Embodying Racial Justice Intensive: Whidbey Island, WA
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Thursday, August 3-6
8:30am–5:30pm
This in-person, interactive course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself as a white organizer/ activist/ coach working inside of liberation movements in the US at this time. My work is based on my organizing experience in community, environmental and racial justice movements and my training within the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics.
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The cost for this course is $750-4,000 sliding scale. The real cost per participant is $1,400.
The cost of the course includes: paying living wages to the team of four trainers, camping on site, shared breakfast, lunch and dinners as well as snacks, and drinks, and organizing and administrative fees.
30% of funds will be sent to support Black organizing. In 2022, I sent over $50,000 to BOLD-Black Organizing for Dignity and Power.
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✓ You want to deepen in your somatic 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
✓ Deeper understanding of embodied anti-racist frameworks
✓ Shifting from old habits and patterns to a 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
Covid ProtocolsAPPLICATION DEADLINES
Please submit this application by Friday, June 30th. We will notify you of your acceptance status on a rolling basis. For any questions email: embodyingracialjustice@gmail.com
Facilitators:
DARA SILVERMAN
Dara Silverman is a white, queer Jewish consultant, somatic coach and trainer with 20 years working with organizations and in movements for social, racial, economic and gender justice. Dara partners with trainers of color to lead organizational change and leadership development initiatives centering racial justice, equity and liberation. When working with white organizers and leaders on dismantling white supremacy in ourselves, organizations and movements, she partners with white trainers to lead caucuses and trainings. Previously, she was the Founding Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York City. She is certified through the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. Dara has been studying Somatics with the Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics since 2011. In 2013, Dara became a Certified Somatic Coach and has been teaching with the Strozzi Institute since 2017. She lives on Wappinger and Lenape land in Beacon, NY where she grows nine kinds of berries.
In this course, we are also grateful to be joined by a seasoned team of coaches, teachers and bodyworkers who will be supporting participants throughout the course.
