Level 1 Anti-Racism Workshop (6 total hours)

This 6-hour workshop (3 two-hour sessions) is designed to teach participants the crucial skills that form a solid foundation for becoming an anti-racist member of society. We begin with grounding practices that cultivate non-reactive, non-judgemental, curious awareness of our experience. We then utilize these compassion-based contemplative practices to teach participants how to identify racism both structurally and in their social lives. Collectively, these two aspects hone participants' capacity to meaningfully engage difficult realities about racism, define and identify structural racism, and begin their own deeper self-driven exploration of race and racism. This workshop is required for participants to enroll in our level 2 seminar.

Level 2 Anti-racism Seminar (14 total hours) 

The 14-hour seminar (7 two-hour sessions) builds on the foundation concepts taught in the anti-racism workshop. Having now gained facility with how racism is both an intellectual and embodied phenomenon, participants are prepared to examine structural racism on an interpersonal and institutional level. This seminar equips participants with the necessary skills/tools to: 1) be able to describe, define, and attend to internalized, interpersonal, and structural racism,  2) compassionately attend to the inner stirrings of their conscience (i.e. culturally racist ideologies) that socialize people to explain away racism by other means (i.e. criminality, genetic inferiority, stereotypes, etc.) and succumb to racial exceptionalism, and 3) discern what anti-racist compassionate actions they can engage in, both immediate and long term.

Consulting

Educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and businesses seeking authentically to respond to a desire for social justice may find themselves at a loss for how to do this effectively. Our consultation services are targeted to meet this need. We recognize the difficulty in translating an authentic desire for racial justice into an effective business structure. Our goal is to help organizations name that desire and translate that desire into effective and sustainable organizational action.