2025 Dates Coming Soon!

White Women Affinity Space for honest reflection and deeper identity development: Continue on your anti racist journey with a community of White Women leaders who want to get better in their will, skill and application of leaning in to the practice and mess that is trying to unlearn Whiteness, all while holding the nuance of power and systems that exist around us and in our roles.

We are on a mission to cultivate a community of White antiracist folks

Are you…

• A school administrators, teachers and teacher leaders leading the way in being honest about race and its impact in your building?

• A non-profit leader looking for fellow leaders navigating complexities of boards, staff, and donors?

• A program manager committed to racial equity and building a more inclusive programming while navigating leadership and staff teams

• A coach, consultant, or organizational leader looking to expand your own racial identity development and impact of Whiteness in your work and how you use your power to work for collective liberation?

• A parent or neighbor that sees the importance for your family and community to continue to do your own work in order to benefit those around you?

• A C-Suite or HR Leader who has been assigned DEI and wants more support in what that means and your role to make it happen?

• Feeling alone in this work and seeking community?

What we prioritize…

This is “101 ½”  and an entry point to engage in the White antiracist community we’re cultivating .  It’s a new page in your racial identity development journey to interrogate perfectionism, fear of doing it wrong, and how you’ve been told there is a right way to professionalism and leadership. It’s an invitation for nuance, complexity, power sharing, collaboration and vulnerability.

For 11 weeks, we spend time building glue for connection, relationship and long term community, accountability, practice, and embodiment.This is a small group space to process together through 4 themes of SELF, COLLECTIVE, SOMATICS, and SUSTAIN to deepen, reassess, and expand where you are now and what this means for your leadership. It’s where navigating each other is as much of the lesson as is asking uncomfortable questions and making mistakes.

What does anti racist leadership look like to you? Now, at this moment? In this role and context you find yourself in?

• Wherever you are, there will always be a both/and that exists in regards to your process and understanding of racial dynamics.  

• To be able to navigate the ebb and flow.  

• The success and burn out.  

• The mistakes and celebrations.  

• The slow down to go fast.  

• The strategic moves and in-the-moment decisions. 

• The greater collective and our personal, local and immediate.  

• The personal before professional.  

• We’re here for developing our nervous system before being able to show up in our full authentic capacity as a leader.

Info Sessions:

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Cultivating White Antiracist Community

Included:

• 6 Content Sessions

• 2:1 Coaching with Haley and Maren

• Q&A access throughout

• Small Group/Triad support

• 1:1 Listening sessions

• Lifetime access to monthly Office Hours (1st Monday of the month) + Cohort Resources

Logistics: What’s the schedule like? Do we meet every Tuesday?

Over 11 weeks, we meet live as a whole group 6 times on the 6 titled sessions below (kickoff, self, etc.). We always send pre-work and follow up with extension resources, the session outline including content and reflection questions. You have lifelong access to these resources beyond the cohort.

Based on feedback from the past cohorts, we hold the time on the additional Tuesdays for all parts of the program so the time is dedicated for folks. 

• Triads are welcome to use this time or set a separate time that works well for you all. 

• Maren and Haley offer the coaching both during the Tuesday AND additional times that accommodate everyone's schedules. 

• Monthly Office Hours are available as an additional resource and are entirely optional. This invitation to Doing the Work monthly office hours extends to lifelong access beyond the cohort. 

A new page in your racial identity development journey of unlearning Whiteness

This is NOT a spot for quick fixes, performative action, or working in isolation.  For folks who believe they have “arrived.” You will get annoyed if you are looking for it to quickly become a community of practice or place for a lot of discussion like a book club. You will get frustrated if you are looking for a to do list or crystal clear answers.

This IS a spot for:

• slowing down and continued internal racial identity development

• shifting HOW you show up and use your power in your leadership context to support a more liberated future

• taking inventory on where you have been, where you are now, and how you want to go forward 

• doing this alongside and in relationship with others in this cohort and your community

• you know the value in accepting non closuring and creating space for breath into ideas and next actions

• getting in your reps for continued practice and curiosity within group dynamics - why did I do that? Where did that come from?

