Visual Legacies & Posters
Our Intercultural Strategies flagship program, Belonging Matters Conversations (previously Finding Home Dialogues), often begins with participants sharing stories about why home matters and connecting with each other. Participants identify their priority issues then further conversations are customized to address those priorities. After each conversation session, the discussion highlights are typically synthesized into visual legacies.
Visual legacies are images / media / publications (e.g. posters, videos, social media memes, etc.) that are collaboratively created between Belonging Matters Conversations participants (people with lived experience) and the hosting facilitation team to synthesize key insights and commitments for ongoing reflection, awareness and learning. The content of the visual legacies typically represents the participants’ journey—the values and insights that support their voice, dignity and leadership.
The benefits of visual legacies are many. Visual legacies are a great way for participants to showcase and be valued for their expertise. They also provide an opportunity to build collaboration on a concrete outcome that often leads to increased awareness and action in the community and in the systems the participants interface with.
Past Project Visual Legacies
Belonging Matters Conversations For Leaders
Participants: Leaders Cohort (November 2022)
Participants: Leaders Cohort (May 2022)
Participants: Leaders Cohort (February 2022)
Cerebral Palsy Awareness
Participating Group(s): Cerebral Palsy Association of BC (CPABC)
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Overdose Crisis (Richmond, BC)
Participating Group(s): Addicts Working for Change
Host & Partner Organization(s):
CPABC, Turning Point Recovery Society, Richmond Addiction Services Society, Vancouver Coastal Health, City of Richmond, CHIMO Community Services, Richmond Division of Family Practice, SUCCESS, Richmond Mental Health RCFC, BC Housing, BCEHS, Richmond Public Library, Richmond Fire Rescue, Coastal Mental Health, Touchstone Family Association
Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Relationships
Transforming Poverty into Money Confidence
Participating Group(s): Newcomer parents with young children living on a limited budget
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Indigenous Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren
Participating Group(s): Indigenous Grandmothers Raising Their Grandkids
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Spirit of the Children Society
Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Community Gardens
Participating Group(s): PosAbilities
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Vancouver community gardeners
Affordable Housing
Participating Group(s): West End Seniors’ Network
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): Newcomers
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): LGBT2S Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Newcomer Integration
Participating Group(s): Newcomer Chinese & Korean Intergenerational
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Mandarin)
(Korean)
Participating Group(s): Iranian Elders
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Farsi)
(Farsi)
(Farsi)
Participating Group(s): Newcomer Chinese Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Mandarin)
Love Fraud
Participating Group(s): Steeves Manor
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Elder Financial Abuse Awareness
Participating Group(s): Afghan Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Dari)
(Dari)
Participating Group(s): South Asian Punjabi Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Punjabi)
(Punjabi)
Seniors Isolation & Transitions
Participating Group(s): New Westminster Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): Multicultural Seniors
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): Hillside Seniors Health Centre
Host & Partner Organization(s):
Participating Group(s): Mandarin Speaking Grandparents
Host & Partner Organization(s):
(Mandarin)
(Mandarin)
(Mandarin)
As a society, we need to shift from a reactive mode to a prevention mode like what Belonging Matters provides.
As a society, we need to shift from a reactive mode to a prevention mode like what Belonging Matters Conversations provides. The more that we hear the voices of people impacted the most, the more respectful the process and the better the outcomes.
We need to support grassroots and community empowerment processes to achieve prevention and real change.
Belonging Matters Conversations gave me more confidence in myself and my strengths.
The Belonging Matters Conversations gave me more confidence in myself and my strengths. As well, the dialogue process helped me to accept my cerebral palsy and made me feel more comfortable talking about my disability. Importantly, the experience made me aware of what’s possible on both personal and community levels.
I am so grateful for Jessie's guidance in helping to address a long-overdue need for more connection, resources, and awareness in the community. I also appreciate the connections that I have made through these conversations and I look forward to continuing with this group.
...help us find and grow a sense of home...
The Belonging Matters Conversations help us find and grow a sense of home within ourselves and in our own lives. We then bring that sense of home out into the community.
An international speaker, trainer, and consultant, Jessie Sutherland works with organizations and communities to engage diversity, build belonging and ignite intercultural collaboration. Her approach creates sustainable community change that effectively addresses a wide range of complex social problems.
Jessie holds an M.A. in Dispute Resolution, is the founder of Intercultural Strategies, and is the innovator of the award-winning Belonging Matters Conversations series and capacity-building framework. She is also a TEDx speaker and author of the best-selling book, Worldview Skills: Transforming Conflict from the Inside Out.
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