How To Leverage White Privilege
How to Leverage White Privilege is a six-part virtual learning experience for people that identify as white and/or white passing in leadership roles, caretakers, spiritual guides, yoga teachers, CEOS, and others to learn, connect, and reflect on how to utilize their white privilege to dismantle and transform inhumane systems and practices.
What is a conspirator of social equity?
A co-conspirator of social equity is committed, willing, and ready to recondition how they think, speak, and act regarding white privilege. Co-conspirators of social equity are people afforded privilege by the artificial construct of whiteness who use said privilege to build an expansive, healing, and transformative society. A co-conspirator of social equity acts in conjunction with people of the global majority to create a culturally mindful, healing and human-centered world.
HTLWP Objectives is to develop co-conspirators of social equity who:
Practice
- Practice consensual and non-harmful engagement with themselves and others
Advocate
- Know how and when to consent to leveraging white privilege to aid in eradicating oppressive systems
Educate
- Are equipped to have non-harmful conversations about race with people afforded white privilege as well as those not
This Learning Experience is for…
PEOPLE THAT IDENTIFY AS WHITE AND/OR WHITE PRESENTING THAT RECOGNIZE THEY ARE AFFORDED WHITE PRIVILEGE
- People in positions of leadership within businesses, religious & spiritual organizations, and collectives
- People willing to examine how whiteness affects every facet of their life
- People willing to connect, learn, and reflect, deeply with themselves and others
- People who are on a self-awareness journey regarding race and would like to connect with like-minded beings
- People willing to use their privilege to help end racism and its impacts, to ensure that sustainable culturally mindful, healing, and human-centered experiences and resources are available and accessible to everyone
Enjoy a space cultivated to aid you on your journey of becoming a co-conspirator of social equity.
The simple practice of consent and non-harmful engagements can free you from the paralyzing grip of self-judgment, shame, and inadequacy.
Hear from our participants
In our experience, you will learn to:
- Notice how your body responds when discussing race
- Regulate your nervous system utilizing movement to build resilience
- Engage in consensual non-harmful relationship with yourself and others
- Recognize and reflect on how whiteness manifests itself in our daily lives
- Discuss race and white privilege without fear, guilt, and/or shame
- Deepen your knowledge on the physical manifestations of whiteness
- Develop the ability to hold space to discuss race-based trauma
- Guide and be in spaces with people of the global majority without causing harm based on artificial constructs such as race
- Deepen your personal and communal relationships
Session 1
Consensual Relationships
- Consent: What it is and how does one consent?
- How does consent relate to white privilege?
- Consensual intra- and inter-personal engagement
Session 2
Non-harmful Engagement
- Harm vs. Discomfort
- Recognizing harm caused by and within societal systems
- How to engage non-harmfully around topics that cause discomfort
Session 3
Artificial Constructs
- What are artificial constructs?
- What constructs have we subscribed to (with or without consent)?
- Whiteness as an artificial construct and how to recognize it in systems
Session 4
Consent & Artificial Constructs
- How do you engage with artificial constructs consensually and in a non harmful manner?
- What does it look like to subscribe to artificial constructs to benefit people that self identify as women of the African Diaspora and people of the global majority?
- How do you consent to artificial constructs without harming yourself or others?
Session 5
Consensually Utilizing Your Artificial Construct
- Utilizing white privilege as a tool towards equity and liberation for those without systematic privilege caused by race
- Leaning into white privilege in relationship with those not afforded white privilege
Session 6
Sharing the News
- Learn non-harmful ways to discuss the impacts of white privilege and racism
- Talking to other people with white privilege about their white privilege takes effort, practice, reflection and practice
Here’s How we Flow:
You will flow through a mindfully-curated experience of teachings created to foster deep relationships with self and others.
During every experience, you’ll be guided through transformational prompts and invited to practice the tools provided in your personal and professional life.
As you practice key concepts and integrate transformational prompts into your life you will discover new understanding to bring to your life.
ADMISSIONS & PREREQUISITES
Participants should have a basic and general comprehension of the role of race and its impacts on how people are treated.
These sessions can be tailored to fit your business, group, and/or organization.
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