Facilitators Healing for Justice

Date: Thursday, October 28, 202
Time: 9-10:30 am PT/ 12-1:30 pm ET
Platform: Online via Zoom

Description: Do you find yourself feeling flustered, reactive, defensive, judgmental, intimidated, confused, powerless, ineffective, or any number of feelings when facilitating a group? In other parts of your life? You are not alone. These feelings are a result of systemic and internalized oppression. When we are not able to heal from the effects of our early experiences of adultism, the institutionalized and systematic targeting of young people, we are bound to perpetuate the cycle of oppression.  Join us for this reflective and participatory session where you will learn a practice for healing from and interrupting the cycle of oppression, allowing us to be more present, access our clear thinking, and facilitate more effectively from our values of inclusion, equity, and justice.  Click here to register

Rational Aims

  • Understood how young people’s oppression (adultism) and its effects leave us vulnerable to perpetuating the cycle of oppression as facilitators and as humans
  • Learned how a regular practice of being listened to supports us to heal from the root causes and internalized effects of oppression.
  • Explored how our numbing patterns are both the result of and allow an unjust society to continue unchallenged
  • Gained an understanding of the Luna Jimenez Institute for Social Transformation’s (LJIST) core theory of social transformation and its application to ending racism.

Experiential Aim

  • Experienced the power of being listened to and healing in community

ToP Competencies Addressed: The concepts and listening practice introduced in this session can address all the competencies.  The ones that might be most visible during the workshop are:

  • Create a Participatory Environment
  • Model Positive Professional Attitudes

Presenters:

Kathleen Rice, Ph.D., CTF, LJIST Associate, brings over 30 years of experience as a facilitator, trainer, and social justice     educator. Her passion is supporting individuals and groups engaging in work that is challenging and liberating, personal and organizational, and systems-changing. Her style as a facilitator and trainer has been described as engaging, authentic, inclusive, calming, thoughtful, creative, and full of thought-provoking questions.

Victoria Tung is currently an apprentice with LJIST. Vicki has spent her career leading tech and social justice policy initiatives while working in the tech arena in Silicon Valley and in the legislative and executive branch in Washington, D.C. Vicki is passionate about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion and liberating our world from oppression through healing.

 

 

Key Details:
  • Please login five to ten minutes early to test your microphone, camera, etc.  We will start at the top of the hour with introductions of all the participants.
  • Download the latest version of Zoom in advance. If you do not have a Zoom account, please sign up for one before the workshop by visiting: https://us02web.zoom.us/ 
  • Help us create community. Be prepared to use a camera if possible. We will have an active workshop and seeing each other will help us connect.
  • We are assuming that you will be joining us for the 90 minutes of the workshop. There will be content shared at the start of the event that will set the stage for an activity during the event. 
  • To honor and support the process and space, we won’t be able to admit folks that attempt to join after 9:15 min am PT/12:15 pm ET. Therefore, we ask that you join us a few minutes before and no later than 15 mins after the hour. 
  • The workshop will not be recorded.