~ specific for wellness, fitness, healing arts, medical, and health practitioners ~
This fall series is a 3 month journey with a group of sincere practitioners, of which we would love you to be a part. In this biweekly ant-racist training, we explore whiteness, implicit bias, and racial literacy. Healing focus is on building your internal toolkit: racial awareness, grounding, inquiry, and authentic action. A brilliant, brave, and personal journey to uncover yourself as an authentic, non-performative, anti-racist practitioner ~ and we don’t stop there ~ this transformative work is purposeful and done in order to actively reduce harm and ensure more equitable healing spaces, health access and therapies for the thriving of all people.
:workshop details:
This series entails a deeper investigation into our own, often unconsciously held, racial/cultural biases. This is not only essential for reducing the harm so often incurred by minoritized communities, but also serves to position practitioners responsibly within their traditions – which often have non-European/American origins. Too often there is great disconnect between the intention to “help” or “be of service”, and the impact on those we aim to serve. By returning to both a deeper and more contextual relationship to the central tenets within these traditions, we can uncover that a just and radically inclusive framework is more often than not already present.
These workshops are designed specifically for you, as a wellness provider, to help you move from overwhelm and doubt, to courage, clarity and action.
WHEN: Virtual meetings every other Thursday evening starting in late September
DATES: 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 11/5, 11/19, 12/3
TIME: 6pm to 8pm PST
COST: $325 *
5% of proceeds go directly to Black Lives Matter Seattle/King County
*If you are experiencing financial or systemic barriers to tuition, please fill out the application then contact us directly to discuss payment plan or partial scholarship.
Reach out! Lauren Kite or Reya Born
:meet your facilitators & co-collaborators:
Lauren Kite – As a teacher and facilitator of more than 10+ years, Lauren brings an experienced, keen, and discerning lens to the on-going conversation around environmental and social justice. Lauren has a passion for supporting individuals and organizations to identify and implement sustainable and integrated action, while fostering a radically respectful internal culture of learning, growth, and accountability, for deeper and more lasting impact.
Reya Born - works with individuals and groups to uproot whiteness, increase racial literacy and allow the emergence of authentic action. Her specialty lies in guiding folks to use the tools of their trade to heal themselves of whiteness training and implicit bias ~ the unseen disharmonies that unconsciously perpetuate harm in one’s life. Her focus is especially on progressive, liberal wellness professionals with spiritual or soulful tendencies
