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Embodying Racial Justice Training


Are you ready to embody the antidotes to white supremacy culture? Are you longing for other anti-racist white folks to co-create a resilient, joyful, and creative anti-racist community and culture? Come out to the vibrant midwest, where we are building just that! Especially if you are Jewish, queer, trans, and/or hold another marginalized identity AND you are white, this is a place for us continue to do the learning together from the body up!  This in-person, 4-day, interactive course will build your capacity, embodiment, and understanding of yourself as a white organizer/ activist/ coach working inside of liberation movements in the US at this time. Let's move beyond our intellectual frameworks and into a different way of being together! 

This course includes:

  • Learning both individual and small group practices that serve as embodied antidotes to white supremacy ways of being.

  • Learning and going through a 7 step "Arc of Transformation" process

  • Learning to recognize our socialized patterns of behavior / nervous system's habitual responses and generate alternatives for ourselves so we can be in more choice under pressure for the sake of interrupting white supremacy patterns and being more easeful, trustworthy, and flexible white people.

  • Being in community with other anti-racist white folks who are learning together what collective liberation feels like

This program is sponsored by Core, MaTovu, Seed and Spiral and kindred currents.

Application Form: http://bit.ly/EmbodyingRJSTL

Date: Thurs. May 25th - Sunday May 28th

Times: 8:30am - 5:30pm each day // This will include breaks and optional community building time in the evenings.

Location of Training: Tyson Research Center, 6750 Tyson Valley Rd, Eureka, MO 63025 (~ 25 min from St Louis MO)

Structure of the Program:

  • Four days of in-person practice

  • Pre-work & curated reading list

  • Embodied daily and weekly practices to take home

Prerequisites: There aren't any for this training, though having some experience with body-based practices is useful.

Housing Options: We are working to offer a variety of housing options for this training. Our goal is to build community with one another and sharing space is one way to do that. Here are some options:

  • For STL folks: You are welcome to stay in your home and commute to Tyson Research Center, 6750 Tyson Valley Rd, Eureka, MO 63025

  • For Everyone (out of town folks & STL residents):

Sliding Scale Fee Structure:

Facilitator Bio:
Dara Silverman is a white, queer Jewish consultant, somatic coach and trainer with 20 years in with organizations and movements for social, racial, economic and gender justice. Dara partners with trainers of color to lead organizational change and leadership development initiatives centering racial justice, equity and liberation.  Dara partners with white trainers to lead caucuses and trainings specifically for white organizers and leaders on dismantling white supremacy in ourselves, organizations and movements. Previously, she was the founding Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York City. She is certified through the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. Dara has been studying Somatics with the Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics since 2011. Dara became a Somatic Coach in 2013 and has been in the Strozzi Institute Teacher Training since 2017and teaching with them since then. She lives on Wappinger and Lenape land in Beacon, NY where she grows nine kinds of berries.

Dara will be joined by a team of coaches, teachers and bodyworkers who will be supporting participants throughout the course.

Community Song Leader: We are lucky to be joined by a song leader for this course: Lyndsey Scott is an artist and ritual-maker devoted to priestesSing the Heartland, (literal and figurative).  She catches and weaves sacred music to empower earth-based spiritual consciousness, and gathers soul circles that use Song and sacred listening to decompose oppressive scripts that get in the way of freely living the Love we are.

COVID Protocols: https://tinyurl.com/rjsomaticscovid

Application Deadline: 

Teaser and Save the Date: This Level 1 training is the prerequisite for a Level 2 training we are bringing to St Louis in the Fall of 2023 (early Oct.). We'd love for you to consider taking both!

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Later Event: May 31
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