Bringing our Full Selves to the Work of Being  White Anti-Racists

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California Teacher Development Collaborative

A Time to Pause, Reflect, and Reintegrate

The saying, the more we learn, the less we know can certainly reflect how it feels to learn about one’s whiteness. The past year has brought many moments of learning for white people. There have been scores of articles to read, endless workshops and webinars to attend, a great deal of listening to do, and so many other opportunities for white people to grow our awareness of our whiteness and its impact in our schools, our lives, and in our society. It’s been both exhilarating and overwhelming. Now it’s time to pause; it’s time to gather together and reflect. Healer and trauma specialist <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Resmaa Menakem</a> says that we have to settle in our bodies to do antiracist work. This summer is the perfect opportunity for white identifying educators to do just that; to pause, to think deeply, and to settle our bodies. In this two day intensive, we’ll spend time unpacking whiteness in courageous, reflective, and somatic ways, exploring our identities and how they have been historically constructed and reconstructed. We’ll slow down and make space for the learning, processing, and questions we have after this year and whatever came before. We’ll explore our whiteness through a trauma-informed lens that goes beyond the intellectual space we so often limit ourselves to and instead, seek to center the mind, heart, and soul. Deep reflection and whole-body practices allow us to bring our full selves to the antiracist work we know we must do in our lives and schools. Some questions we’ll ask and explore:<ul><li>What are our origins? Where did whiteness come from and how did we become white? </li><li>How does whiteness live in us? How do we recognize it within ourselves and how do we build the capacity to understand how it shows up in ourselves, our schools, and our world? </li><li>How do we bring our full selves to our antiracist work? </li></ul>WHO SHOULD ATTENDThis workshop is an affinity space for white self-identified educators.DATESSESSION 1: July 14, 2021 | 9:00am - 2:00pmSESSION 2: July 15, 2021 | 9:00am - 2:00pmFORMAT This workshop series will be held online via Zoom and may be recorded for CATDC&#x27;s archives. By registering for this event you are consenting to be recorded and photographed by CATDC.CANCELLATION POLICYFor our Summer Institutes, refunds are available up to 14 days before the session. Please contact us directly or make the request within Eventbrite.Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop and cannot transfer registration. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

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