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5 Monday's Online
Feb. 10, 17, 24, & March 3, 10 2025
4pm-6pm PT // 6pm-8pm CT // 7pm-9pm ET
Are you longing to explore and deepen into racial justice learning in community with other white folks?
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Are you curious about how your whiteness impacts you and those around you?
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Are you seeking to explore how you can bring embodiment and mindfulness to your work for racial justice?
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Unraveling Whiteness is a course that invites you into conversation and learning through the body with other white folks living into racial justice commitments.
Participants will be invited into practice around gratitude, tapping into emotions, re-inhabiting time, and leaning into our interconnectedness to the more-than-human world, as some ways to embody anti-racism. Pre-recorded videos on themes for each session will be fodder for the experiential exercises in each live session, including a variety of paired and small group exercises.
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Live sessions will allow for juicy intellectual, emotional, somatic and spiritual engagement with how white supremacy cultural habits show up in our lives despite our best efforts.Invitations to begin unraveling the legacies of whiteness in our family lines and considering clear, concrete actions upon leaving the course will also be woven in.
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This course invites you to explore the wisdom of your body and emotions as well as the scope of your imagination as equally important learning tools for addressing systemic racism alongside understanding terminology and an analysis of power.
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The Work that Reconnects (WTR) Spiral forms the container in which the overall series is held and individual sessions are designed. WTR is a group of teachings, meditations, community exercises, and grounding practices, developed by Joanna Macy and others that are built around the belief that we are all interconnected beings in the web of life.
Want to get a taste for this work and Nicole and Kara as facilitators?
Join us for an Intro Session: Friday, December 13th from
9:30am - 10:30am PT // 11:30am - 12:30pm CT // 12:30pm - 1:30pm ET
Freely offered for everyone, registration is required.
Is this Course right for me?
This Course is open to anyone who identifies as white as well as anyone who identifies as multi-racial and/or as a white-passing person of color who is interested in exploring ways you've been socialized as white. We will be talking explicitly about the ideology of white supremacy.
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This Course focuses on United States history, context, and current reality. People from outside the US are encouraged and welcome to join us, understanding we are using a US-based frame.
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This Series is five Monday's for two hours each time. Participants must attend Session 1 in order to participate in future sessions.
Attendance of every live session is strongly recommended.
A Note about Recording:
This course is experiential in nature and therefore all sessions are live. We will NOT record any of the live sessions, as they will consist primarily of exercises that happen in pairs and groups. We will have short pre-recorded videos that accompany every session and ask participants to watch these before each session, as they set up the theme and offer teaching on each topic that will then be discussed in the live session.
Testimonials:
This course has supported me to feel empowered to see myself and my resources as change-agents within the long-term work of dismantling white supremacy. Kara and Nicole facilitated a supportive space for conversation, ritual, trust-building, ancestry work, and imaginative play which was effective in being embodied in a
variety of ways.
- ernest g.
I liked that Unraveling Whiteness was a group for white identified folks. This was helpful in me feeling more space for us to be vulnerable and messy as we stumble through this material.
- Verana B.
Kara and Nicole helped me to connect more with my body and to see and acknowledge all of the white supremacy characteristics inherent in me. They gave me excellent tools to try to counteract these and helped me to shape commitments to move forward. I highly recommend this class.
- Jamie L.
As one way to live into our commitment to economic justice and pay everyone a livable wage we are using a sliding scale. We invite you to investigate your current access to financial wealth and income by checking out this guide.
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What's Included:
10 hours of live sessions
2.5 hrs of pre-recorded videos,
reflection prompts in-between live sessions.
Compensation for facilitators and guest teachers.
If the rates above still create a barrier to accessing this course, please apply for a full or partial scholarship through the Robin Radford Cross-Class Solidarity Scholarship Fund or the Pacific Mindfulness Community Scholarship Fund.​
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Cancellations & Refunds Policy:
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Before January 27th, more than two weeks in advance - 5% of total fee, 95% of fee refunded
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From January 27th to February 3rd, 7-14 days in advance - 30% of total fee, remainder of fee refunded
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From February 3 - 9, final week in advance of the class - 75% of total fee, remainder of fee refunded
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From February 10th, once the course begins - No refunds
A Note About Zoom:
This series will be held online over Zoom. If you don't already have a Zoom account, please set up an account for free before the gathering. This can be done both on your phone and your computer. Close to the start of the first session, we will send out a Zoom link to all registered participants.
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