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Race-Based Trauma (RBT) and White People: Expanding Self Awareness and Deepening Your Journey as a Racial Ally

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This cohort is part of a collective learning opportunity scheduled in the Fall focusing on race-based trauma and equity.  

First choose which group you identify with and register for this training

Then ALL participants from both of the above workshops are invited to register for

If you do not identify as BIPOC, we invite you to register below, otherwise, please register for the Race-Based Trauma (RBT) and BIPOC Communities: Pathways to Coping, Healing, and Succeeding in Racists Spaces Workshop.  Participants from both groups are invited to be together for the Race-Based Trauma and Collective Liberation: Bridging the Divide through Emotional Intelligence Workshop.

 

Workshop Description: 

Deeply engage White allies on the adverse impacts of racism and internalized White superiority, to develop our emotional and cognitive capacity to constructively lead and/or support anti-racist and social justice efforts. This training presents opportunities for White people, through the lens of emotional intelligence, to come together and develop individual and collective capacities to address adverse impacts of Race Based Trauma. 

Learning Objectives: 

1. Familiarize attendees with impacts of racism on White People.  Identify traumas and negative impacts on White people; how it manifests in our societal systems and White peoples’ behavior, collectively and individually.


2. Support attendees to apply this learning in their own work lives, societal roles and interpersonal dynamics.


3. Provide tools and skills aimed to strengthen self-awareness of internalized White superiority, with the goal to help attendees interrupt these patterns and supplant with attitudes and actions that promote genuine racial equity and collaboration.

STARS credits are offered

Facilitators

Bonnie Olson

Bonnie Olson

Master’s degree in Whole Systems Design, focused on organizational change, and a BA in Psychology