Embodying Racial Justice for White Organizers, Activists and Coaches Memphis TN
Thursday, June 27-Sunday, June 30, 2024
9am–5pm
Size: 40 people
Teachers: Dara Silverman, Cari Caldwell, J Sikes, Sarah Abbott
This in-person, interactive course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself as an white organizer/ activist/ coach inside of liberation movements in the US at this time. Instructors Dara Silverman, Cari Caldwell, J Sikes and Sarah Abbott are embodiment teachers and social change consultants whose work is based on their community experience in community, environmental and racial justice movements and training within the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics.
"Being part of this cohort has felt like finally coming home, as I've discovered a missing piece in my journeys of racial justice and undoing white supremacy: the body! MY body! Our bodies, together! I feel more hopeful, feeling the palpable change that becomes more possible as we work with our literal cells and tissues, making room for new and more liberatory ways of being. And, what a tremendous gift to get to do this work in community, helping me to break through the lies white supremacy has told me about being all alone, getting to feel instead my belonging in this collectivity"
–Nicole Bauman, Facilitator-
The budget for this course only works when participants register at the level that matches their income and/or their institution's budget.
Donations and sponsorships are always welcome.
The true cost per participant is $1250, which includes: paying living wages to the team of five trainers, shared breakfast and lunch as well as snacks, drinks, and treats.
We are offering this sliding scale for tuition:
Sustainer Rate - $3,000-$4,000+: for those who have generational or inherited wealth.
Supporter Rate - $2,000-$2,999: for those comfortably paying their rent or mortgage and those being sponsored by an organization with sufficient budget.
True Rate - $1,000-$1,999: for those who have a regular income and are paying their mortgage or rent.
Equity Rate - $750-$999: for those who are challenged to make ends meet.
A minimum of 20% of funds will be redistributed to support local Black and Indigenous groups, and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers. In 2023, Embodying Racial Justice redistributed over $50,000 to Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity from course fees.
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✓ You want to deepen in your embodied awareness, practice and learnings from the body up
✓ You are interested in bringing your body/Somatics into action in your work and life
✓ You want a community of practice which will support you to keep exploring, letting your body reveal more depth, and unearthing your longings
✓ You are an organizer, consultant, trainer, coach or activist, this is a place for you to be deepening and building your commitment to racial justice
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✓ More access to aliveness
✓ Moving towards more choice under pressure and through the contradictions of this current moment
✓ Deeper understanding of embodied anti-racist frameworks
✓ Moving from old shape to new shape in current political conditions
✓ Becoming more congruent, aligning embodiment, words and actions with our longings
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Four days of in-person practice
Pre-work and curated reading list
Embodied daily and weekly practices to take home
“I found it nourishing to be physically present with a group of white people committed to anti-racism and to examining and lovingly transforming our own conditioned responses in the world. Practicing grounding exercises with others and exploring my own responses with partners, often with physical connection, opened my full body awareness more deeply than was possible through online training or individual practice. I appreciated the exercises around assessments and will be bringing learnings from that practice to my work within teams. I experienced a sense of collective commitment and community support with our workshop group. In particular, taking the workshop with two colleagues deepened my sense of connection and support with them in our anti-racist and generative conflict work.”
–Teresa McHugh, Sierra Club, Central Region Organizing Director