embodied reparations

August 27 - October 1, 2023 online

With Kusum Crimmel, Erin Caitlin Sweeney & Sage Hayes

Explore, embody, and evolve our understanding, practices, and current paradigm toward repair, reparation, healing, and reconfiguration of our responsibility as white folx in cultural genocide, slavery, and the ongoing abuses of white supremacy.   


This is a six-part pilot series for white-bodied people to come together with intention and care to explore the possibilities of embodied reparations. Co-created by 3 seasoned facilitators and space holders, we will explore specific steps toward reparations and an embodied and reparative stance anchored in truth-seeing, amends, community, and mutual liberation.  


We will use genealogical research, storytelling, sharing, family constellations, somatic practices, and collective witnessing as tools to support the energetic, emotional, cognitive, and embodied metabolizing of collective racialized trauma. In community, we will work toward earnest reparation, authentic solidarity, and relinquishment of supremacy in all its forms.

WEEK ONE

Where We Really Come From

WEEK TWO 

What Happened and What Was Lost?

WEEK THREE

Internalized Beliefs & Survival Strategies

WEEK FOUR

Complicity & Participation

WEEK FIVE

What's Possible?

WEEK SIX

Closing & Commitments