Description
Systemic racism robs everyone’s life energy and takes away everyone’s well-being. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have centuries of exhaustion from layer upon layer of the horror that systemic racism and white supremacy have encoded in our human bodies. White folks have to find a way forward through the layers of responsibility, denial, shame, and unforgiveability of what has happened. BIPOC folks face deep challenges as they confront their own internalized oppression that can lead them to enact the same harm on others that they themselves have experienced. White people begin to grieve the loss of identity, culture, and traditional wisdom that was stripped away in order to create the caste system upon which white supremacy theory is built. How can self-compassion help all of us? How can it help us learn, how can it help us integrate, how can it help exhaustion, and how can it support our antiracist activism?
Participants will integrate:
- Developing a grounded understanding of personal and systemic responsibility
- The role of self-compassion in connecting us with ourselves and with others in a world rife with conflict and chaos.
- Antiracist principles
- Neuroscience concepts connected with implicit biases
- Engagement of brain structures involved in self-compassion
- Skills and coaching in response to microaggressions
Where do we meet?
The course will meet via online video conference (zoom). This program will be recorded for participants in various zones.
When?
This course will meet for 8 sessions on Mondays from 10:30am – 12:00pm Pacific time, June 7- July 26, 2021 (To convert to your time, please click here)
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 5
July 12
July 19
July 26
Who is this event for?
- For nonviolent communication beginners and long-time practitioners, all are welcome
- Folks wanting to move toward antiracist consciousness
- People wanting to transform the impacts of systemic racism both inside and out
- For those longing for side-by-side practice with each other in community.
Bonus
8 bonus 1-hour group coaching calls with Sarah Peyton to explore the interplay of unconscious contracts and self-compassion in antiracism
These calls will take place Tuesday evenings from 5:30-6:30pm PT June 8, June 15, June 22, June 29, July 6, July 13, July 20, and July 27
(To convert to your time, please click here)
More on Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton
Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton are excited to team up for this collaboration. Sarah Peyton brings the lens of the convergence of neuroscience, personal transformation, and systemic trauma and Roxy Manning brings a commitment to addressing systemic inequities with fierceness and care in order to create change without replicating trauma and injustice.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable and transferable.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by others speaking about difficult events, it would be better not to register for this program.
