Join Michelle C. Johnson, Stephanie Ghoston Paul, Tristan Katz, May Nicholson, and Rebby Kern for this 5-day advanced facilitation training. Holding space, facilitating, and engaging in group processes while centering justice isn’t an easy task. Many questions can emerge as one holds space in an emergent, thoughtful, and authentic way. We want to share space and wisdom with you about how to facilitate in an artful and skillful manner. This facilitation training is not a 101-level program. Prior experience facilitating conversations and working across lines of difference is required, i.e. anti-racism work, trans inclusivity work, DEI, etc. Yoga teachers dedicated to anti-oppression work are also welcome to apply.

Throughout our time together, we will build culture, develop shared language, offer frameworks focused on race and gender identity, and explore social location and intersectionality. We’ll emphasize a conversation about how we, as facilitators, can center race in our equity work while also honoring the realities of gender diversity and how that might play out in these settings. This will be an opportunity to cultivate a community of practice. We’ll focus on noticing harm as it occurs in group spaces where people hold many different identities. We’ll practice naming and interrupting harm, and discuss how we can create conditions for repair. How we heal and create opportunities for healing will be weaved in throughout our time together, and our final day will focus specifically on individual and collective healing.

We will meet via zoom for two 2-hour sessions each day. Sessions will be recorded for those who aren’t available to attend each live gathering. Because we are fostering a strong community of practice, we expect participants to make every effort to be present for and contribute to the live group dynamics.

DATES & TIMES:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 2022
TWO DAILY SESSIONS: 9-11am and 1-3pm pacific / noon-2pm, 4-6pm eastern