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I offer workshops, meetings, caucuses and circles infused with the stuff of equity: shared voices, deep listening, non-hierarchical set-ups that convey anti-oppression sensibilities in their very structure.
I facilitate alone or with fabulous colleagues.
My goal: increase our capacity to talk about equity issues, racialized moments and opportunities to counter oppression. I’m available to facilitate for your group, community or workplace: let’s talk about it.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized World
A monthly conversation about the nuances and complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity and oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
Social Justice Stewardship
Social Justice Stewardship is designed for those working for social justice in every sector (education, law, healthcare, food access, climate justice, etc.) who are tired of watching infighting, poor communication, and burnout diminish the power of social justice efforts. From the training you'll gain a framework for understanding oppression that humanizes every person on earth, acknowledges the complex connections between systems and trauma, and points us toward effective action.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
Feeling Into Confusion & Hope: A Conversation About Palestine & Israel
A facilitated community conversation exploring our questions, internal conflicts, and curiosities in this tender moment.
Feeling Into Confusion & Hope: A Conversation About Palestine & Israel
A facilitated community conversation exploring our questions, internal conflicts, and curiosities in this tender moment.
Playing for Liberation: Tools That Prepare & Sustain Us
Many of us experience an ineluctable joy in the work of liberation. We can tap into this joy and sustain ourselves through our efforts by showing up in a regulated state. Whether in a meeting, at a protest, or when facilitating, play helps us regulate. We loosen up, open new channels of perception, settle into our bodies, and access spontaneity and hidden stores of creativity. Join Leticia and Martha as we share some of our favorite interactive activities and action methods that settle the nervous system and prepare us for our liberatory pursuits.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
Feeling Into Confusion & Hope: A Conversation About Palestine & Israel
A facilitated community conversation exploring our questions, internal conflicts, and curiosities in this tender moment.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging White Responsibility in a Racialized world
A monthly conversation about the nuances & complexities we face as white-identified people concerned with our role in equity & oppression. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about the experience of being white and well-intentioned. Relevant whether you're uneasy, enraged, confused or mobilized by what it means to be a person racialized as white. Bring your questions and your willingness to learn, grow, change, and act.
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Let’s help make our communities more equitable for everyone!
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Let’s help make our communities more equitable for everyone!
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Let’s help make our communities more equitable for everyone!
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Let’s help make our communities more equitable for everyone!
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Bring your questions, confusions, and reflections about being white in a culture that benefits us at others’ expense.
We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
A monthly conversation about how we as white folks can turn our good intentions into keen understanding and concrete actions. Bring your questions, confusions, and reflections about being white in a culture that benefits us at others’ expense.
NOT GETTING IT RIGHT: How racism creates a gap between white intention & impact
Join other white folks in an equity-focused workshop about aligning our actions and their results.
Past Events
Many of us white folks have read Kendi, gone to a diversity training, hosted a phone bank, or donated to Real Rent Duwamish. We see that systemic racism causes great harm and are committed to doing something about it.
We step up...and then find ourselves stuck, scared, paralyzed, full of shame, anger or guilt. We want to take action, but we don't want to cause more harm. Now what do we do?
This interactive circle workshop focuses on this specific experience—what we call the Now What moment. Through an equity-based process, we'll explore the nature of our struggles in order to take effective action. We'll dig deeper into the subtle ways whiteness influences these Now What moments. We'll gain clarity about ways to increase our personal capacity to bear the pain, grief and humiliation of racial equity work, hone our understanding of how systemic racism functions and acknowledge the ways white dominant culture is at work in and through us. We do this so we can be useful as we find our way into upending systemic racism.
Many of us have been struck in recent years by what we’ve learned about racism in our culture and ourselves. Some of us have been pondering this for years. And most of us want to make things better. With the best of intentions, we take some action: strike up a conversation, do a service project, donate to a cause.
But the conversation starter offends. The service project doesn’t really help those most in need. And the tax break from the donation feels like it’s helping the wrong party.
Can we ever get it right?
Yes—if we understand the bind we’re caught in and reorient our goals.
Through an equity-based, circle-influenced, interactive conversation, we’ll consider our experience of not getting it right and discuss what it would take for our intentions and impacts to come into closer alignment.
Do you benefit from white privilege? Are you grappling with how to find the courage to take action against racism as a white person? Would you like to grow your network of white friends who are struggling with these questions? If your answer is yes, we'd like to invite you to an open discussion about what it means to be white and live with integrity.
It's become more and more clear that white people need space with each other to process the ongoing tragedy of racism in order to be better. At the same time, we recognize that white people meeting among themselves isn't nearly enough to advance racial justice. We also need to increase our accountability to BIPOC-led movements. Our goal is to support this desperately needed conversation and increase our connectivity as white folks striving toward antiracism, all with the long-term goal of ending racism one day.
