WORKSHOPS
I offer workshops, retreats, 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. Each is an opportunity to deepen self-awareness, harness motivation to action, and practice the skills required to create a world where everyone matters.
I facilitate alone or with fabulous colleagues and offer a selection of topics and approaches that I can customize for your group, community or workplace: let’s talk about it.
Workshop Examples
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Personal reflection using a worksheet with prompts such as “Where I’m from, we don’t talk about..” and “Where I’m from, we hold these values…”, followed by small group sharing, and a final circle round of takeaways.
Learning objectives: Deepen skills of listening to understand through participating in circle; Cultivate recognition of cultural & generational positionality; Cultivate the habit of humanizing.
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A tender exploration of the 4 main barriers to effective teams, smooth relationships, & conflict resolution. Journaling followed by anonymous sharing of specific moments to identify patterns, cultivate compassion, & situate certain feelings as products of social conditioning.
Learning Objectives: Practice de-personalizing (some) feelings by understanding their role in maintaining power structures; deepen empathy & compassion for reactivity in self & others;
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Lightning round of pair shares exploring several questions about mattering, such as “How do you convey to someone that they matter to you?” and “Why might people in your workplace/ school/community feel they don’t matter?”. Circle round of reflections. Personal or small group time with the One Word Action Plan.
Learning Objectives: Build capacity for humanizing relationships & working environments; prime participants to hold conversations with colleagues, friends, etc; Move into concrete actions.
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Using an Appreciative Inquiry process, focus on aspects of a team, workplace, or group culture that elicit vitality & creativity. Individuals reflect on conditions making these moments possible using a worksheet, followed by small & whole group sharing of how conditions can be replicated.
Learning Objectives: Elevate confidence in of skills already at hand; Build recognition of somatic signals; Deepen leveraging of skills & interest among team members.
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Sharing of specific racialized situations participants have found themselves in that include a Now What? moment. Exploration of somatic cues, reactive patterns, and the way white dominant culture is present. Close with the 7 A’s of Racial Apology tool.
Learning Objectives: Build capacity to experience discomfort in racialized moments without shutting down; Become familiar with specific physical, emotional, spiritual, etc. cues about reactivity and capacity.
The Tender Work: An Ongoing Affinity Circle for People Identifying as White
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.
The Tender Work: An Ongoing Affinity Circle for People Identifying as White
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.
The Tender Work: An Ongoing Affinity Circle for People Identifying as White
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.
The Tender Work: Acknowledging 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.
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.
VIRTUAL - 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.
In Person - The Tender Work: Acknowledging Responsibility in a Racialized World
First ever in-person version of this 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.
Virtual - The Tender Work: Acknowledging Responsibility in a Racialized World
Monthly, online workshop 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A morning of playful tending designed to sustain us as we move through the current moment together.
There is a vitalizing joy many of us experience in the work of liberation. We can tap into this and sustain ourselves through our efforts by showing up available to what emerges—in a meeting, at a protest, in a conversation, while facilitating. In all these moments, play helps us warm up. We loosen, open new channels of perception, root into our bodies, access spontaneity and hidden stores of creativity.
In this workshop, Leticia and Martha share some of our favorite interactive activities and action methods that ground and prepare us for our pursuits, and for day-to-day life. Techniques may include sociometric explorations, psychodramatic enactment, equity-infused games, or sensory-based engagements. We'll move from one to another, with just enough (but not too much) context-setting and description.
Anyone who is interested in deep, vibrant engagement in the work of liberation will find benefit in this workshop. All are welcome. Educators, facilitators, movement leaders, concerned citizens: all of us choosing to respond deserve aliveness in our work.
