Solidarity & Anti-Racism Learning Program (SARLP)
Solidarity & Anti- Racism Workshop description:
Harvest of All First Nations offers a Solidarity and Anti-Racism Learning Program designed to help participants heal internalized white supremacy and internalized oppression, looking specifically at the ways they show up as obstacles in even well-intentioned efforts at anti-racism and community work. The goal is to support participants in developing the capacities to act in solidarity with First Nations, people of color, and other marginalized groups. Over the course of 6 bi-monthly workshops, facilitators use Brave Space Agreements to allow the group to practice discussing racism and other forms of oppression and repair any conflict that arises. While the concepts presented are important, the transformation comes from learning from and with each other through perspective-taking and dialogue.
The workshops examine inner, interpersonal, institutional and ideological oppression. Participants practice recognizing and disrupting unconscious bias through mindfulness exercises, participate in experiential role plays naming microaggressions, and learn about the ongoing impacts of colonization and structural racism. Workshops enhance inner and interpersonal capacities to effect change at the system level. The workshops are informed by scholars of color and cocreated by a diverse team including First Nations representatives of these lands.
Sarlp Cohort 3
in session
Location: Growing Gardens (1630 Hawthorn Ave, Boulder, CO 80304).
Tuesday Evenings
Tuesdays 5:00 - 8:30pm
(Food is served 5:00 - 5:30 for flexible arrival time)
Dates:
Feb 6th,
Feb 27th,
Mar 12th,
Apr 2nd,
Apr 16th,
Apr 30th
Registration Closed on Feb 1st
Testimonials
Betsy Gonzalez Blohm spent a decade-long career as an educator in K-12 public schools teaching and leading for equity. She is a professor of education and dean of Naropa College and Graduate Collective at Naropa University. She leads justice, equity, and inclusion workshops for businesses, nonprofits, and schools. Betsy partners with cofacilitators from Harvest of All First Nations so that participants experience learning from facilitators that represent diverse identities and model their own learning process.
Betsy Gonzales Blohm
Solidarity & Anti-Racism Learning Program Outcomes
Co-Create Brave Space Agreements in order to engage in deep, fruitful conversations about anti-racism and collective liberation.
Understand the goal, values, and meaning of collective liberation.
Understand the history of the construction of race and reflect on personal racial identity development.
Examine internalized, interpersonal, institutional and ideological systems of oppression and how they oppress some groups and divide all of us.
Practice addressing and repairing microaggressions.
Use mindfulness to disrupt unconscious bias.
Deconstruct conditioning around white saviorism, internalized oppression, fragility, guilt, and horizontal oppression.
Practice behaviors of allyship and co-conspiring.
Analyze the characteristics and impact of dominant culture in order to act intentionally for collective liberation.
Share Your Experience With Us!
If you have any questions or concerns about the Solidarity & Anti-Racism Learning Program, feel free to reach out to us at sarlp@hafnco.org we're here to help and are eager to hear from you!