Navigating Two Cultures for Change

Lowell Amiotte

Learn ABOUT (deep listening, information)

1. What are examples of policies and
procedures that are in place in
education? In communities? In
business?

2. What does it mean to be able to
navigate between two cultures?

3. What is AIM? (American Indian
Movement)

4. What does Lowell mean when he speaks
of the importance of radicals to point
out the problems and less radical people
to work to change them through the
system? Example?

5. Lowell says, “Policies and procedures are
important to be in place — if you don’t
like them you can work to change them.”
What does he mean by making sure that
they are changed in ways that aren’t
illegal, immoral or unethical?

Learn FROM (deep sharing, transformation

1. Have you ever been in a system where
you disagreed with policies and
procedures that were in place? What
did you do about it?

2. Have you ever been in a situation where
you were attempting to “navigate
between two different cultures?” How
did you do it, and how did you learn
about the culture that wasn’t your own?

3. Do you consider yourself to ever be
radical? Why or why not? If so, what do
you find yourself becoming radical
about? Why?

4. Have you ever felt the desire to change
something through immoral, illegal or
unethical means? Why or why not?