in a community? Can you have one without the other? Yes, indeed, you can.
Unfortunately, there are too many groups where you can be included without feeling like you truly belong. What is the missing ingredient? Trust. Trust, which starts at the individual level, is central to a community and fosters an environment that feels safe for all members.
This episode is a personal one.
Book and Reading Resources from June 3rd Podcast
For those of you whose hearts are hurting right now and who want to do more to better understand and fight racism, it looks like there are some really good resources below.
https://medium.com/wake-up-call/a-detailed-list-of-anti-racism-resources-a34b259a3eea
Black Lives Matter Reading List: https://www.booktable.net/black-lives-matter-reading-list For kids: https://www.instagram.com/theconsciouskid/. Their Patreon page is full of good resources.
Some other books that have been recommended to me:
My Grandmother's Hands - This is an excellent work for understanding through an intergenerational racial trauma and healing lens, and explicitly offers exercises for police, which is interesting in the current context.
Mindful of Race - While politically left-leaning, I really like the tie in to a mindfulness framework and Buddhist psychology.
Why We Are Polarized - I like this a lot because of its examination of race x politics x identity
White Fragility - Though challenging, I think this is an important text for anyone seeking to understand the current landscape of anti-racism work. I also think it is important to read prior to reading texts by people of color as she names a lot of the issues that people of color experience and feel when interacting with white people and, in particular, talking to them about race. From this book, one could then take on Me and White Supremacy, if they were inspired to examine themselves more deeply.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.4 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:19.6 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host |
| 0:23.8 | Matt Dixon. And this week, well, it's a little shorter one this week, guys, but it's an important |
| 0:30.5 | one nonetheless. Today, it's all about belonging. Inclusion, being a part of a community. Inspired by the events of the last week |
| 0:41.8 | or so over the US, you betcha. But I do hope that the short story that I give today and the message |
| 0:48.9 | inspires you to engage in community, to foster an inclusive mindset and engage in your contract |
| 0:56.1 | as being a positive active participant in the communities that you're a part of. Your performance, |
| 1:02.5 | and of those around you absolutely flourish when we do things together. What do they say? Power of a team |
| 1:09.2 | or something like that, yeah? Well well today we're going to dive in |
| 1:12.5 | and explore it but before we do go rummaging around in our meat and potatoes we've got some |
| 1:18.7 | important elements to check off first oh don't forget to stay till the end today it's the third |
| 1:24.1 | instalment of the peter minute by now i I'm going to be confusing you on that section, |
| 1:30.0 | but, well, the rewards will only come on the patient on that one, I promise you. |
| 1:34.9 | But let's get today rolling with our Squatty update. |
| 1:39.6 | Over the past couple of weeks, our athletes have begun to gain access to swimming pools. And for many, |
| 1:46.4 | it's been almost 100 days of no swimming. Of course, the questions are there. How long is it |
| 1:53.2 | going to take to get better? How far behind them are going to be? Is this ever going to get easier? |
| 1:59.5 | And so let's use today's squaddy update to provide perspective for the listeners, |
| 2:04.1 | you guys that are swimmers or triathletes and are just dipping your toe back into the swing pool. |
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