EVENTS

I offer workshops, meetings 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.

 
 
 

  • Feb. 15, 2022 | 5-7pm PT | Virtual
    Meets the 15th of each month

    A monthly conversation about the impacts—both helpful and harmful—of us well-intentioned white folks.

    Many of us white, liberal progressives have all the best intentions in this world of inequities of which we’re part. But what do we make of all this focus on the damage whiteness causes, and how exactly do we live out our desire to fight racism?

    Each month in this conversation, we’ll choose an intriguing topic from your questions, confusions, frustrations and experiences. I’ll also bring a relevant topic or teaching.Our circle-based discussion will help reveal how the brilliant and devastating system of racial inequality we live in works. We’ll figure out what it means and where we stand with it. The tone is welcoming and honest, lighthearted and exploratory, revealing and nonjudgemental.

    This conversation is set up in a humane, relational environment in which to experience the feelings of unsafeness and discomfort that frequently accompany conversations around being white and well-intended.

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    Join this equity-focused workshop for white people about aligning our actions to their results.

    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.

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    Have you felt inspired by a book, podcast, or news item to do something about racism—yet fear, guilt or paralysis keeps you from doing anything? Now what do you do? This workshop as an opportunity to explore how we as white people respond to the call for racial justice. The focus is on what facilitators Martha Hurwitz and james boutin call the “Now What” moment.

    Using an equity-based, interactive format, the workshop addresses two keys to taking action: honing our ability to see how the system of whiteness works in and around us, and building the capacity to sit with our feelings and reactions as they arise in situations where oppression (in one form or another) is present. We do this so we can be useful as we find our way into upending systemic racism and inequities of all kinds.

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  • 2023 dates TBA

    Join us for a lightly-facilitated discussion about race for white folks. We'll gather to learn about our role in the system of racism.

    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? Bring these questions and more to this 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—and confront—the ongoing tragedy of racism. Facilitators Martha Hurwitz and james boutin have long grappled with our own whiteness in the world. We don't have all the answers, but we are passionate about moving the conversation along.

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By request, I will facilitate private circles or formal/informal convenings, by myself or with other antiracist practitioners. Below is an example of a meeting I recently facilitated for an antiracist study cohort.

 

  • Guest facilitation for a private racial equity study group

    For this group of educated, determined and privileged white women, I designed a circle focused on how to leverage the significant power the group yields. We identified what cause or causes the group can serve, in what way, for what duration and with what level of effort.

    This involved discerning among the many top priorities and compelling needs that constitute upending systemic racism or cleaning its messes. It also required an honest exploration of each woman’s resistance, doubt, or hesitancy to step into overt antiracist action.