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

  • “I loved the workshop from start to finish. It was made in such a way that was effective in pushing thought and discussion. I want to learn more.”

    Learning Program Participant

  • "The biggest thing you will get out of this workshop besides skills of being an ally is a supportive community that helps you stumble through and pick you up wherever you need. It was so impactful to me because this isn't your typical textbook slideshow workshop. You are able to get what YOU need out of this space and the instructors are so supportive of that."

    Learning Program Participant

  • “I am a BIPOC woman and I wasn't always proud of that. I hope to be a model for others that look and feel like me so that we have a voice and we are able to make waves. I am also done holding my tongue. Equity and diversity is a lifestyle above anything and going forward I feel like I new have the tools and confidence to support others and advocate for myself in any space I'm in."

    Learning Program Participant

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!