5 Mondays Online
Oct. 16, 23 & 30, Nov. 6 & 13 2023
10:00am-12:00pm PT // 12:00-2:00pm CT // 1:00pm-3:00pm ET
Are you longing to deepen into your commitments to racial justice in community with other white folks?
Are you seeking to bring more embodiment to your work for racial justice?
Unraveling Whiteness is a course that invites you into conversation and learning with other white folks living into racial justice commitments. Pre-recorded videos on themes for each session will be fodder for the experiential exercises in each live session. Live sessions will allow for juicy intellectual, emotional, and spiritual engagement with how white supremacy patterns show up in our lives despite our best efforts.
Participants will be invited into a variety of paired and small group exercises within each live session to connect with both our antiracist role models and our own complicity in perpetuating systemic racism. Invitations to begin unraveling the legacies of whiteness in our family lines and considering clear, concrete, actions upon leaving the course will also be woven in. This course invites you to explore the wisdom of your emotions and the scope of your imagination as equally important learning tools for addressing systemic racism alongside understanding terminology and an analysis of power.
The Work that Reconnects (WTR) Spiral forms the container in which the overall series is held and individual sessions are designed. WTR is a group of teachings, meditations, community exercises, and grounding practices, developed by Joanna Macy, that are built around the belief that we are all interconnected beings in the web of life.