• countering white supremacy traits and predictable patterns that emerge within groups of white folks - quick to action, afraid to make mistakes, and being real nice. 

• developing resilience around discomfort re: race, politics, etc

This is FOR YOU if…You’re a leader who...

• is leading antiracism work in your organization and is looking for your own place to practice, process, and metabolize

• witnesses problematic statements and actions in your workplace or family and wants to take action

• wants to increase your own and your team’s will and skill to do less harm

• is looking to build relationships with allies

• values growth mindset and knows the necessity to come back again and again - what's here for me this time? What is there for me to learn?
  
  
  
  

Programs + Goals: Our intention is to grow a group that can hold the weight of unlearning, leading and nuance together and stay sustained by leaning on community and developing resiliency.  But more importantly, being able to name when our capacity is low and burn out is building. We have homework, time built in with your Triads and opportunity for time with coaching with Maren and Haley. 

• Individual Racial Identity Development -- "I want some more learning..."

• Community with other White folks on their antiracism journey -- "I want to build relationships with more allies in an affinity space..."

• Systems-level structures and leadership implementation -- "I want to take action..."

• Somatics and Embodied Antiracism -- "I want to practice, process, and metabolize..."

• Small group for continued discussion between cohort sessions -- "I want to keep digging deeper..."

• Personal investigation and reflection -- "I want to keep increasing consciousness and doing less harm..."

• Coaching (individual and/or group) -- "I want more continued support and sustainability..."

What are the sessions like?

Sessions as a whole group always begin with a  check in and grounding and conclude with commitments and check out.  Each session’s focus is explored through a combination of individual, small group and large group reflection and dialogue with frameworks that support the session’s theme.  Each session includes reflection of Self and of the System.  How is it personal before it is professional?  And then what do I do with this information in my role, context and unique sphere of influence?

This is experiential and your presence and engagement is part of what creates the group experience of reviewing what we already know, finding new cobwebs to clear and unlearn, and navigating our own and other White bodies on their own journey. 

We have 6 content sessions with Triads and Coaching in between:

KICKOFF: "The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward." - Ijeoma Oluo

SELF: “If we don't do our work, we become work for other people.” - Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

COLLECTIVE: “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” - Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson

SOMATICS: “Healing from white-body supremacy begins with the body — your body. ​But it does not end there. In order to heal the collective body that is America, we also need social activism that is body centered. We cannot individualize our way out of white-body supremacy. Nor can we merely strategize our way out. We need collective action — action that heals.” — Resmaa Menakem 

SUSTAIN: “Small is All.” - Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy

ADJOURN: Racial Equity and Liberation - movetoendviolence.org

• Disconnect to Reconnect to source

• Dissociate to Reclaim your body

• Distance to re-engage your emotions

• Distort to restore your story

In between sessions:

Office Hours: This is included in our membership and ongoing for anyone who has participated in our programs. Every 1st Monday of the month.

Triad: You will be put together with 2 other folks to create a triad. You will meet with this group of folks over the course of our time together.

Scratch: Is another way to process and practice reaching out for support, listening and metabolizing.

We offer different rates depending on your individual and organizational access to money and wealth. Our tiers are an effort to distribute resources equitably between organizations and community members.

Individuals: Are you an individual community member paying for your own participation? These rates are for you if you are paying for the training without financial support from an organization.

Organizations: Or are you able to ask for organizational support through profession development or other funds beyond your personal income.

Which do you anticipate you could commit to for this cohort?

Challenge the existing norms and reshape the landscape of leadership + education

Step One: White Women Doing the Work, Anti Racist Teacher

Step Two: Fractals: Communities of Practice, Facilitation Training

Ongoing: Presence, 1:1 Coaching, Office Hours, Community Q&A

Hire Us: Personalized Cohort or Community of Practice with your Colleagues/Workplace

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Join us in this transformative journey toward a more equitable and just future.

Together, we can make a difference.