White Awake: Online workshop

“Roots Deeper than Whiteness” - Countering White Fragility with Deep Resilience

An Online Workshop Series, presented by White Awake

“One of the problems that most afflicts this country is that white people don’t know who they are or where they come from.”
- James Baldwin

"Roots Deeper than Whiteness" is an online workshop series for white-identified people seeking greater emotional strength to confront racism in society and in ourselves. This means processing the fear, shame, and confusion that can arise when we address racism, so that we can remain rooted in our highest values when grappling with these realities. It also means remembering who we really are, learning our ancestors’ histories before they were classified as "white", and reflecting on the forces that created “whiteness” in the first place.
In this interactive workshop series you will…

• Build supportive relationships, share your story, and open to your own vulnerability with partners and within small groups
  

• Gain tools to remain grounded in the midst of white fragility, and to subdue white, anti-racist tendencies towards self-hatred, shame, and guilt
  

• Root yourself in a heritage of European resistance to oppression that was quelled with the creation of white supremacy
  

• Receive guidance for next steps on your journey toward inner transformation, racial accountability, and effective action for social change
  

Meet the facilitators ...

David Dean David Dean is passionate about healing the psychological impact of systemic oppression on youth most vulnerable to its violence, and within people made dominant by it. In doing so, he believes we can find the strength and understanding we need to contribute to the creation of a just society. He has sought to do this as coordinator of a summer youth activism program called The Unity Hoops Project, as an advocate for restorative discipline in schools, as a facilitator supporting men to overcome hyper-masculine social expectations, and as a writer and curriculum designer for White Awake. David’s ancestors come from the British Isles but he was raised in Maryland on land taken from the Piscataway people. He was shaped most by his parents’ love and his upbringing in Quaker communities. He loves to write, sing, and facilitate others’ discovery of their own inherent goodness and power to create social change. Eleanor Hancock Eleanor Hancock is the director of White Awake: a project that brings mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practice to white affinity work focused on racism, white supremacy, and collective liberation. If you read the White Awake newsletter, you are already familiar with Eleanor's vision and "voice!" Eleanor’s belief is that knowledge and spiritual clarity offer white people the tools we need to act not only as allies of people of color and indigenous peoples, but to make this struggle our own. Eleanor’s leadership within White Awake grows out of years of experience as an activist, academic, artist, educator, and mother of a biracial child. She has trained directly with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects, and integrates this Buddhist-based, deep ecology practice into her facilitation of integrative, race-based group work.

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*No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Questions, more information, request scholarship: info@whiteawake.org