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Locating yourself is borrowed from Indigenous Methodologies. Whenever you are speaking, facilitating or teaching it is important to contextualize yourself. That is, to tell us about yourself, not in a shallow way, but the things that really influence your perspective.

How do you do that?
Words, voice, music, pictures . . .

On your blog I asked you to begin the process and today, we will refine it.

Unlike most of the questions we ask in our modern society, the right questions, the ones that matter quite deeply, are really difficult to answer:

Who am I ?
Is there an I?
Where is I?
What means the most to me?
What is truly important?

Locating places you at the centre of "stuff". . ideas, things, . . others may experience this stuff too, and it's there you'll find some common ground.


Location is external and internal both:

Where am I now? physically
Where am I now? emotionally, mentally?

For me, Dr. Yun:

1) I was raised Chinese- American in Northern California; that's right "an American."
2) I have been a teacher for many years and now am a university professor.
3) I teach courses in music and global citizenship here at WLU, at UW, and York where I teach in the world music department.
4) I am now part of a cute little mixed race family with two girls 10 and 12, and my lovely wife who is prof of poli sci at WLU (very smart person)

I was raised Catholic, but now align more comfortably with esoteric Buddhism . . .

I work with community music because I wish to honour the interconnectedness of all of us with the land and one another . .

I bring to you a wilingness to drop the role of teacher and be a guide, a facilitator, to help us to be brighter, more empathetic, and more joyful researchers, students, learners. . . I bring a way forward that is not labour intensive and for which you don't need to cut out part of yourself to pass the course.