Solidarity & Anti-Racism Learning Program (SARLP)
Solidarity & Anti- Racism Workshop description:
Harvest of All First Nations offers a Solidarity and Anti-Racism Learning Program designed to help participants heal internalized white supremacy and internalized oppression, looking specifically at the ways they show up as obstacles in even well-intentioned efforts at anti-racism and community work. The goal is to support participants in developing the capacities to act in solidarity with First Nations, people of color, and other marginalized groups. Over the course of 6 bi-monthly workshops, facilitators use Brave Space Agreements to allow the group to practice discussing racism and other forms of oppression and repair any conflict that arises. While the concepts presented are important, the transformation comes from learning from and with each other through perspective-taking and dialogue.
The workshops examine inner, interpersonal, institutional and ideological oppression. Participants practice recognizing and disrupting unconscious bias through mindfulness exercises, participate in experiential role plays naming microaggressions, and learn about the ongoing impacts of colonization and structural racism. Workshops enhance inner and interpersonal capacities to effect change at the system level. The workshops are informed by scholars of color and cocreated by a diverse team including First Nations representatives of these lands.
1. Practicing Behaviors for Allyship and Solidarity
In this learning experience, we begin by deepening relationships and exploring brave space agreements to create the conditions that are conducive to practicing allyship. Solidarity is possible when we are in authentic relationships and willing to be vulnerable and courageous when allyship opportunities present themselves.
Through experiential exercises and discussions, participants will learn about social conditioning that can get in the way of showing up as an ally. With this greater awareness, we will explore behaviors of anti-racism and allyship and practice showing up in these ways
Allyship is an active practice that we regularly have the opportunity to choose to engage with. This learning experience invites participants to deepen their awareness, bravery, and capacity for showing up as an ally with compassion for themselves and others.
2. Responding to Microaggressions to Create Inclusive Spaces
Microaggressions are unintentional and often subtle comments or behaviors that significantly damage relationships, coalitions, and inclusive spaces.
Learning how to respond to and repair microaggressions is foundational to building spaces of belonging. This experiential workshop provides frameworks for creating brave spaces with compassionate listening and communication skills so that people can respond to microaggressions with a focus on repair.
Program Cost
Cost for Individuals
Joining a Community Cohort:
$1,000/participant to attend a 6-workshop learning program
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General Price:
The full 5-workshop learning program costs $15,000.
Optional 6th workshop class for an additional $3,000
Standalone workshops described bellow : $3,500.
For small organizations (fewer than 25 people) that do not have a budget for the cost of the organization-specific workshop series, contact sarlp@hafnco.org . There are potential discounts for small organizations willing to allow outside participants to fill the cohort to 25 people.
Testimonials
Betsy Gonzalez has spent her life as an educator in K-12 public schools teaching and leading for equity. She now trains future teachers as the Director of Friends School's Teacher Preparation Program. She has been a professor and academic dean at the university level. She uses her skill in teaching to make it possible for workshop participants to turn knowledge into practice and integrates mindfulness practices to sustain the inner work necessary to contribute to systemic change. She loves to travel, meditate, and explore ancestral medicine modalities.
Betsy Gonzalez
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Learning Goals:
Identify common language and vocabulary to talk about race, identity, bias, & equity.
Practice moving through guilt or internalized oppression toward compassion and solidarity.
Participate in mindfulness exercises to recognize and disrupt unconscious bias.
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Learning Goals:
Co-Create Brave Space Agreements in order to engage in deep, fruitful conversations about anti-racism and collective liberation.
Cultivate the capacity for teams/organizations to repair, learn and connect through conflict.
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Learning Goals:
Reflect on the cycle of socialization to disrupt guilt, saviorism and fragility which impede allyship.
Practice behaviors for anti-racism, allyship and solidarity.
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Learning Goals:
Understand the four types of oppression.
Practice moving through guilt or internalized oppression toward compassion and solidarity.
Participate in role plays to name and repair microaggressions.
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Learning Goals:
Analyze biased historical narratives, the cycle of socialization & counternarratives to understand the construction of race in the US.
Identify ways that dominant culture can impede solidarity, justice, and connection.
Envision new paradigms for collective liberation.
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Learning Goals:
Learning about historical systematic oppression
Understanding Community Engagement and to Ownership systems
Broad overview of systematic racial concepts such as:
Marginalization, Placation, Tokenization, Delegated Power, community Ownership
Ways that systematic change and occur and yield community engagement and leadership
Share Your Experience With Us!
If you have any questions or concerns about the Solidarity & Anti-Racism Learning Program, feel free to reach out to us at sarlp@hafnco.org we're here to help and are eager to hear from you!