Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Facilitator Training LEVEL I

For the last decade, Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice and mindfulness. He recently received his doctorate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angel has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explores healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, he began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development, conversations about inequality and healing to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former Trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto, Japan. Angel continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others.He is the CEO and Principal Consultant at Acosta Consulting, where hedesigns and facilitate healing-centered and contemplative-based learning experiences for organizations interested in exploring issues of difference, inequality, racial equity, and well being.

Dr. Angel Acosta

Learn to deepen your skillset with facilitating conversations about structural inequality through a contemplative lens.

*** Some Full Scholarships Available ***Our intention is to make this accessible to anyone who want to join us. Sliding scale registration fee for each registration fee is $50- $250 depending on your needs. We understand the current moment is impacting us all financially.This training supports participants with developing the skills and presence to facilitate the Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Experience. Inspired by the 400 Years of Inequality project and its powerful timeline, this training will explore research and practices at the intersection of mindfulness, intergenerational trauma &amp; healing, and contemplative education. Participants will learn how to use the 400 Years of Inequality timeline as a contemplative tool for deepening conversations about structural inequality, historical literacy, community resiliency and social justice. This training will provide participants with the necessary knowledge they need to guide their communities through mindful dialogue on our past for the purpose of generating healing and restoration. This training harnesses the power of the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to U.S. in 1619. Participants will learn how facilitate a contemplative learning experience that holds the complexity of diverse perspectives and walks community members through history in order to process our collective past for our present healing. By combining contemplative practices with the exploration of the timeline, participants will learn how to re-imagine how we can both transcend implicit bias and develop a more compassionate society.Participants will leave with a thorough understanding of foundational research, core practices, access to online community, physical timeline printing instructions, digital access to timeline, and tools for facilitating the timeline virtually. Parents, teachers, consultants and practitioners from all fields are welcomed. No prior experience with meditation or contemplative practices is required. Part of the training will focus on helping participants with developing and deepening their mindfulness practices. This training will leave you inspired and empowered to continue the hard work transforming our society for the better.Level II, Level III, Level IV Trainings will be made available to deepen understanding. A certificate of complication is provided at the end of Level IV. ****Training Zoom Details will be sent a day before****Short Video on Impact of Timeline Facilitation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6I35FvMTFQ8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6I35FvMTFQ8&feature=youtu.be</a>Video of Webinar on Contemplating 400 Years Inequality<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6I35FvMTFQ8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_C88dLr4s</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6I35FvMTFQ8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Limited Full Training Fee Scholarship In light of the generosity of many community members, a number of scholarships are available for this training. Please use the link below so submit your application. Once you submit your application through this specific link, we will reach out as soon as possible. Scholarship link here:<a href="https://forms.gle/kzExbydCN9t5UW97A" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> </a><a href="https://www.drangelacosta.com/8-23-2020-level-i-training-scholarship-form" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.drangelacosta.com/8-23-2020-level-i-training-scholarship-form</a><a href="https://forms.gle/g4MpUSAhAgQzc9ws6" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Testimonials from Trusted Colleagues "Angel Acosta is an inspiring guide through the timeline of our lives since the first slave ship arrived on North American shores that has shaped the history of the United States over the last four hundred years. Each of us can benefit as individuals and organizations in deeply experiencing this journey of our modern world to bring more wisdom, understanding and compassion to our collective lives.”Daniel SiegelClinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute“I walked late into the session... a hotel ballroom filled with people in silence...slowly pacing in and around the laminated words and images on the floor. I could tell from the intensity on their faces, there was a message in those laminated sheets that dug deep into each person's experience. As I got close enough to see what was holding everyone's attention so closely, I was surprised to see the 400 year history of my ancestor's painful yet resilient journey laid out on a graphic timeline. I was fascinated! I couldn't skip over ANYTHING! I wanted to read every word. To know those pieces of American history that speaks to the truth of our racist past and present. Angel's facilitation of the process was exquisite, as he was able to make the experience as digestible as possible for everyone.”Konda MasonFilmmaker, activist, social entrepreneur, and Strategic Director of Jubilee Partners“Angel Acosta’s work on 400 years of slavery and institutional racism focuses on what matters most: moving marginality to the center of collective attention. That shift in attention might well be the only way to truly address the increasing polarization in society today. He is a master facilitator that can hold these deep structural tensions in ways that allow for healing and possibility.”Otto ScharmerSenior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder of the Social Presencing Institute“Angel Acosta has developed an embodied, emotionally powerful, and highly meditative first-person experience in which we literally walk at our own pace past large canvases on the floor depicting a time- line of major events in US history, most of which we hardly ever learn anything about in school or reflect upon as adults—events that mandated inequality, and legalized and institutionalized horrific injustices of all kinds. These legacies have huge and ongoing repercussions for all of us to this present day. Angel’s guidance in this reflective process gently invites us to learn and to heal, individually and collectively. Hopefully, it will also inspire us to act, to take stands both little and big, in the service of true equality and justice.”Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center

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