In collaboration with El Porvenir Services:
Beyond DEI:
confronting white affirmative action & anti-Blackness in professional spaces
Join us for this live, interactive, 5-part workshop series:
Wednesdays, 10am - 12pm PDT
October 19th - November 16th, 2022
Zoom
In response to overwhelming participant feedback and requests, we are expanding Beyond DEI to 5 sessions for 2022!
As the world faces the certainty of the long-term impacts of white affirmative-action and the global COVID-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity to forge our own reality forward; one built on the cornerstones of social justice and human rights. This evolution necessitates creating new paths forward, and brings new urgency to our shared stake in recognizing our traditional adherences to socio-political white affirmative-action in the workplace.
This regularly manifests as:
exclusion of BIPOC leadership and leadership models,
marginalization of Black clients and workers,
lateral oppression between community members,
false exceptionalism, resulting in the advancement of white mediocrity.
Join us for ***5*** weekly sessions to:
Explore the origins of whiteness and its relationship to systemic anti-Blackness and structural misogynoir.
Identify opportunities to elevate and center the wisdom of the most impacted in the systems you navigate and influence.
Identify choice-points to pivot toward nurturing more equitable organizational ecosystems.
Learn to identify and navigate the common scripts and strategies used to (un)consciously resist racial equity efforts.
We have added two additional sessions to Beyond DEI for 2022 in response to past participants’ requests for more time:
for in-depth dialogue in the large group,
in BIPOC affinity & white accountability spaces,
to develop and share your personal plans for taking MEANINGFUL ACTION to confront white affirmative action & anti-Blackness in your spaces.
The live Zoom sessions will be recorded and shared with all registered participants. If you know you will not be able to participate in one/some of the live sessions, you can still register to get access to the recordings to watch at your convenience.
Who is this for?
This training series is designed for formal and informal leaders dedicated to collective liberation.
You must already believe that Black lives and Trans lives matter.
Black, Indigenous and People of Color breakout affinity spaces will be provided.
Series Facilitators
Carlos Kareem Windham
As Principal and Founder of El Porvenir Services, LLC., Carlos is on a mission to bring communities into the future, and to center the voices of the most impacted in the reclamation of their power in the intersection of race, class, and gender. Through El Porvenir, Carlos works for the creation of just ecosystems where people maintain long-term relationships across difference, in the creation of outcomes that provide equitable opportunities for the most excluded.
Theresa Logan
Theresa is Principal and Founder of Subduction Consulting and a facilitator with 20 years’ experience in community organizing, community development, public policy engagement, organizational equity, conflict resolution, and restorative justice. She is passionately dedicated to sharing skills and tools for anti-oppressive conflict transformation and trauma healing towards collective liberation. And, true collective healing and evolution is only possible with an honest reckoning with the inherent race, gender, and power dynamics present in every interpersonal conflict, group process, organizational policy, and social structure.
“I’ve done a lot of trainings over the years and especially in the past two years, and this is one of the best I’ve attended. I’m walking away with tangible tools that I can implement in my work space.”
“ It was highly enjoyable and affirming”
FEES: Accessibility & Fair Exchange
Based in our dual values of community access and fair exchange for labor, we are offering this series on a sliding scale of $50 - $750.
If your employer is paying your registration fee and is a PWI (predominantly white institution), please ask them to pay the full amount.
If you are an individual paying for your own registration, or your employer is a BIPOC-led and/or community-based organization, please consider the following questions before deciding how much to pay:
What is the potential value of spending five weeks deeply engaged in learning to shift your perspective, strategies and efforts to confront white-affirmative action and anti-Blackness in professional spaces?
What is fair exchange for the combined 50+ years of professional expertise and lived experience being offered by the workshop facilitators?
What can you actually afford to pay?
And, ALL ARE WELCOME regardless of ability to pay - click here to apply for an additional scholarship.
Questions?
Contact Theresa@subductionconsulting.com